Default

Default (국가부도의 날, 2018) is a South Korean historical drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Choi Kuk-hee. November 1997. A Bank of Korea monetary policy analyst runs the numbers and reaches an uncomfortable conclusion: the country has roughly a week before it can no longer service its foreign debt.

Going public would give ordinary people time to act. The problem is that silence suits others rather well. Kim Hye-soo plays Han Shi-hyun, the official who picks a side when the cost of that choice is measured in livelihoods; Yoo Ah-in is a young entrepreneur who loses everything before he understands what happened. Vincent Cassel joins as an IMF representative who arrives with his own calculus. The 1997 crisis wiped out hundreds of thousands of Korean households. This film is less interested in easy villains than in the bureaucratic quiet that let it get that far.

Stream Default (2018) online on iFILM.