1. The Korean soldiers who did ideological work for the Lee Jintai brothers and the recruits and asked them to actively oppose the communists were North Koreans.
After Japan surrendered, about 1.8 million Japanese collaborators, landlords, Christians and their families fled from the north and even northeast China to the south. The main pillar of the Rhee Seung-man regime is refugees from the north, except for the 40,000 former Japanese soldiers and policemen of Korean origin. According to the "Korean War" (compiled by the Japanese Society for Research and Popularization of Land Warfare History), when the People's Army captured Seoul, 80% of those who fled south with Lee Seung-man were North Koreans.
These "Vietnamese" (people who fled from North Korea) were an important source of military service for the Korean army at that time. Unlike many ordinary South Korean soldiers who are demoralized and sympathetic to the left, these people hate communism and are particularly brave in fighting.
If you watch more Korean movies that reflect the Korean War, you will find that those "heroes"/male protagonists either don't "report their household registration". When it comes to household registration, they are probably "Northerners".
For example, in the "Three Great Wars between South and North Korea" series, "Seoul Recapture" (this is a Japanese translation, copied when the Chinese pirated version was introduced, the original name is "War Testimony"), the Korean soldiers who escorted the heroine to flee south (depending on the appearance time) On the first male protagonist) at the very beginning, he claimed to be a "northern". When he and the female protagonist were sheltering from the rain in a ruined temple, they happened to run into a group of People’s Army soldiers, and one of them happened to recognize him as "Reactionaries" (the son of his mother's maid, he called him "Young Master" as soon as he spoke)... So the Korean soldier of North Korean origin died "heroically" soon... .. In
"Surprising Assault", all 6 Korean special forces are North Koreans and were parachuted to their hometown to perform special missions. One of them also killed the village cadres who occupied his wife...
"Taebaek Mountains" In "," the leader of the "repression team" that suppressed the local left-wing guerrillas in South Korea, he said, "My father is a big landlord in the Yellow Sea (in North Korea) who knows no one..." The
Lee Jin-tae brothers were forced to join the army. Their morale with some other recruits is very low, and they don't want to fight. So an army officer arranged for someone to come out and claim that "family members have been killed by the Communist Party."
At that time, most of the people who could be "killed" by the Communist Party were the children of North Korean landlords. Obviously, that person was a North Korean.
In addition, at about the 29th minute in the film, the Korean soldiers introduced themselves to each other, and another Korean soldier said that his "hometown is North Korea."
2. The 15-year-old soldier of the People’s Army who was killed in the first large-scale battle (night attack on the People’s Army position) was a Korean.
As mentioned earlier, when the People's Army captured Seoul, 80% of those who fled south with Lee Seung-bang were North Koreans. As for the locals in South Korea, they have a "warm welcome" to the People's Army. Jeollanam-do and other places are "red bases", and 80% of the local Koreans are pro-communist.
During the South Korean People’s Army, more than 40,000 Koreans joined the People’s Army, many of whom were 15-year-olds. Judging from the situation reflected in Korean war movies such as "Seoul Recapture" and "Nakdonggang Battle", these young soldiers are all Koreans. Obviously, the young soldier in "Flying Tai Chi Flag" is also a Korean.
The same example is the little leather cleaner (seems to be 15 years old) in "Flying the Tai Chi Flag", a fellow of Li Jintai's brother in Seoul, who was killed by the Korean army when the volunteers came over.
3. In "Flying the Tai Chi Flag", it was a North Korean who killed Lee Young Soon.
The "Vietnamese" (North Korean political refugees) hated communism, not only fighting bravely, but also killing pro-communist civilians in South Korea particularly fiercely.
In addition to participating in the regular army, they also actively participated in the "Anti-Communist Youth League", carried out "white terror" against all parts of the South, and wantonly raped and killed left-wing family members. In the first two years of the organization's establishment, except for a few local gangsters in South Korea, the rest were basically North Korean. It is more famous as the "Northwest Youth Association" on Jeju Island-although Jeju Island is in the southwest of the Korean Peninsula, the members of this organization are basically North Korean political refugees from the northwest of the Korean Peninsula.
It was the "Anti-Communist Youth League" who killed Li Yingshun in "Flying Tai Chi Flag". Since the domestic Chinese subtitles are translated from English subtitles, "团" and "alliance" in English are the same word, so the Chinese subtitles are translated as "Anti-Communist Alliance", and some translators directly translate it as "Gendarmerie" according to their own imagination. Obviously it was influenced by the abominable "Japanese Gendarmerie" in domestic anti-Japanese film and television dramas.
I think very few Chinese viewers would have thought that those who are actively anti-Communist and particularly loyal to the "Republic of Korea" turned out to be mostly North Koreans.
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