Director Jee-woon Kim says he'd like this to be called a "kimchee western", after the Korean food made with fermented cabbages. He says he thinks the plot and film are spicy and vibrant, like the Korean culture and people.
Most expensive movie in South Korean cinema history as of 2009.
In studying the map, he says that the Russian words mean it could be the "Maritime Province". In North America "Maritime Province" means the eastern seaboard of Canada. To a Korean it means the Primorsky Krai, the coastal region of Siberia that abuts northern Korea.