It is an old movie from 2012, and it is about table tennis.

The movie is inspiring and

worth a while to watch.

It is a true story about the first time north korea and south korea combined to form a

team to compete at the 1991, world table tennis championship in china, japan.

It was written based on many interviews with Hyun Jung Hwa (played by Ha Ji Won in

the movie) and coach for the Korean national team.

In the movie Table tennis player Hyun Jung-Hwa (Ha-Ji-Won) wins silver medals, but

always comes up short in the gold medal matches against a rival Chinese table tennis

player. One month prior to the 1991 World Table Tennis Championships in Chiba, Hyun

Jung-Hwa hears that a single Korean table tennis will be formed from South and North

Korea. The South Korean players and its coach oppose the idea.

Despite the opposition, the united Korean table tennis team is formed.Players from

South and North Korea meet at a training camp in Chiba, Japan. They are forced to

become one team, but from their practice routines, to how they talk and how they live all

cause clashes. Top North Korean table tennis player Lee Boon-Hee (Bae-Doo-Na) and

Hyun Jung-Hwa enter a war of nerves. The World Table Tennis Championships is fast

approaching, but the Korean team can't even get along. Finally, the 1991 World Table

Tennis Championships begin.

Beijing, 11th Asian Games, autumn 1990. In the women's table tennis competition,
North Korea's Ri Bun-hui (Bae Doona) faces off against South Korea's Hyun Jung-hwa
(Ha Ji-won); Bun-hui loses, but Jung-hwa is beaten by China's Deng Yaping (Kim
Jae-hwa), who takes the gold. Six months later, in Busan, Jung-hwa is finishing her
preparation for the 41st World Table Tennis Championships, to be held in Chiba, Japan;
aside from caring for her father in the hospital, she is under huge local pressure to win a
gold medal this time. Just prior to leaving, it is announced that, following a North-South
Summit, the North and South Korean teams will compete as a single unit for the first
time, under a newly designed Korean Unification Flag and with a North Korean, Jo
Nam-poong (Kim Eung-soo), as its chief trainer. In Chiba, quarrels and fights break out
between the two, mutually suspicious sides, exacerbated by young Northern hothead
Choi Kyung-sub (Lee Jong-suk) and Southern joker Oh Doo-man (Oh Jung-se).
Jung-hwa shares a room with fellow player Choi Yeon-jung (Choi Yoon-young), who
fancies Kyung-sub. Bun-hui rooms with Yu Sun-bok (Han Ye-ri) who suffers badly from
competition nerves. During the trials for the women's team, Sun-bok performs poorly
and steps down in favor of Jung-hwa for the good of the team. Now paired together,
Jung-hwa and Bun-hui settle their differences as the players finally start to bond. As
they train for 46 days, game-by-game, the two find a budding friendship. But as the
finals versus the Chinese team looms, the Koreans' unity is threatened from another
direction. When political winds change again and just as suddenly an announcement is
made to disband team Korea, the two young women must prove to their people and the
world that teamwork can outshine the dark shadows of a painful history.