Following Kill Boksoon, director Byun Sung-hyun teams up once again with Netflix for Good News, a high-concept and ambitious black comedy that pulls a few pages straight out of the Dr. Strangelove playbook. Very loosely based on a fascinating real-life story, the film is set in 1970 and concerns a commercial airliner that has been hijacked by Japanese terrorists who divert it to Pyongyang, hoping to join their communist brethren in the hermit kingdom. South Korean Air Force lieutenant Seo Go-myung (Hong Kyung, Hear Me: Our Summer) is recruited by a wily political operative known only as Nobody (played by Kill Boksoon's Sul Kyung-gu) for his daring plan to trick the hijackers into landing the plane in Gimpo Airport in Seoul, which they dress up...
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