Jong-hak has been living a diligent life both as a civil servant in charge of counseling North Korean defectors at the National Intelligence Service and as a spy sent to the South. He only concentrates on his jobs, not even getting married or hanging out with friends. But he gets shocked when he finds out all his reports were kept in a storage and were not sent to the North at all. The reason he was so distressed was not because his faith was betrayed, but because the job he ...more

Jong-hak has been living a diligent life both as a civil servant in charge of counseling North Korean defectors at the National Intelligence Service and as a spy sent to the South. He only concentrates on his jobs, not even getting married or hanging out with friends. But he gets shocked when he finds out all his reports were kept in a storage and were not sent to the North at all. The reason he was so distressed was not because his faith was betrayed, but because the job he has done so far did not result in anything. Reports he believed to connect him with his country for last 20 years were nothing more than silent echoes. He does not care about the fact that many lives that could have been killed due to guilt by association were saved. What oppresses him now is the sense of isolation and no longer having a reason to live. (KIM Kyung-tae) less