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''Shiri''[[note]]Originally romanized as "Swiri" on Korean posters before switching to "Shiri" for foreign distribution to better reflect how the word should be pronounced[[/note]] is a 1999 UsefulNotes/{{South Korea}}n action/drama movie directed by Kang Je-gyu and starring Han Suk-kyu, Song Kang-ho, Choi Min-sik and Yunjin Kim
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* BittersweetEnding[=/=]DownerEnding: A mix of both. BittersweetEnding: While Yu was able to save the South Korean president from being killed to prevent another Korean War from taking place, he had to contend with the death of his partner, who was killed during his investigation into the mole's presence in Seoul. [[spoiler:He also learns that his girlfriend was Bang-Hee and was pregnant with his child.]]
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Shiri (or Swiri in Korean) is a 1999 UsefulNotes/{{South Korea}}n action/drama movie directed by Kang Je-gyu, which was the first movie as a tribute to action movies made in Asia, America and Europe as part of a new wave of Korean films. With a budget of [=USD=]$8,500,000 at the time, it was considered by critics to be one of the most expensive movies made in Korea. It starred Han Suk-kyu, Song Kang-ho, Choi Min-sik and Yunjin Kim. The success of the movie would serve as the basis for the Korean spy drama ''Series/{{Iris|2009}}''.
Released in theaters in Korea, it was soon released overseas in an effort to gain an international audience. It was later released in [=DVD=] in the late 1990s and early to mid 2000s. A high definition was released and was aired in South Korea by [=KBS=], but it [[NoExportForYou was never released for the overseas market.]]
Released in theaters in Korea, it was soon released overseas in an effort to gain an international audience. It was later released in [=DVD=] in the late 1990s and early to mid 2000s. A high definition was released and was aired in South Korea by [=KBS=], but it [[NoExportForYou was never released for the overseas market.]]
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This film was at the crest of a new wave in Korean cinema, as local filmmakers became more ambitious and sought to create projects at a larger scale. With a budget of [=USD=]$8,500,000, it was the most-expensive Korean film made up to that point and also Korea's first true blockbuster, with crowds lining up to see it. It was also the first Korean film to make a concerted push into foreign markets and started drawing international attention to the Korean film industry.
The success of the movie would serve as the basis for the Korean spy drama ''Series/{{Iris|2009}}''.
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* CaliforniaDoubling: North Korean scenes were filmed in South Korea. Averted for South Korean scenes.
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* ProductPlacement: You can see several Korean-made vehicles, including Kia, Hyundai and Daelim (A Korean motorbike maker). Samsung logos are also seen throughout the movie. You can also spot some Ford and Chevrolet vehicles also. A Bennigan's restaurant is also seen.
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* ProductPlacement: You can see several Korean-made vehicles, The film was produced by Samsung and partly funded by SK through Speed 011 (a cellphone service) so their logos are prominently displayed, including Kia, Hyundai and Daelim (A Korean motorbike maker). a shot of a flying helicopter festooned in Samsung logos are also seen throughout the movie. You can also spot some Ford logos, all characters using cellphones with Speed 011 branding prominently displayed and Chevrolet vehicles also. A Bennigan's restaurant is also seen.a running gunfight taking place in front of a large Speed 011 billboard.
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Shiri (or Swiri in Korean) is a 1999 UsefulNotes/{{South Korea}}n action/drama movie directed by Kang Je-gyu, which was the first movie as a tribute to action movies made in Asia, America and Europe as part of a new wave of Korean films. With a budget of [=USD=]$8,500,000 at the time, it was considered by critics to be one of the most expensive movies made in Korea. It starred Han Suk-kyu, Song Kang-ho, Choi Min-sik and Yunjin Kim. The success of the movie would serve as the basis for the Korean spy drama ''Series/Iris2009''.
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Shiri (or Swiri in Korean) is a 1999 UsefulNotes/{{South Korea}}n action/drama movie directed by Kang Je-gyu, which was the first movie as a tribute to action movies made in Asia, America and Europe as part of a new wave of Korean films. With a budget of [=USD=]$8,500,000 at the time, it was considered by critics to be one of the most expensive movies made in Korea. It starred Han Suk-kyu, Song Kang-ho, Choi Min-sik and Yunjin Kim. The success of the movie would serve as the basis for the Korean spy drama Series/{{Iris}}.
