Yongsoon

Yongsoon (2017)

용순

That summer, I met my first love.

Yong-soon is an 18-year-old high school student. She falls in love with her gym teacher, but she thinks her teacher might have a girlfriend. Yong-Soon and her friends try to find out whether he does have a girlfriend, but they can't find any clues. Making things worse, her father brings a new stepmother from Mongolia.

Date of release
2017-06-08
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 44m
Genres
Drama, Comedy
Director
Shin Joon

Casting

Interesting facts

Yongsoon (Korean: 용순) is a 2016 South Korean drama film directed by Shin Joon.

Production

The director Shin Joon first made a short film called Yongsoon, Summer of 18 as his graduation project while majoring film in the Korea National University of Arts in 2014. The film was inspired from his early days as a instructor in a hagwon teaching middle school and highschool students. After producer Kim ji hye saw this short film, she asked him to make it into a full length feature film.

. The director said that this setting was intentional because he was originally from Daejeon. The stepmother of Yongsoon was intentionally set as a Mongolian to address the issue of discrimination towards foreiginers in South Korea. The film premiered in 2016 at Busan International Film Festival.

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