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Please Teach Me English
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Wikipedia article
{{Infobox film
| name = Please Teach Me
English
| image = Please Teach Me English movie poster.jpg
| caption = Theatrical poster
| native_name =
| director = Kim Sung-su
| producer = Jo Min-hwan
Kim Sung-su
| writer = No Hye-yeong
Choi Hee-dae
Kim Sung-su
| starring = Lee Na-young
Jang Hyuk
| music = Jo Seong-woo
| cinematography = Kim Hyung-koo
| editing = Nam Na-yeong
| distributor = Cinema Service
| released =
| runtime = 118 minutes
| country = South Korea
| language = Korean
English
| budget =
}}
'Please Teach Me English' (; lit. "The Complete Mastering of English") is a 2003 South Korean comedy about a young woman who begins English lessons after she is unable to help a foreigner at her government office.
Synopsis
Park Mun-su (Jang Hyuk) and Na Young-ju (Lee Na-young) are classmates in a private English class. Mun-su frequently chases women while working in his shoe shop. However, Young-ju has an unreciprocated interest in him. They eventually become friends, and frequently sit together in class.
One day, Young-ju boasts about a pig on her grandparents' farm who can recognize the English alphabet. The class decide to visit the pig, only to discover it has been eaten the same day and Young-ju just invented the whole story. Young-ju tries to train a piglet to recognize the alphabet; and when Mun-su finds out about her efforts, he tries to help her. However, the pig escapes, and has to be recaptured. The class and Young-ju's family have a party that night.
One day, while riding the bus, Young-ju catches Mun-su showing the photo of a woman who she mistakenly believes to be his girlfriend. Discouraged by this, Young-ju skips English classes. Her teacher, an Australian woman, tries to convince her to return to the classes. Young-ju attends a farewell party for the class, but Mun-su is not there. Afterwards she meets Mun-su's mother, who is looking for him. She discovers that his mother is about to meet the girl in the photo.
The girl, known as Victoria or Mun-young, speaks no Korean and needs Young-ju to translate. Dressed in a hanbok, Mun-su's mother and talking to Victoria, Young-ju, who thinks Victoria is her rival, purposefully translates incorrectly telling Victoria; "You looked more beautiful in the photo." Victoria is astonished. Young-ju tells Victoria that everybody hates her because she is not Korean. Victoria asks her to tell Mun-su's mother that she came with good intentions and leaves. Mun-su arrives to find his mother weeping. Young-ju hides. Victoria has checked out of the hotel, but Young-ju stops her car, and admits that she lied. Victoria reunites with Mun-su and his mother. Ashamed, Young-ju boards a train but Mun-su follows her, leaving his family behind. She tries to hide from him, but Mun-su finds Young-ju, loudly confessing to her that Victoria is not his girlfriend, but his long-lost sister from New York. They make up, kissing in the train, with the entire train cheering them on. They marry and have a baby.
Cast
*Lee Na-young as Na Young-ju
*Jang Hyuk as Park Mun-su
*Angela Kelly as Catherine
*Na Moon-hee as Mun-su's mother
*Kim Yong-gun as Young-ju's father
*Kim Young-ae as Young-ju's mother
*Kim In-moon as Young-ju's grandfather
*Moon Mi-bong as Young-ju's grandmother
*Jung Sang-hoon as Young-ju's younger brother
*Lee Chang-hwan as Richard
*Baek Ye-young as Julie
*Jung Suk-yong as Tyson
*Hwang Hyo-eun as Betty
*Choi Joo-bong as Chief of district office
*Kang Nam-young as Bo-kyeong
*Lee So-eun as Mun-young
*Kim Sun-hwa as Madam
*Jo Jae-yoon as Manager Hong
*Jang Ji-soo as Miss Lee
*Yoo Hae-jin as Subway passenger (cameo)
*Lee Beom-soo as Subway passenger (cameo)
*Jung Doo-hong as Terrorist (cameo)
*Kim In-kwon as Sergeant (cameo)
References
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