My Tutor Friend (2003)

Original title

동갑내기 과외하기

Directed by

Kyeong-hyeong Kim

Genre

comedy film, romantic comedy, teen film

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

12

Rating

6.5 of 10 from 56 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A plain college student gets hired to tutor a rich troublemaker who is stuck repeating his senior year of high school. They clash at first, but gradually grow closer despite their differences.

lightheartedfunnyromanticplayfulbouncywarmcharmingpredictable

What happens

My Tutor Friend (Korean: 동갑내기 과외하기; lit. 'Tutoring a Student of the Same Age') is a 2003 South Korean romantic comedy film starring Kim Ha-neul and Kwon Sang-woo. Unglamorous Su-wan is a sophomore in college who gets hired to tutor rich troublemaker Ji-hoon, who is repeating his senior year of high school for the third time. Released on February 7, 2003, the film topped the box office for five consecutive weeks and sold 4,809,871 tickets, making it the third best selling Korean film of 2003. This was Kim Kyeong-hyeong's directorial debut. Park Yeon-seon's screenplay was based on a series of stories posted online in 2000 by a real-life English literature major named Choi Su-wan about her experiences in tutoring a high schooler of her same age. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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