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* ContemptibleCover: The North American version features a nearly naked Asian woman with a gun. This does not reference anything within the film itself.
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* ShowedTheirWork: [=ROK=] Army uniforms, except for being armed with [=M16s=]. Could be justified that armorers were not able to secure the [=K2s=] needed.
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* WilliamTelling: In her TrainingFromHell, a North Korean assassin must walk at a steady pace past the assembled ranks of her classmates, firing a pistol past their heads at targets in the back row.
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* CatapultNightmare: The movie partially starts when Bang-Hee assassinates Yu and Lee in a Bennigan's restaurant in Seoul. The former wakes up and sees that he was in an [=OP=] office.
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* CatapultNightmare: The movie partially starts when Bang-Hee assassinates Yu and Lee in a Bennigan's restaurant in Seoul.UsefulNotes/{{Seoul}}. The former wakes up and sees that he was in an [=OP=] office.
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Shiri (or Swiri in Korean) is a 1999 UsefulNotes/{{South Korea}}n action/drama movie directed by Kang Je-gyu, which was the first movie as a tribute to action movies made in Asia, America and Europe as part of a new wave of Korean films. With a budget of [=USD=]$8,500,000 at the time, it was considered by critics to be one of the most expensive movies made in Korea. It starred Han Suk-kyu, Song Kang-ho, Choi Min-sik and Yunjin Kim. The success of the movie would serve as the basis for the Korean spy drama Series/{{Iris}}.
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* KansasCityShuffle: [[spoiler:Park's team was after the CTX so that they can bomb the stadium and kill off top North/South Korean politicians. They fooled OP by assumign that they just wanna wreck havoc in Seoul.]]
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* KansasCityShuffle: [[spoiler:Park's team was after the CTX so that they can bomb the stadium and kill off top North/South Korean politicians. They fooled OP by assumign assuming that they just wanna wreck havoc in Seoul.]]
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* DreamIntro: The film starts when OP agents Yu and Lee were having lunch when they were assassinated in broad daylight by North Korean commando Lee Bang-Hee, resulting in a CatapultNightmare for the former when he realizes that he's still at work.
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->''"You know the fish named [[TitleDrop Shiri]]? It's a [native Korean] fish, living in crystal streams. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Though they're separated with the country divided, someday they'll reunite in the same stream.]]"''
-->-- '''[[BigBad Park Mu-young]]''' given a partial TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to '''[[TheHero Yu Jong-won]]''' on the theme of Korean unification.
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->''"You know the fish named [[TitleDrop Shiri]]? Shiri? It's a [native Korean] fish, living in crystal streams. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Though they're separated with the country divided, someday they'll reunite in the same stream.]]"''
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-->--'''[[BigBad Park Mu-young]]''' '''Park Mu-young''' given a partial TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to '''[[TheHero Yu Jong-won]]''' '''Yu Jong-won''' on the theme of Korean unification.
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* GenreSavvy: [=OP=] assigns Yu and Lee to go with the convoy carrying the CTX, knowing that Park would hit it. [[DefiedTrope They never made it in time.]] But even then, the military had at least placed hidden cameras to catch the culprits in case the convoy was taken out.
** [[spoiler:Park wasn't able to pull off the masquerade as a ROK soldier since the officer in charge of the convoy noted that he didn't receive orders of a checkpoint, but he spotted that he had long hair, which would be punishable in RealLife.]]
** [[spoiler:Park wasn't able to pull off the masquerade as a ROK soldier since the officer in charge of the convoy noted that he didn't receive orders of a checkpoint, but he spotted that he had long hair, which would be punishable in RealLife.]]
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* ContemptibleCover: The North American version features a nearly naked Asian woman with a gun. This does not reference anything within the film itself.
* DeadlyGraduation: North Korean commando recruits going through a hellish training program and initiation. In one test, the cadets are made to bayonet a field full of civilians who are tied to stakes. One man shows remorse afterwards and is killed. In another, cadets are paired up and each given a disassembled pistol. The first one to correctly assemble it must shoot their partner.
* DeadlyGraduation: North Korean commando recruits going through a hellish training program and initiation. In one test, the cadets are made to bayonet a field full of civilians who are tied to stakes. One man shows remorse afterwards and is killed. In another, cadets are paired up and each given a disassembled pistol. The first one to correctly assemble it must shoot their partner.
