![]() Awards and nominations Award ceremonyĪudience Choice Award for Most Popular FilmĢ9th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards In the United Kingdom, the DVD was released on Octofrom Entertainment One. In English-speaking countries, the film was released as Tidal Wave (an incorrect term as such types of waves are actually caused by gravitational influences, not displacement of water). As of 20 September 2009, Haeundae had received a total of 11,301,649 admissions in South Korean theatres. The film was released in South Korea on 22 July 2009. Seong Byeong-suk as Dong-choon's motherĭistribution rights for Haeundae was sold to Hong Kong, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia, Germany, Hungary, France, Quebec, Brazil, the United Kingdom, Australia and Turkey.The movie ends with a scene of Haeundae in ruins but in a hopeful atmosphere. ![]() Man-sik, while cleaning the ruins of Yeon-hee's restaurant, finds the red ribbon, meaning she accepted his proposal. Dong-choon finds out that his mother died and breaks into tears. Yoo-jin and Hwi hug each other before another megatsunami kills them.Īfter the tsunami, a memorial service honors the thousands who died, including Hyeong-sik, Hwi, Yoo-jin, and Man-sik's uncle. Before the helicopter leaves, Hwi tells his daughter that he is her biological father. The two help their daughter get on a crowded rescue helicopter. The elevator Yoo-jin is trapped in floods with water, and she talks in tears to her daughter Ji-min on her phone. He cuts the connected rope and falls into the violent sea. When Hyeong-sik and Joon-ha are together on the rope, Hyeong-sik realizes the rope is about to break, and only one can go up to the helicopter. Hyeong-sik jumps from a rescue helicopter and saves Hee-mi in the sea. Dong-choon awakens on the bridge, but when he tries and fails to light a cigarette and subsequently discards the lighter out of frustration, it falls into petrol leaking from a tanker, causing an explosion that severs the bridge in half, sending shipping containers flying into buildings on the shore. A telephone pole collapses, electrocuting everyone in the water, but Man-sik and Yeon-hee survive. Dong-choon, Seung-hyun, his grandmother and others on the Gwangan Bridge are swept away by the sea. Thousands run for their lives before the wave reaches Haeundae and continues into Busan. A short earthquake (a minor aftershock) hits Busan before the sea starts receding from the shore, causing mass hysteria as people realize a tsunami is coming. Hwi realizes that Busan residents have only 10 minutes to escape. Despite his warnings, the Disaster Prevention Agency assures him that South Korea is at no risk, but a large megatsunami forms because of a landslide near Japan and starts to travel towards Busan, where millions of beachgoers are vacationing. Hwi notices that the Sea of Japan (known as the East Sea in Korea) is displaying similar activity to what was observed in the Indian Ocean five years prior. During the fight, they see a flock of birds flying away. ![]() Man-sik grows furious, thinking that what Dong-choon told Yeon-hee caused her to snub hanging the ribbon and attacks him. Dong-choon tells Man-sik that he told Yeon-hee why her father died several years ago. On the day after, Man-sik sees no ribbon and meets Dong-choon, who was nearby. Yeon-hee says a ribbon hung outside her restaurant the day after means yes. Hee-mi is angered by the "violent" rescue and annoys him by following him around, and the two begin to fall in love.ĭuring the fireworks, Man-sik proposes to Yeon-hee. Hyeong-sik, Man-sik's younger brother, is a lifeguard who rescues Hee-mi. She has a daughter named Ji-min and a new boyfriend Hae-chan but she and her ex do not tell their daughter that Hwi is her birth father as they are worried about how she might react.Ī wealthy college student from Seoul, Hee-mi, accidentally falls into the sea from a yacht. ![]() Geologist Kim Hwi runs into his ex-wife Yoo-jin. Man-sik finally plans to propose to Yeon-hee. Because of this, he avoids getting involved with Yeon-hee, who runs an unlicensed seafood restaurant, despite her attempts to start a relationship.ĭong-choon and Seung-hyun's grandmother team up with Seung-hyun and get involved in illegal activity to earn money, but are caught by police. Man-sik, a local from the Haeundae District of Busan, unexpectedly loses Yeon-hee's father while based on a deep-sea fishing boat in the Indian Ocean during the 2004 tsunami, due to an error in judgement. Billed as South Korea's first disaster film, the film released theatrically on 22 July 2009 and received more than 11 million admissions nationwide. Tidal Wave ( Korean: 해운대 RR: Haeundae) is a 2009 South Korean disaster film directed by Yoon Je-kyoon and starring Sol Kyung-gu, Ha Ji-won, Park Joong-hoon and Uhm Jung-hwa.
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