Petty Romance
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| Hangul | |
| Revised Romanization | Jjaejjaehan romaenseu |
| McCune–Reischauer | Tchaetchaehan romaensŭ |
| Directed by | Kim Jung-hoon |
| Produced by | Baek Kyung-sook |
| Written by | Kim Jung-hoon |
| Starring |
Choi Kang-hee Lee Sun-kyun |
| Music by | Jung Jae-hyung |
| Cinematography | Choi Young-hwan |
| Edited by | Nam Na-yeong |
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118 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$14,244,325 |
Petty Romance (Hangul: 째째한 로맨스; RR: Jjaejjaehan romaenseu) is a 2010 South Korean 18-rated romantic comedy film about the fiery relationship between an adult cartoonist and a former sex columnist. The film was a moderate hit, selling 2,048,296 tickets nationwide.
Lead actors Lee Sun-kyun and Choi Kang-hee had previously starred together in the 2008 SBS TV series My Sweet Seoul.
Seoul, the present day. In need of money to redeem a treasured family portrait, struggling manhwa artist Jeong Bae takes part in a publishing company's competition for an adult manga with a prize of ₩130 million (US$100,000). Advised that his big weakness is his story-writing, Jeong Bae advertises for a professional writer and ends up hiring the self-important Han Da-rim, with whom he agrees to split the prize money 50-50 if they win. Unknown to Jeong Bae, Da-rim recently lost her job as a sex columnist at magazine Hot Girl — edited by her friend Ma Kyung-sun — where she compensated for her lack of experience with men by copying material from the Kama Sutra to the Kinsey Reports. For the manhwa competition, Da-rim comes up with the idea of a female assassin, Ma Mi-so, who keeps her male victims captive for erotic kicks; without telling Jeong Bae, she models the victim on her twin brother, womanising Han Jong-soo, who shares a flat with her and cannot wait for her to move out. She finally does, which leads Jeong Bae's friend (and fellow competitor) Hae-ryong, who has secretly bugged his flat, to believe they're having an affair. However, from her unrealistic sex scenes, Jeong Bae gradually comes to suspect that Da-rim has never actually "done it", and then realizes she's developed a crush on him.
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