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->''"You know the fish named [[TitleDrop Shiri]]? It's a [native Korean] fish, living in crystal streams. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Though they're separated with the country divided, someday they'll reunite in the same stream.]]"''
-->-- '''[[BigBad Park Mu-young]]''' given a partial TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to '''[[TheHero Yu Jong-won]]''' on the theme of Korean unification.
Shiri (or Swiri in Korean) is a 1999 action/drama movie directed by Kang Je-gyu, which was the first movie as a tribute to action movies made in Asia, America and Europe as part of a new wave of Korean films. With a budget of [=USD=]$8,500,000 at the time, it was considered by critics to be one of the most expensive movies made in Korea. It starred Han Suk-kyu, Song Kang-ho, Choi Min-sik and Yunjin Kim. The success of the movie would serve as the basis for the Korean spy drama Series/{{Iris}}.
Released in theaters in Korea, it was soon released overseas in an effort to gain an international audience. It was later released in [=DVD=] in the late 1990s and early to mid 2000s. A high definition was released and was aired in South Korea by [=KBS=], but it [[NoExportForYou never released for the overseas market.]]
In 1992, the Korean People's Army recruited a promising soldier named Lee Bang-Hee, who was then trained by the Ground Force's elite 8th Special Forces Unit. She gets deployed covertly to South Korea, where she plays a key role [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous by using her special forces training to take out several prominent South Korean scientists, defense officials and politicians throughout the mid 1990s.]] [[GovernmentAgencyofFiction Operation Center]], hot on her tail, investigated a promising lead in 1996 before the trail went cold.
In 1998, [=OP=] gets a lead when a [=CI=], who turns to be an arms dealer, was assassinated by a mysterious sniper. South Korean law enforcement confirms that Bang-Hee has resurfaced under orders from Pyongyang. [=OP=] agents Yu Jong-won and Lee Jang-gil investigate the [=CI=]'s death as their first major case in years. But as they continue, the two agents get wind of a plot by [[RogueAgent renegade North Korean commandos]] led by Park Mu-young, a seasoned North Korean commando and officer in the same unit Hee is in, being involved in a [[FarEastAsianTerrorists terror plot to take out North and South Korean politicians in a North/South Korean soccer friendship game]] by using a [[TimeBomb prototype liquid bomb called CTX.]]
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!The film contains examples of:
* ActionPrologue: The movie starts when prospective North Korean commando recruits go in and do their training by killing political prisoners.
* AnyoneCanDie: It happens in the middle of the movie. [[spoiler:Not even Lee is spared from being killed.]]
* ArcWords: "Goodbye".
* BigDamnHeroes: [=OP=] tac teams led by another [=OP=] agent arrived in time to save Yu from being killed by Park and his team in the stadium's control room.
* BittersweetEnding[=/=]DownerEnding: A mix of both. While Yu was able to save the South Korean president from being killed to prevent another Korean War from taking place, he had to contend with the death of his partner, who was killed during his investigation into the mole's presence in Seoul. [[spoiler:He also learns that his girlfriend was Bang-Hee and was pregnant with his child.]]
* CaliforniaDoubling: North Korean scenes were filmed in South Korea. Averted for South Korean scenes.
* CatapultNightmare: The movie partially starts when Bang-Hee assassinates Yu and Lee in a Bennigan's restaurant in Seoul. The former wakes up and sees that he was in an [=OP=] office.
* CodeName: Shiri, aside from being used as a TitleDrop, also served as the name for the terror plot in Seoul.
* DrivingQuestion: In-universe, [=OP=] wants to know why [[ColdSniper Hee is in Seoul conducting terror attacks on and off.]]
* EscortMission: Yu and Lee were assigned to go with the convoy. [[FromBadToWorse But they never made in time since Park's team not only ambushed the convoy, but they also secured the CTX.]]
* FarEastAsianTerrorists: [[spoiler:Eventually the movie gets into this when OP realizes that the North Korean commandos were not acting under orders from Pyongyang.]]
* FastRoping: Yu and Lee do this from an [=OP=] chopper to the bridge where the [=ROK=] Army convoy was ambushed.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Yu receives a pair of fish called Kissingurami, being told that if one of them dies, the other one will too. [[spoiler:It plays a big clue as to who is the real enemy responsible for spying on OP ops and leaking sensitive info to Park.]]
