Lee Ji Bong is a 1988 Seoul Summer Olympics bronze medalist for weight-lifting, but a career-ending injury from the games forces him into early retirement. Unable to find another vocation because of the lack of support from the Korean Olympic Committee, he becomes destitute. Down and out, he ends up working at a shady nightclub passing out flyers that advertise its hostesses to passersby until he is visited by his former coachwho insists he begins a career as a coach at a high school in Boseong – a rural region at the southwest tip of the Korean peninsula. There, he forms a weight-lifting team comprised of a rag-tag group of outcasts.
(Source: AsianWiki)
~~ Based on the true story of the teacher Jung In Young (정인영), who discovered Olympic weightlifter Jeon Byung Gwan (전병관).
