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As One	comment	As One (코리아, "Korea") is a 2012 film from South Korea, directed by Moon Hyun-sung. It tells the Real Life story of the unified 1991 Korean team that competed at that World Table Tennis Championships.During a thaw in relations between the two Koreas, the powers that be elect to combine the North Korean and South Korean table tennis teams into a single unified team. The South Korean players are none too happy about being paired with the North Korean players and losing playing time, while the North Koreans are uncomfortable with the new arrangement as well. Specifically, star South Korean ping-pong player Hyun Jung-hwa is incensed at being paired up with her North Korean rival, Ri Bun-hi (played by Bae Doona of The Host and Cloud Atlas). Eventually, the players gain each other's trust and form bonds of friendship, as they travel to Japan to play in the World Table Tennis Championships and face off against the powerful Chinese ping-pong team.
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As One / int_1c79ae8c	comment	Those Two Guys: The Korean broadcasters calling the matches, who get very enthusiastic and provide some comic relief.
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As One / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
As One / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: All the players are this at the end, after they have bonded, visited amusement parks together, and beaten the Chinese in the climactic match.
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As One / int_2a3006e5	type	State Sec
As One / int_2a3006e5	comment	State Sec: The intimidating North Korean guards that constantly shadow their team's players. Subverted when the guards are shown cheering the South Korean players, only to sheepishly snap back to attention.
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As One / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
As One / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: The unified team wins the women's championship. But then the players are separated, never to see each other again.
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As One / int_4a84ef8d	type	Big Game
As One / int_4a84ef8d	comment	Big Game: The climax is the final of the 1991 World Championships against China.
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As One / int_4f995f60	type	Train-Station Goodbye
As One / int_4f995f60	comment	Train-Station Goodbye: With a bus, not a train. Otherwise the trope is played pretty straight, as Bun-hi boards the bus, Jung-hwa follows her, Jung-hwa trots after the bus while she says goodbye, and Jung-hwa hands Bun-hi her father's ring.
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As One / int_680aee2f	type	International Showdown by Proxy
As One / int_680aee2f	comment	International Showdown by Proxy: Inverted, as the North and South Korean teams are united as a gesture of goodwill between the countries.
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As One / int_76b15b5b	type	Passionate Sports Girl
As One / int_76b15b5b	comment	Passionate Sports Girl: Jung-hwa, Bun-hi, and all their teammates on the Korean women's team.
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As One / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
As One / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: There must be a men's competition, as both countries have several male players on their teams. None of the men's competition is shown and the film never mentions how the men's team did.
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As One / int_a8982539	type	Gray Rain of Depression
As One / int_a8982539	comment	Gray Rain of Depression: Seen after the North Korean authorities pull their players from the team and confine them to their hotel rooms.
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As One / int_a90fff3	type	Based on a True Story
As One / int_a90fff3	comment	Based on a True Story: More or less accurate, it seems.
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As One / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
As One / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: The head coach of the unified team, a North Korean, gives one of these right before the finals, motivating his players to work as a team.
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As One / int_b0a0108d	type	All Up to You
As One / int_b0a0108d	comment	All Up to You: The North Korean head coach, a stern taskmaster, says this to the South Korean coach (who is #2 on the unified team, and much more the easygoing type) after the head coach gets ejected for protesting some dubious referee calls.
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As One / int_b77808f2	type	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
As One / int_b77808f2	comment	"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue: A postscript gives info on what happened to the main characters, as well as including photos of the real people the story is based on.
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As One / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
As One / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Starts out this way as the North and South Korean players are forced together.
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As One / int_c5d50cb0	type	Opposing Sports Team
As One / int_c5d50cb0	comment	Opposing Sports Team: The Chinese women's ping pong team is scowling and mean-spirited in classic Opposing Sports Team fashion.
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As One / int_d058677e	type	Amusement Park
As One / int_d058677e	comment	Amusement Park: The team goes to an amusement park as a bonding activity. This gets the northerners in trouble with State Sec, which is paranoid about the northern players getting exposed to capitalist luxuries.
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As One / int_e4d98039	type	Down to the Last Play
As One / int_e4d98039	comment	Down to the Last Play: Basically impossible in ping-pong, which requires winning a match by at least two points, meaning that there can never be a winner-take-all point. But it's still played that way in this film. The final rally of the championship doubles match is shot very dramatically and stylistically, with a spotlight on the table as the audience fades to black, and in super slow-motion.
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As One / int_e596f27b	type	Star-Crossed Lovers
As One / int_e596f27b	comment	Star-Crossed Lovers: A North Korean male player and one of the South Korean females fall in love, in what they both know is a doomed romance since the North Korean guy has to return home.
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As One / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
As One / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: Some very, very obvious product placement for Korean sports drink Pocari Sweat (no, really, that's what it's called), including multiple shots of the Pocari Sweat vending machine in the locker room as the coach is giving speeches.
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As One / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
As One / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: Body doubles were not used, as the actresses trained for months in order to portray competitive ping-pong players. Actress Bae Doona, who is right-handed, learned to play lefty in order to portray lefthanded table tennis player Ri Bun-hi.
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