As One

As One (코리아, 2012) is a South Korean sports drama directed by Moon Hyun-sung that you can watch online on iFILM. In the spring of 1991, North and South Korea assembled a joint table tennis squad for the World Championships in Chiba, Japan — the first unified Korean team in any sport since the peninsula was divided.

Ha Ji-won plays South Korean ace Hyun Jung-hwa; Bae Doona plays her North Korean counterpart Ri Bun-hui. They have spent careers trying to beat each other across a net, and now they have to serve together against a Chinese team that had owned the competition for over a decade.

Director Moon keeps the film personal rather than political — it is less a statement about reunification than a portrait of two athletes who found, briefly, a shared goal. The final match is built with a precision that would flatter a sports documentary. Stream As One (2012) on iFILM.