Korean Drama: Six Children

On Astro AEC Channel 301, there is this one particular drama that is of interest to everyone in this house. It's a Korean drama entitled Six Children. I am finding it hard to find any media linked to this particular drama perhaps due to the inept translation of the korean title to English (many of the translated subtitles are bugging me already).

It is a Korean drama set in a small village, where an everyone is living in poverty and the most luxurious item a family can have is a black and white television set. The story circles around a family of 6 children and their tireless widowed mother who tries in solitude to provide for all 6 of her children.

The two eldest children are already working, and the youngest can barely walk on his own yet. Out of the six, two are girls, the rest boys, but all of them are very good-natured kids, which makes the series very heart-warming at times. Also very interesting is how the mom manages to cope with each kids' wants while trying to clear her debts, the rent, trying to find more ways to earn more income to provide for the family, etc, etc... a mother's work is never done.

A side story regards the sister in law of the mother, aunt to the children. A married man who is interested in making her his second wife but who still has family on the other side of Korea (there's like North and South, divided by the war or ideologies... long story) is reluctant to write a letter which declares his responsibility solely to her (sort of like divorce papers but which includes the kids as well) and no more to the previous family.

The story expands to the lives of all the children, how they pass their time, what they learn through everyday experiences and, although I've yet to see the effects, the impact everyone in the village experiences during war time.

What is interesting about the show is that everything is raw and looked so unscripted. When they slap someone they were really slapping that person, rather than moving their hands really quick across the other person's face then adding sound effects into the scene later on. Another thing that is raw are the tears involved in teary scenes. Brings you to tears as well. You don't really see that in modern day families no more. And I'm not sure if that's a good thing.

Edit: Thanks to Lil Tiger who left a link in the Comments of this post, you get to see the movie on Youtube. Would help if you can understand Chinese. I'm just saying..