Marathon (2005 Film)
Marathon (Hangul: 말아톤; RR: Maraton) is a 2005 South Korean film based on the true story of Bae Hyeong-jin, an autistic marathon runner. The film received 5,148,022 admissions becoming the 4th most attended film of 2005.
The film popularized the South Korean term for autism (Hangul: 자폐증; RR: japyejeung) which can be translated as "self-closed syndrome."
Famous quotes containing the word marathon:
“The mountains look on Marathon—
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians’ grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)