Hope in Hungnam takes place during the darkest days of the korean war in 1950: from the brutal battle of chosin reservoir to the stunning christmas eve evacuation of 100,000 civilians from hungnam, north korea. As the fl...Hope in Hungnam takes place during the darkest days of the korean war in 1950: from the brutal battle of chosin reservoir to the stunning christmas eve evacuation of 100,000 civilians from hungnam, north korea. As the flames of war engulf the korean peninsula, us marine jack stiles desperately searches for meaning in the frozen killing fields of north korea.