#south korea

CRAZY WAITING

Running time: 1 hour & 48 mins

This is a 2008 romantic comedy movie, co-starring Son Tae-young, Jang Keun-Suk, Jang Hee-jin and Danny Ahn. The movie title “Crazy waiting” describes the whole movie; it shows the story of four couples as they wait for their men leave off to the military. The first couple is Won Jae (college student) and his older girlfriend named Hyo-jun, whom works as a physical therapist. The second couple is Bo Ram, a timid looking keyboardist and Min chul, the lead singer who belong in the same music band. The third couple is Jin- A and her boyfriend Eun Suk. And finally, the fourth couple is Jo Bi-yang who lives at her boyfriend Heo Wook´s house. In South Korea, men in their 20´s have to serve mandatory military service for 2 years. As the girlfriends say bye to their boyfriends leave off to the military, the question is whether the girls will be waiting. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvFyJ_VaerE 

100 DAYS WITH MR ARROGANT

Running time: 1 hour & 35 mins

This is a 2004 romantic comedy movie, based on a internet fiction; co-starring Ha Ji Won (하지원) and Kim Jaewon. It is about a high school girl called Ha-yeong, who gets dumped by her boyfriend on their 100th anniversary and after that when she came out, she meets a college guy called Hyung-jin. Ha-yeong accidentally hits the tin and makes a scratch on his Lexus car. Hyung-jin who was devastated by this, angrily demands at her to give him $300 and she could not give him, since she does not have that much money and escapes, but mistakenly leaves her purse behind. Hyung-jin does not want to let her go that easily because she escaped and therefore stalked her and once again demanded her to give the money. After finding out that she is a poor student, he writes this “Enslavement Agreement” between them, saying that she will work as a slave for a 100 days for him, so she can pay the money back. Ha-yeong was having a nightmare going through the 100 days enslavement agreement; she had to wash his clothes, clean the bathroom etc. One day she gets to know by accident that the car damage was only $10, this girl was ready for revenge. But then Hyung-jin shows up at her door as the new tutor? Yes he turned up as her new tutor and took advantage of her. On the other hand, Ha-yeong suddenly began to realise that she was falling for him and she could not stop that feeling. What could happen if he leaves her life when she just started to feel butterflies for him?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2srKG8ZDRc&feature=kp

A MILLIONAIRE’S FIRST LOVE

Running time: 2 hours

This is a 2006 romantic melodrama comedy movie, co-starring Hyun Bin and 이연희(Lee Yeon Hee). It is about a rich high school senior called Kang Jae-kyung, he is not the type of student who would stay in a class for the whole period and usually skips school often. On his 18th birthday, he was to inherit his grandfather´s fortune, but first he had to go to transfer to Boram High School and graduate there; his allowance to credit cards, penthouses and cottages were denied. If he did not want to graduate, he would not receive any of the inheritance. but if he wishes to give, he would only receive 0,1% inheritance. He moves to the countryside and meets an 18 year old girl called Choi Eun-hwan, they become closer and Jae-kyung founds about her disease and wants to give up his inheritance just to buy her a orphanage so she can become happy. One day, at the school play he notices a childhood resemblance that happened when he was a kid, where he promised Eun-hwan that he would come back in 10 days. After remembering this, he runs to Eun-hwan and tells that he did not remember anything of the promise since his parents died on the same day and his memories were all erased from that day. Would Eun-hwan be able to forgive him or would she accept him after understanding his situation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytSwt-bTtZ0&feature=kp

THE BEAST AND THE BEAUTY

Running time: 1 hour & 42 mins

This is a 2005 romantic comedy movie, co-starring Ryoo Seung-bum, Shin Min Ah and Kang-woo Kim. It is about a man called Dong-gun, who is a voice actor and lacks self confidence in himself and has very low self esteem especially in his appearance. He meets a beautiful blind lady called Jang Hae-joo, she mistakes Dong-gun´s car for a taxi and tells him to take her to a place in Seoul. He falls for her at the first sight and thought that this is his chance to be with someone so beautiful like her, since he is so ugly and ladies would never ever come after him. He was her eyes, he would take her to places and describe how the place looks. Jang Hae-joo wondered how he looks like and asked how him to describe her how he looks like. He did not describe of how he looked like, but instead described a guy called Jun-ho whom he had went to high school with. That was the beginning of their sweet relationship, until Jang Hae-joo gets a call from the doctor saying that a donor has been found and she can soon see again. After saying about this to Dong-gun, a man with a low self esteem, how do you think he reacted? He was afraid, he did not know that this would happen all so soon and decided to undergo surgery on his appearance, lying to her saying he is at a project in Hawaii and would come back, while she is finished with the eye surgery. But then everything gets complicated, when Kang-ho the high school mate he described the appearance of instead of his, crosses path with Jang Hae-joo and falls for her. Will Jang Have-joo notice that Kang-ho is not Dong-gun or will she also randomly fall for Kang-ho too?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_uHzeTxwys

LOVELY RIVALS

Running time: 1 hour & 49 mins

This is a 2004 comedy movie, co-starring Yeom Jeong ah (염정아), Lee Se-young and Lee Ji-hoon. The movie is about a teacher called Ms. Yeo Mi-ok who does not go easy on her students; she is very strict. When a new student called Go Mi-nam arrives to class late, she gives her the punishment of washing the school toilet. In the toilet, she beats up the girls and tells them to wash the toilet. Go Mi-nam was not easy either like the other students, she was more of a tomboy. At home, Go Mi-nam is always lonely since her mum has to run the shop to earn money. One day at the school, a new single male teacher arrives with looks to die for and Go Mi-nam fell for him immediately and so did her class teacher. They both try different methods for the new teacher to get interested in them. Who wins the new good-looking teacher? Ms. Yeo Mi-ok or Go Mi-nam? Or will he just reject them both? 
Quickly click the link below to start watching to find out!

–> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWdAx-_ftVI

WINDSTRUCK

This is a 2004 romantic melodrama movie, co-starring Jun Ji Hyun (全智賢) and Jang Hyuk (장혁). The film features a woman who is a police officer named Yeo Kyung-jin, she caught a glimpse of a guy who stole a woman´s purse and was following him even though she was off-duty. As she was following there was another guy who was following him aswell named Go Myung-woo; he is a physics teacher at a girls school. Afterwards when the thief disappeared, Go Myung-woo who was following after the their´s lead, found the stolen purse in a corner. Yeo Kyung-jin sees him and mistakes him for the their and arrests him. She was given the job of to work together with Go Myung-woo in a dangerous district, that day they fought with a group of underage students, they got stuck in a drug cartel shootout and they could not do anything, but to sleep together that night with their handcuffs on. From that night, they became closer and they exchanged phone number and they would talk, even when she is in a middle of a dangerous chase. Their happiness did not last long when Yeo Kyung-jin was on the phone with Go Myung-woo one day in the middle of chasing a dangerous criminal, he ran to see her shoot the criminal, but then it did not shoot him, it shot Go Myung-woo who was behind the criminal. What will happen after when he is dead, will she long for him even more or would she move on?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMM-bCsAHUg

Crazy first love/ First love rally 

This is a 2003 romantic comedy movie, co-starring Cha Tae-hyun and Son Ye-jin. The movie is about a boy named Son Tae-il and a girl named Ju Il-Mae, they grew up together since they were babies. Ju Il-Mae´s mother passed away when she was born and it was Son Tae-il´s mother who would feed milk to her. As they grew up together, Son Tae-il fell in love with Ju Il-Mae and also showed her that he was interested in her. But she never had any feelings for him and always reject him. Young-dal (father of Ju Il Mae) and Son Tae-il came up with a proposal for Son Tae-il to marry his daughter and said that if he could raise his ranks up to 3000 nationwide from his current status of 300 000, he would allow Son Tae-il to marry his daughter. Son Tae-il a very genius kid- an IQ of 148 could always make it on the top, but unfortunately since he was always following Ju Il-Mae, he does not ever study. He accepts the proposal and 2 years later he did pull up his to 3000 nationwide and got into Law School of Seoul National University. However not knowing that Young-dal was fooling him, he studies till the point where he got a nosebleed. But on the other hand, Ju Il Mae just wanted to have fun in her college time and date boys. From that point on, Son Tae-il started his new job as a bodyguard and threatened all the guys away from coming near her. Ju Il Mae noticed what was happening and got angry at first, but asked him afterwards to kiss him but he rejected her. She does not realise that he is doing all this for her and gets sad. Finally after several nosebleeds while studying, he passed his first level judicial exam and had a congratulatory part afterwards, there Ju Il Mae said she loved another man and not Son Tae-il. He got shocked, he could not believe what was happening, after all he did to gain her at last, why did she say that?

Finding Mr Destiny

This is a 2010 romantic comedy movie, adapted by playwright-turned-director Jang Yoo-jeong of her hit 2006 musical; co-starring Im Soo-jung and Gong Yoo. A woman named Ji woong traveled to India once and met her first true love there named Kim Jong-ok. She could not forget him and always had memories of him tattooed in her heart. One day, she found out about a company called “Finding Your First True Love”, which obviously does as the company name says. Ji woong went and told them to track Kim Jong-ok; the guy who runs the company is called Han Gi-joon. He started the company, which literally was his job by wanting to succeed, he did not want to mess anything up. When Ji woong came by the eager to track her first true love, Han Gi-joon had the feeling to give all his effort to find him. Both of them travel together to find that one Kim Jong-ok out of all the 1,108 Kim Jong-ok´s in Korea. But as both of them travelled, Han Gi-joon started to get interested in her. Will Ji woong start to have the same feelings for Han Gi-joon as he do or will Han Gi-joon stop having feelings for her in order to find her first true love since her heart belongs to Kim Jong-ok already?

http://vimeo.com/76929969

Love me not

This is a 2006 romantic movie, co-starring the nation´s little sister Moon geun young and Kim Joo-hyuk. The story starts off with a man called Julian, he has lived off with his rich woman´s customer´s money. When one day he gets threatens to pay back the debt in one month or else he will be killed. He had no choice but to pretend as he was the long lost brother of an heiress Ryoo Min and kill her to get the money. Julian after seeing her notices that she is blind, his mind changes and opens up to her and the relationship however changes after both of them end up liking each other. Julian had to soon pay the money to his creditor but what was stopping him was the reason behind what took away Ryoo Min´s eyesight. Would he able to pay the debt and go back to his normal life or would he be apart of Ryoo Min´s life?

Jackson ohh Jackson…