South Korea Synopsis
동창생
“He'll stop nothing to save her.”
The son of a North Korean spy decides to follow in his father's footsteps to protect his little sister. After his father's botched espionage mission, North Korean Myung-hoon and his young sister Hye-in are sent to a labor prison camp. In order to save his sister's life, Myung-hoon volunteers to become a spy and infiltrates the South as a teenage defector. While attending high school in the South, he meets another girl named Hye-in, and rescues her when she comes under attack.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Commitment. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Drama + Action in South Korea
114 South Korea titles in our catalog blend the Drama and Action genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Commitment itself).
The 2012–2014 South Korea Window
Commitment holds position #54 of 183 South Korea films in the 2012–2014 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s South Korea Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in South Korea, 719 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Commitment premiered alongside 56 others.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 56 other South Korea films in 2013.
The 573rd South Korea title from South Korea we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1955).
Our South Korea catalog contains 1,397 titles in total (931 films).
Audience Engagement
106 audience reviews — more than 84% of South Korea films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 87th percentile among South Korea films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Commitment, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- secret mission · 2
- government assassin · 1
- bullying · 27
- motorcycle · 22
- secret agent · 16
- murder · 155
- high school · 88
- assassin · 47
- spy · 46
- inter-korean relations · 32
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #445 of 1,397 South Korea films indexed here (68th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.4 points above the South Korea average of 6.9/10.
Among South Korea Drama productions specifically: #312 of 868 (top 36%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | South Korea |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Korean |
| Production Companies | Golden Fish Pictures, The LAMP |
| Runtime | 1h 53m |
| Release Date | November 5, 2013 |
| IMDb | tt3144098 |