An Affair

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An Affair
Theatrical poster
Korean name
Hangul
정사
Hanja
Revised RomanizationJeongsa
McCune–ReischauerChŏngsa
Directed byE J-yong
Written by
Produced by
  • Oh Jeong-wan
  • Lee Se-ho
Starring
CinematographyKim Young-cheol
Edited byHahm Sung-won
Music byJo Seong-woo
Release date
  • October 3, 1998 (1998-10-03)
Running time
108 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean

An Affair (Korean정사; RRJeongsa) 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.

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]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Elley, Derek (1998-11-30). "An Affair". Variety. Retrieved 2023-11-04.

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