In the film The Age of Shadows (2016), the Resistance members in Japanese occupied 1920s Korea get in touch with Hungarian anarchists for bombs. How exactly would this happen before the internet, at such a distance?

by fathercthulu
dsk_oz

I believe that "Hungarian" may be a fictional reference to the Czech legion. It was operating in the siberian part of russia around the time and had significant contact with the korean resistance fighters working in nearby regions. This included moral support, as czechs would've understood the struggle of the independence fighters, but also the sale of arms.

There's very little material in english about korean resistance fighters period, let alone about the interactions between the czech legion and korean fighters, but the czech ambassador to korea wrote a summary of the topic a few years back:

http://www.mzv.cz/seoul/en/bilateral_relations/czech_korean_encounters_through_the/czech_support_of_the_march_1_movement.html

There's a couple of specific papers (referred to in the article above) that go into the topic specifically:

Kloslova, Zdenka. “The Czechoslovak Legion in Russia and Korean Independence Movement (A Contribution to the Earliest Czech-Korean Contacts).” Archiv Orientalni 70:2 (2002): 195-220.

Kloslova, Zdenka. “Czech Arms for Korean Independence Fighters.” Archiv Orientalni 71:1 (2003): 55-64.