A Story of Hong Gil-dong

The bandit hero of the old novel, drawn as a feature when Korean animation had barely started. A hidden gem even inside Korea.

The first Korean animated feature. A restoration circulates from the Korean animation archive alongside the classic-film channel.

Shin Dong-heon · 67 min · Folk adventure

Station score 7.3 / 10 · an editorial mark, not a scraped rating.

Subtitles: The restoration upload is aimed at international viewers. Subtitle tracks vary; the picture is the archive’s.

Restoration published on YouTube under the Korean Film Archive’s classic-animation work.