Because the film is a fictional story inspired by true events, Ryoo had to choose which real events to highlight, which to encapsulate and which to play down. For example, the film portrays the North Korean delegation as being wary of the South Korean offer to help, when they actually had no choice.
“In the film they spend time together for just over a day,” said Ryoo. “But they actually spent 12 days together at the South Korean embassy.” During his research Ryoo spoke to Han Sin-seong, the South Korean ambassador, played in the story by Kim Yeoon-seok. Those conversations helped him better understand the circumstances from the South Korean perspective, but he could not reach Han’s North Korean counterpart. As part of his research, Ryoo also spoke to Somali students studying in Korea and then to their parents, who actually lived through the war.
“One of the most heartbreaking things for me to film were the scenes regarding the child soldiers,” said Ryoo.” In the beginning you see children playing soccer on the beach, having fun and then in a rundown but very warm school, studying and enjoying the small things in life. But once the civil war erupts they wind up following the adults who order them to hold up guns and they’re in a situation they don’t even comprehend.
When Ryoo learned about the actual escape during his research, he worried that the reality was so extreme it might be hard to convince an audience it actually happened. He decided to use books and sand sacks to protect the cars. The most important question he tackled during the adaptation was to make viewers feel the anxiety and the fear experienced by his characters.
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