* GenreSavvy: [=OP=] assigns Yu and Lee to go with the convoy carrying the CTX, knowing that Park would hit it. [[DefiedTrope They never made it in time.]] But even then, the military had at least placed hidden cameras to catch the culprits in case the convoy was taken out.
** [[spoiler:Park wasn't able to pull off the masquerade as a ROK soldier since the officer in charge of the convoy noted that he didn't receive orders of a checkpoint, but he spotted that he had long hair, which would be punishable in RealLife.]]
* ItMakesSenseInContext: During a phone conversation between Park and Yu, the former talks about the significance of a Korean fish species named [[TitleDrop Shiri]]. See the quote above the page for more details.
* KansasCityShuffle: [[spoiler:Park's team was after the CTX so that they can bomb the stadium and kill off top North/South Korean politicians. They fooled OP by assumign that they just wanna wreck havoc in Seoul.]]
* ProductPlacement: You can see several Korean-made vehicles, including Kia, Hyundai and Daelim (A Korean motorbike maker). Samsung logos are also seen throughout the movie. You can also spot some Ford and Chevrolet vehicles also. A Bennigan's restaurant is also seen.
* RedShirtArmy: South Korean troops sent in to guard the CTX convoy. To be fair, they were taken by surprise [[DressingAsTheEnemy since Park's team was dressed up as South Korean soldiers too.]]
** At times, [=OP=] tac teams alongside [=SWAT=] units, although the former [[TookALevelInBadAss became better in the end when they were able to take down two of Park's subordinates during the stadium raid.]]
* RaceAgainstTheClock: Played with in terms of setting off and detonating the CTX.
* ShowedTheirWork: [=ROK=] Army uniforms, except for being armed with [=M16s=]. Could be justified that armorers were not able to secure the [=K2s=] needed.
** The uniform and gear of [=SWAT=] officers are also depicted correctly.
** Near the end, Yu talks to a girl in a hospital who explained that someone she knew [[spoiler:who turns to be Hyun aka Bang-Hee]] went to Japan to have plastic surgery done. Japan is another country where North Korean intelligence agents and commandos are known to be present aside from South Korea, according to Japanese law enforcement/intelligence agencies. [[TheDreaded Their presence alone is a major security problem]], having been responsible for kidnapping Japanese nationals during the Cold War.
* SWATTeam: The Korean [=SWAT=] unit is deployed to help out [=OP=] agents. Unfortunately at times, they [[RedShirtArmy serve to be killed by Park's team.]]
** Averted with [=OP=]'s tac teams, when they were able to subdue the rogue commandos from detonating the bomb even as they sustain casualties.
* TakeThat: When Yu is held captive by Park, he ranted in a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech speech that the division of the Koreas was caused by Kim Il-Sung and the Korean Worker's Party.]]
* TimeBomb: CTX, developed by South Korea as (in 1990s standards) the next-generation bomb made by the Korea Energy Development Lab. Its a SuperPrototype with a few units made that it can defeat current methods of detecting explosives. The only way to tell it apart from water is to use light and heat. When you see a red sphere forming in said liquid, [[OhCrap expect the contents to explode in a few minutes.]]
* TitleDrop: Mentioned many times in the story.
* TheNineties: The movie takes place in 1998, though it initially started in 1992.
* VulnerableConvoy: The [=ROK=] Army convoy consisted of a trailer truck, a jeep and a 4x4 truck carrying armed soldiers. [[RedShirts They didn't last in the ambush.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: When Park phones in with a bomb threat with the first bomb going off a bit earlier than usual, [=OP=] assumes that he and his team are in Seoul to commit terror attacks. [[KansasCityShuffle Turns out that it wasn't their main objective at all.]]
** [=OP=] thinks that Park wants the CTX to be sold to another country, use it as a leverage in future inter-Korean negotiations or to seek asylum in a pro-North Korean country or show the world "proof" that Seoul is building an offensive weapon to be used against them since they want peace. Yu and Lee don't buy it since he knows that the commandos didn't steal the bomb for money or to spoil future peace talks.
--> '''Yu''': If they wanted the money, why CTX? Robbing the Bank of Korea would be much easier.
--> '''Lee''': Why would [Park] spoil the peace conference by using the bomb?
