An Affair (Korean: 정사; RR: Jeongsa) is a 1998 South Korean film.[1] The quiet film about a woman who falls in love with her sister's fiancé was the seventh-highest-grossing Korean film of 1998 and won the Best Asian Film award at the 1999 Newport Beach International Film Festival.
| An Affair | |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 정사 |
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| Revised Romanization | Jeongsa |
| McCune–Reischauer | Chŏngsa |
| Directed by | E J-yong |
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| Cinematography | Kim Young-cheol |
| Edited by | Hahm Sung-won |
| Music by | Jo Seong-woo |
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Running time | 108 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
Plot edit
Seo-hyun is an ordinary housewife in her late thirties with a ten-year-old son and a successful architect husband. For Seo-hyun, life is a series of banal routines, but she is well provided with upper class comforts. Her sheltered life is suddenly threatened with the appearance of U-in, her much younger sister's attractive new fiancé. U-in approaches Seo-hyun and attraction evolves into a passionate affair. Seo-hyun is aware that falling for the younger man will destroy her and her family, but she cannot help herself and the new feelings that are stirring within...
Cast list edit
- Lee Mi-sook as Seo-hyun
- Lee Jung-jae as U-in
- Kim Min as Ji-hyun
References edit
- ^ Elley, Derek (1998-11-30). "An Affair". Variety. Retrieved 2023-11-04.
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