Good News Ending Explained: What Happens to the Plane? Does Go-myung Receive the Recognition He Deserves?

Good News Ending Explained: When a Japanese passenger plane is taken hostage by communists who want to take it to North Korea, the South Korean army and other bureaucrats decide to take matters into their own hands.

The disaster black comedy film has a runtime of 136 minutes.

Good News Ending Explained

The film opens with passengers getting on a plane that is about to be hijacked. Things soon go off the rails soon enough but hilariously, the inexperienced hijackers have done no research and, thus, have no idea how to get to North Korea and nor do they have any idea about how much fuel it takes to get there. The pilots, sensing their lack of preparedness, take advantage and tell them that they must refuel in order to have a chance to reach Pyongyang.

In the midst of the chaos is Sul Kyung-gu’s Nobody and Hong Kyung’s Seo Go-myung, along with the US Intelligence Agency, who look up an elaborate scheme to have the plane never reach Pyongyang and give up the hostages as well. With Park Sang-hyeon’s blessings, Go-myung goes ahead with violating international aviation laws while trying to figure out the plane’s path. They eventually do find it, but mismanagement and a breakdown of communication among all parties result in things getting a bit messy!

Go-myung eventually catches the plane on the emergency frequency while on a duel with the North Koreans and is able to divert all communication to their own frequency while they turn Gimpo International Airport in Seoul into Pyongyang and deceive the plane into landing in South Korea and save countless lives.

Is the plan successful?

The initial plan is unsuccessful because the hijackers figure out that they are in South Korea and not the North. The hijackers call Go-myung to the plane and threaten to kill the hostages if they don’t let them fly to the North. After a conversation with the First Lady, the South Koreans promise to let them go to the North if they let the passengers out, but the hijackers refuse to believe the boy who cried wolf.

In the end, with all the different bureaucrats refusing to take responsibility, Go-myeong decides to rush to the plane to stop them from blowing the entire thing up. Thankfully, on the way, Shinichi Ishida, the Japanese Deputy Minister of Transport, decides to make an exchange – him in place of the 100 passengers.

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What happens in the end?

The plane eventually goes to the North, where nothing truly happens. It turns out that the hijackers were only carrying fake guns and had no intention of killing anyone, and received asylum in the North. Go-myung doesn’t get the honour that he had hoped to receive because, after a talk with the US and the Soviet Union, South Korea officially refuses any involvement in the matter, thus rendering all of their sacrifices null and void. However, at least his conscience is clear.

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