So the old man in the beginning is Jin-seok, and the body is Jin-tae's. That being the case, why do the people doing the excavations insist that the remains are Jin-seok's? I was expecting to see some resolution on this.
shareThe Pen.
shareBecause the pen that Jin Tae bought for Jin Seok had his name on it, and Jin Seok gave the pen to Jin Tae to hold on to until the battle was over and he came back alive and so the people that the pen belonged to Jin Tae.
shareyou guys got it wrong, he is referring to the mistake the excavationists at the beggining make when they inform Jin Seok that they had found Jin Tae's body, but it wasn't his body. Not until the end of the movie did they find the actual body. But as to why they made the mistake, maybe DNA matchup was identical or soemthing. Or it was just a mistake. Or possibly even a guy with the same name (which soudns the most reasonable).
Do not speak- unless it improves on silence.
it's the pen. they dug up the body and their was the pen there.
shareYou're an idiot.
shareNO, amazing_kiss16's explanation was right.
shareI was wondering the same but this makes sense. Just curious, do they actually show that the name was engraved on the pen? Did I miss something?
shareYes, you can clearly see that "Lee Jin-Seok" is engraved on the pen in the scene with the grave at the end of the movie. If you can't read korean though, it is understandable that you didn't notice.
It's written like this (vertically, on the pen):
이
진
석
edit: Apparently, you can't write in korean on imdb.