Has it really been 30 years? A digitally-remastered copy of Robot Taekwon V has drawn nearly 700,000 people in Korea this year. I remember pleading with my mother to take me to go see it. And I remember being enthralled by it, like many boys in Korea at the time, for days after seeing it at a theater in Myung-dong. This and Mazinger Z were the subjects of my obsession for years. Its theme song might be the only Korean children's song I can still sing. Based on the number of so many thirty-something parents taking their kids to see it this time around, my nostalgia apparently is hardly unique.
-Roger in DC
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