->''"You know the fish named [[TitleDrop Shiri]]? It's a [native Korean] fish, living in crystal streams. [[ItMakesSenseInContext Though they're separated with the country divided, someday they'll reunite in the same stream.]]"''
-->-- '''[[BigBad Park Mu-young]]''' given a partial TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to '''[[TheHero Yu Jong-won]]''' on the theme of Korean unification.
Shiri (or Swiri in Korean) is a 1999 action/drama movie directed by Kang Je-gyu, which was the first movie as a tribute to action movies made in Asia, America and Europe as part of a new wave of Korean films. With a budget of [=USD=]$8,500,000 at the time, it was considered by critics to be one of the most expensive movies made in Korea. It starred Han Suk-kyu, Song Kang-ho, Choi Min-sik and Yunjin Kim. The success of the movie would serve as the basis for the Korean spy drama Series/{{Iris}}.
Released in theaters in Korea, it was soon released overseas in an effort to gain an international audience. It was later released in [=DVD=] in the late 1990s and early to mid 2000s. A high definition was released and was aired in South Korea by [=KBS=], but it [[NoExportForYou never released for the overseas market.]]
In 1992, the Korean People's Army recruited a promising soldier named Lee Bang-Hee, who was then trained by the Ground Force's elite 8th Special Forces Unit. She gets deployed covertly to South Korea, where she plays a key role [[ElitesAreMoreGlamorous by using her special forces training to take out several prominent South Korean scientists, defense officials and politicians throughout the mid 1990s.]] [[GovernmentAgencyofFiction Operation Center]], hot on her tail, investigated a promising lead in 1996 before the trail went cold.
In 1998, [=OP=] gets a lead when a [=CI=], who turns to be an arms dealer, was assassinated by a mysterious sniper. South Korean law enforcement confirms that Bang-Hee has resurfaced under orders from Pyongyang. [=OP=] agents Yu Jong-won and Lee Jang-gil investigate the [=CI=]'s death as their first major case in years. But as they continue, the two agents get wind of a plot by [[RogueAgent renegade North Korean commandos]] led by Park Mu-young, a seasoned North Korean commando and officer in the same unit Hee is in, being involved in a [[FarEastAsianTerrorists terror plot to take out North and South Korean politicians in a North/South Korean soccer friendship game]] by using a [[TimeBomb prototype liquid bomb called CTX.]]
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!The film contains examples of:
* ActionPrologue: The movie starts when prospective North Korean commando recruits go in and do their training by killing political prisoners.
* AnyoneCanDie: It happens in the middle of the movie. [[spoiler:Not even Lee is spared from being killed.]]
* ArcWords: "Goodbye".
* BigDamnHeroes: [=OP=] tac teams led by another [=OP=] agent arrived in time to save Yu from being killed by Park and his team in the stadium's control room.
* BittersweetEnding[=/=]DownerEnding: A mix of both. While Yu was able to save the South Korean president from being killed to prevent another Korean War from taking place, he had to contend with the death of his partner, who was killed during his investigation into the mole's presence in Seoul. [[spoiler:He also learns that his girlfriend was Bang-Hee and was pregnant with his child.]]
* CaliforniaDoubling: North Korean scenes were filmed in South Korea. Averted for South Korean scenes.
* CatapultNightmare: The movie partially starts when Bang-Hee assassinates Yu and Lee in a Bennigan's restaurant in Seoul. The former wakes up and sees that he was in an [=OP=] office.
* CodeName: Shiri, aside from being used as a TitleDrop, also served as the name for the terror plot in Seoul.
* DrivingQuestion: In-universe, [=OP=] wants to know why [[ColdSniper Hee is in Seoul conducting terror attacks on and off.]]
* EscortMission: Yu and Lee were assigned to go with the convoy. [[FromBadToWorse But they never made in time since Park's team not only ambushed the convoy, but they also secured the CTX.]]
* FarEastAsianTerrorists: [[spoiler:Eventually the movie gets into this when OP realizes that the North Korean commandos were not acting under orders from Pyongyang.]]
* FastRoping: Yu and Lee do this from an [=OP=] chopper to the bridge where the [=ROK=] Army convoy was ambushed.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Yu receives a pair of fish called Kissingurami, being told that if one of them dies, the other one will too. [[spoiler:It plays a big clue as to who is the real enemy responsible for spying on OP ops and leaking sensitive info to Park.]]
