An Affair
An Affair (Korean: 정사; RR: Jeongsa) is a 1998 South Korean film. 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.
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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
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
- Lee Mi-sook as Seo-hyun
- Lee Jung-jae as U-in
- Kim Min as Ji-hyun