A Perfect Match (Joheun saram isseumyeon sogae shikeojwo/좋은 사람 있으면 소개시켜줘 -2002)

Starring:
Eun-Kyung Shin - Kim Hyo-jin
Jun-ho Jeong - Park, Hyeon-su
Hyeong-jin Kong - Jeong Jun
Yeo-jin Kim - Kim Hae-in
Sang-Myeon Park
Yeo-Jeong Jo
Seo-hyeong Kim
Jae-hun Tak
Hyo-eun Hwang

Hyo-Jin is the quietly industrious employee at a Korean dating agency who, while being very talented at finding her clients' their perfect match, finds nothing but a void in her own romantic life. Her ditzy friends are obsessed with finding that special someone though they are too caught up in day-dreams to achieve their goal and Hyo-Jin invents a boyfriend for herself as not to encourage their prying. One of Hyo-Jin's latest and most awkward clients - seemingly distant and disorganised Hyun-Soo - leaves an impression that gets underneath the surface of her professional demeanour. As she tries to match Hyun-Soo up with his dream date she is constantly battling with her own feelings and his foibles while also having to face the scrutiny of her colleagues.

This was a sweet romantic comedy. I've read other reviews about this about how it was typical Korean....blah, blah, blah, blah. I think it was way different than some I've watched. A different scenario, script....whatever. I liked it. A real feel good movie. One of those girls who are down and out and have nobody to love and no one to love them in return. When you have lost all hope, someone unexpected comes into your life and heart and makes it worth to keep trying and going on.

So I don't care what others think. I didn't at least cry with this one...maybe I got a little sad but that was it...in the end.....*smiling*

North Korean Guys (Donghaemulgwa Baekdusan, 동해물과 백두산이-2003)

Starring:
Jun-ho Jeong - Choi Baek-du
Hyeong-jin Kong - Lim Dong-hun
Hyeon-kyeong Ryu - Han Na-ra
Cheol Park - Inspector Ahn
Sang-wook Park - Inspector Park
Min Han
Kyeong-soon Jeong
Won-hie Kim
Hye-mi Lee - Yeon-jung
Jae-ryong Lee
Ji-hye Oh
Yeong-tak Song - Na-ra's Dad

A North Korean navy officer and a sergeant are drinking and fishing and end up falling asleep on a boat. The following morning they find themselves swept away to the beach of the East Sea in South Korea. From that time on, the officer Baekdu (played by Jeong Junho) and Donghae (Gong Hyeongjin) make all out attempts to come back to the North, a process filled with many comical episodes. They are amazed to see the South's young slim women in bikinis and good-for-nothing penniless rakes who regard the two, just from their dialects, as ethnic Koreans from China's Yanbian Prefecture. Even policemen believe that the two have come from police headquarters to appraise their work performances. Things get worse when a runaway girl named Nara befriends them and her father, a police department head, dispatches two detectives to bring her back. Their attempts to go back to North Korea are foiled every time they try to leave, and they end up spending their summer vacation in the South.

HA-HA-HA! If only getting into South Korea were that simple. I'm trying to get there myself. I wish!

The poor guys enjoy a bit of North Korean soju (????), get drunk, fall asleep, get woken by a typhoon, and wash up in paradise. A lot of laughs as they both try to get money, clothes, food, and a way back to their homeland. Then add a couple of idiot detectives who are supposed to be capturing their captains runaway daughter and instead get mistaken for the North Korean men who were the one who actually stole their clothes.

This was highly enjoyable. Even though I'm not even slightly Korean, or Asian as a matter of fact, I couldn't hear the accent they kept talking about. I'm guessing the actors had to change their accents for the movie which I couldn't detect. If I had been a Korean, I might have caught it????

Again, watch to the very end. Did they make it home? You have to watch it to find out.