Race to Freedom: Um Bok Dong
Race to Freedom: Uhm Bok-dong is a 2019 South Korean biographical drama film directed and written by Kim Yoo-sung. It stars Rain as a legendary cyclist Uhm Bok-dong. This film was a critical and commercial failure, and is considered to be one of the worst South Korean films ever made. Plot. Based on the true story of famed cyclist Uhm Bok-dong, who became a symbol of pride for Koreans when he defeated Japanese cyclists and won the championship in a bicycle race which took place during the Japanese colonial rule  of Korea. Production. Principal photography began on April 18, 2017 and wrapped on September 29, 2017. Reception. The film was considered widely among korean audiences as a massive flop, and a meme about the film having attracted the lowest audiences in south korean film has given birth to a meme that uses the amount of people who watched the film, which were about 170,000, as a unit called 'UBD". Controversy. The film got into a controversy because of Um's past as a robber.