Please Teach Me English
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| Hangul | 영어완전정복 |
| Hanja | 英語完全征服 |
| RR | Yeongeo Wanjeon Jeongbok |
| MR | Yŏngŏ Wanjŏn Chŏngpok |
| Directed by | Kim Seong-soo |
| Written by | Kim Ji-yeong No Hye-yeong Choi Hee-dae |
| Starring | Lee Na-young Jang Hyuk Kim In-mun |
| Music by | Jo Seong-wu |
| Cinematography | Kim Hyeong-gu |
| Editing by | Nam Na-yeong |
| Distributed by | Cinema Service |
| Release date(s) | 5 November 2003 |
| Running time | 118 min. |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean English Cantonese (dubbed) |
Please Teach Me English (영어완전정복 literally 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.
[edit] Synopsis
Mun-su (Jang Hyuk) and Na Young-ju (Lee Na-young) are classmates in a private English class. Mun-su frequently looks out for girls while working in his shoe shop. However, Young-ju has an unreciprocated interest in him. They eventually became friends, and frequently sit together in class.
One day, Young-ju boasts about a pig in her grandparents' farm who can recognize the English alphabet. The class decide to visit the pig, only to discover it had been eaten the same day (Young-ju had invented it). Young-ju trains a piglet to recognize the alphabet; when her efforts are discovered by Mun-su, he helps. However, the pig escapes, and has to be recaptured. The class and Young-ju's family have a party that night.
Returning on the bus, Young-ju catches Mun-su showing a photo of a woman, who she mistakes as his girlfriend. Mun-su boasts that the photo is more beautiful than the real person.
A depressed Young-ju skips classes, and her teacher looks for her. Young-ju attends a farewell party with the class, but Mun-su is absent. Afterwards she meets Mun-su's mom looking for him. She discovers that his mum was meeting the girl in the photo.
The girl, known as Victoria or Moon-young, speaks no Korean and needs Young-ju to translate. As Mun-su's mum, wearing a hanbok, talks to Victoria, Young-ju, who has only learnt simple English, is at a loss and utters: "she 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 say that she had 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 lying.
Victoria hugs Mun-su and his mother. Young-ju boards a train, but Mun-su leaves his family and confesses that Victoria is not his girlfriend, but his long-lost sister from New York. Mun-su finds Young-ju and helps her to put on her shoes. They kiss, and the entire train cheers. They marry and have a baby.
[edit] Production and release
The film begins with an animated sequence.
The film was first released in South Korea. Then it was released in China, with the title 『英語完全征服』, and a dub and sub in Cantonese. Next, it was released in Japan with the title 『英語完全克服』. In the United States, it has been released both with the original Korean audio track, the Yue Chinese dub, and subtitles in English and Cantonese.
[edit] External links
- Please Teach Me English at the Internet Movie Database
- Please Teach Me English at HanCinema
- (Korean) Cineseoul profile
- Official Site (closed)
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