My Tutor Friend

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Movie: My Tutor Friend
Hangul: 동갑내기 과외하기
Revised romanization: Donggabnaegi gwawoehagi
Director: Kyeong-hyeong Kim
Writer: Soo-Wan Choi, Choi Soo-Wan
Producer: Jang Yeong-Kwon
Cinematographer: Ji Kil-Yong
Release Date: February 07, 2003
Runtime: 110 Min.
Production Company: Corea Entertainment
Distributor: CJ Entertainment
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Plot

Su-wan is a sophomore in college, and she works part-time as a tutor to cover her tuition since her father lost his job and started a small chicken eatery. Tutoring is a tough job, especially since basket cases are more curious about what's underneath her skirt (The mirror is the most commonly employed device in satisfying this curiosity.) than what's in the books. Again for the zillionth time, she couldn't hack it. It's been only 7 days since she started teaching her new student, and already she's been sacked. "No tutoring, no tuition," declares her mother to make sure she understands she has no choice. So Su-wan is back on the market, and meets her next challenge -- the impossible, the unconquerable and the unreformable Ji-hoon.

He's the eldest son of a wealthy upstart. At school, he's a well-known fighter and the king of troublemakers. And what's more, he's repeating his senior year for the third time. Ji-hoon, who boasts such an impressive school record, becomes a very unwilling student of Su-wan, who's the same age but in college. She is flabbergasted by his careless manners and speech, and his incessant smoking during the lesson. Extremely tempted to quit, Su-wan is determined not to lose this job since she doesn't want to disappoint her Mom. Yes, she'll bring him down on his knees and under her control, so as it may seem as she tries to convince herself, but Ji-hoon tramples on her courage with his bluntness:

"Hey babe, just sit over there for two hours and then leave. I'll make sure you get paid." "Oh¡¦ sure, why not¡¦"

That's how their lessons began. And from then on, things started happening one after another.

Notes

The origin of this movie was the Internet episode series "Su-wanee-"My Tutor Friend"". In June 2000, Choi Su-wan, a real-life English Literature major, posted on the Internet twenty episodes about her experience in tutoring. Each episode was viewed by 15,000 Netizens on average. The eye-catching series was then featured in www.puha.co.kr, a website specializing in comic episodes, and has since been viewed on average 30,000 times per episode. The popularity caught on in printed medium as a comic series in the monthly Issue under the title "He and I" by SHIM Hye-jin. This was then published in one volume in 2001 by Daewon C.I., and in the same year its screenplay version was born.
Related titles:
1. My Tutor Friend 2 | Donggabnaegi gwawoehagi Two (2007)