A local public television station (MIND TV) aired this, and several Korean "soaps" years ago. While I enjoyed the "soaps", Seoul 1945 had a profound effect on me. I missed the first third bit it was not hard to understand how family and friends were affected when they were on opposite sides of the conflict - no matter how close they once may have been, lives were scarred forever. I would buy this series in a heartbeat if it were not so expensive. It covers the period from the end of Japanese occupation until the country is split into North and South. Another excellent one involving the same era is Tae Guk Gi: The Brotherhood of War. The Korean War was over before I was born and my uncle, who had been in the Air Force, did not speak of his time in Korea. Even during my school years, we did not learn much about the Korean conflict - perhaps because most of us had relatives who had been there. Not the usual war movie, but one which shows the effect of war on people who once were very close but divided by the conflict. Tragic but beautiful.