Default (2018) on Netflix
Han Shi-hyun heads monetary policy at the Bank of Korea and joins a crisis team as foreign reserves run out. A factory owner and a young analyst face the same week.
- Netflix3.6/5
- IMDb6.7/101,758 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes78%
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Plot summary
In 1997, three stories run alongside each other as South Korea's economy fails. Han Shi-hyun is in charge of monetary policy at the Bank of Korea, and her report concludes that the country's foreign reserves will run out within a week. An emergency meeting of top government officials follows over how to keep the economy from collapsing. Gap-su owns a factory that wins an order to supply metal bowls to a large department store, which settles the deal with a note promising payment at a later date, so he is exposed if the store cannot pay. Yoon Jung-hak, a young financial analyst, hears radio reports of families selling their homes for less than they are worth after small businesses go bankrupt, and he sets up an investment fund that gains if the Korean economy falls.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Default (2018)
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- Default was the first Korean film to take the IMF financial crisis as its main subject, and it stars Kim Hye-soo, Yoo Ah-in, Huh Joon-ho, Jo Woo-jin and Vincent Cassel.
- Default drew 1,573,441 viewers in its first weekend in South Korean cinemas and became the highest November opening in the history of the Korean box office.
