Old memories of love and heartbreak will soon resurface, as they find themselves at different junctions in their lives. Seung-Min now has no choice, but to take on Seo-Yeon’s home project. Seo-Yeon persists and even goes to his boss with her wish.

Back to the present day, Seung-Min is hesitant to take Seo-Yeon’s job offer.

As they work on a class project together, Seung-Min and Seo-Yeon begin to fall in love. He first meets Seo-Yeon in his Architecture 101 class. 15 years ago, Seung-Min is a naive young man beginning his architecture studies in college. She wants to hire Seung-Min to rebuild her home on Jeju Island. Seo-Yeon is his first love, but he hasn’t seen her since his freshman year in college. Seung-Min doesn’t recognize the woman at first, but then realizes the woman is Seo-Yeon. This was director Chung Ji-young’s first film after a 13-year hiatus and it received a 13-minute ovation at its 2011 Busan International Film Festival premiere.Īrchitecture 101 – 건축학 개론 (Geon-chook-hak-gae-ron)ģ5-year-old architect Seung-Min receives a visit at his office from a woman. Nah Yeong-hee’s realistic performance as his wife, Park Won-sang’s as the lawyer, and Kim Ji-ho’s as a reporter also lend the film increased authenticity. The physicality of his silence telegraphs the movie’s theme. Ahn Seong-gi plays the professor, creating an impression stronger than expected. It was inspired by the true story of Kim Kyung-ho, a math professor who was arrested for shooting a crossbow at the presiding judge of his appeal against wrongful dismissal. The controversial “Unbowed” dramatizes 2007’s Crossbow Terror Incident between a college professor and a judge. As political intrigue begins to infiltrate this love triangle, the palace is revealed as hell-like space of passion and obsession from which any of these characters will be lucky to emerge from still alive. Once inside the royal palace, two men are immediately seized by the woman – the Grand Prince Seong-won (Kim Dong-wuk), a megalomaniacal ruler drunk with power and lust, and Kwon-yoo (Kim Min-joon), who has everything to lose if his desire for Hwa-yeon is exposed. Living a torturous life of poverty and barely able to survive, Hwa-yeon (Jo Yeo-jeong) decides to offer herself as one of the king’s concubines.

The Top 10 most searched Korean Movies for the year 2012Ĭoncubine – 후궁: 제왕의 첩 (Hoo-goong: Je-wang-eui Cheob) A sultry erotic drama well-crafted in a Joseon Dynasty palace in which a royal consort is thrown into a merciless game of thrones, but it’s more than a sexed-up Korean Movie, as it skillfully interweaves compelling lust-hate relationships, character twists and familiar court intrigue. This year too Google has published the zietgeist for 2012 highlighting the top 10 most searched Korean Movies in South Korea.

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