'' Bravo , My Life ! '' opens in October 1979 with the news of President Park Chung-hee 's assassination . But for 14-year-old Gwang-ho , it is more importantly his first day at junior high , where the kids are interested in football and brawling . Gwang-ho 's mother , Mal-soon , whose husband is working in Saudi Arabia , devotes everything to her children . Despite a nagging illness , Mal-soon wears heavy make-up as she sells cosmetics door-to-door . Meanwhile , as his sexual awareness increases , Gwang-ho turns his attention and affection to their pretty neighbor Eun-sook , an assistant nurse who is the complete opposite of Gwang-ho 's mother . One day , Gwang-ho receives a " good-luck letter . " The letter states that unless he immediately writes and sends the same letter to someone else , he will be faced with bad luck . He starts sending it to people around him , but as those people start vanishing , Gwang-ho is racked with guilt , suspecting the letter of luck is the cause of their disappearance
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Assassination of Park Chung-hee
Bravo, My Life