The Rose of Sharon Blooms Again (Korean: 무궁화 꽃이 피었습니다, romanized: Mugunghwa Ggochi Pieossseubnida) is a popular South Korean novel by Kim Chin-myong [ko] published in 1993 which extolls pan-Korean nationalism.
[1] Kong Seok-ha, author of the biography Nuclear Physicist Lee Hui-hao, alleged that his book had been plagiarized, but the Seoul court dismissed his claims in 1997.
[2] The story is set in 1993 and revolves around a South Korean physicist Lee Yong-hoo (based on Benjamin W. Lee) who is killed in the process of secretly helping South and North Korea develop nuclear weapons, to ward off Japanese aggression.
Mugoonghwa - Korean National Flower [ko], the film version opened on 20 May 1995.
Director was Jung Jin-woo and the actors included Jeong Bo-seok, Hwang Shin-hye, Jeon Bok-yeon, Lee Deok-hwa and Park Geun-hyung.