* GenreSavvy: [=OP=] assigns Yu and Lee to go with the convoy carrying the CTX, knowing that Park would hit it. [[DefiedTrope They never made it in time.]] But even then, the military had at least placed hidden cameras to catch the culprits in case the convoy was taken out.
** [[spoiler:Park wasn't able to pull off the masquerade as a ROK soldier since the officer in charge of the convoy noted that he didn't receive orders of a checkpoint, but he spotted that he had long hair, which would be punishable in RealLife.]]
* ItMakesSenseInContext: During a phone conversation between Park and Yu, the former talks about the significance of a Korean fish species named [[TitleDrop Shiri]]. See the quote above the page for more details.
* KansasCityShuffle: [[spoiler:Park's team was after the CTX so that they can bomb the stadium and kill off top North/South Korean politicians. They fooled OP by assumign that they just wanna wreck havoc in Seoul.]]
* ProductPlacement: You can see several Korean-made vehicles, including Kia, Hyundai and Daelim (A Korean motorbike maker). Samsung logos are also seen throughout the movie. You can also spot some Ford and Chevrolet vehicles also. A Bennigan's restaurant is also seen.
* RedShirtArmy: South Korean troops sent in to guard the CTX convoy. To be fair, they were taken by surprise [[DressingAsTheEnemy since Park's team was dressed up as South Korean soldiers too.]]
** At times, [=OP=] tac teams alongside [=SWAT=] units, although the former [[TookALevelInBadAss became better in the end when they were able to take down two of Park's subordinates during the stadium raid.]]
* RaceAgainstTheClock: Played with in terms of setting off and detonating the CTX.
* ShowedTheirWork: [=ROK=] Army uniforms, except for being armed with [=M16s=]. Could be justified that armorers were not able to secure the [=K2s=] needed.
** The uniform and gear of [=SWAT=] officers are also depicted correctly.
** Near the end, Yu talks to a girl in a hospital who explained that someone she knew [[spoiler:who turns to be Hyun aka Bang-Hee]] went to Japan to have plastic surgery done. Japan is another country where North Korean intelligence agents and commandos are known to be present aside from South Korea, according to Japanese law enforcement/intelligence agencies. [[TheDreaded Their presence alone is a major security problem]], having been responsible for kidnapping Japanese nationals during the Cold War.
* SWATTeam: The Korean [=SWAT=] unit is deployed to help out [=OP=] agents. Unfortunately at times, they [[RedShirtArmy serve to be killed by Park's team.]]
** Averted with [=OP=]'s tac teams, when they were able to subdue the rogue commandos from detonating the bomb even as they sustain casualties.
* TakeThat: When Yu is held captive by Park, he ranted in a [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech speech that the division of the Koreas was caused by Kim Il-Sung and the Korean Worker's Party.]]
* TimeBomb: CTX, developed by South Korea as (in 1990s standards) the next-generation bomb made by the Korea Energy Development Lab. Its a SuperPrototype with a few units made that it can defeat current methods of detecting explosives. The only way to tell it apart from water is to use light and heat. When you see a red sphere forming in said liquid, [[OhCrap expect the contents to explode in a few minutes.]]
* TitleDrop: Mentioned many times in the story.
* TheNineties: The movie takes place in 1998, though it initially started in 1992.
* VulnerableConvoy: The [=ROK=] Army convoy consisted of a trailer truck, a jeep and a 4x4 truck carrying armed soldiers. [[RedShirts They didn't last in the ambush.]]
* WrongGenreSavvy: When Park phones in with a bomb threat with the first bomb going off a bit earlier than usual, [=OP=] assumes that he and his team are in Seoul to commit terror attacks. [[KansasCityShuffle Turns out that it wasn't their main objective at all.]]
** [=OP=] thinks that Park wants the CTX to be sold to another country, use it as a leverage in future inter-Korean negotiations or to seek asylum in a pro-North Korean country or show the world "proof" that Seoul is building an offensive weapon to be used against them since they want peace. Yu and Lee don't buy it since he knows that the commandos didn't steal the bomb for money or to spoil future peace talks.
--> '''Yu''': If they wanted the money, why CTX? Robbing the Bank of Korea would be much easier.
--> '''Lee''': Why would [Park] spoil the peace conference by using the bomb?
