Once in a Summer is a 2006 South Korea

South Korea

The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...

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Melodrama

The term melodrama refers to a dramatic work that exaggerates plot and characters in order to appeal to the emotions. It may also refer to the genre which includes such works, or to language, behavior, or events which resemble them...

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Romance film

Romance films are love stories that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate involvement of the main characters and the journey that their love takes through courtship or marriage. Romance films make the love story or the search for love the main plot focus...

 film directed by Jo Geun-Sik. The film stars Lee Byung-Hun

Lee Byung-Hun

Lee Byung-hun is a South Korean actor, singer and model. He has starred in popular television dramas such as Iris , All In and Beautiful Days...

 and Soo Ae

Soo Ae

Park Soo-ae , known simply as Soo Ae, is a South Korean actress.- Career :Soo Ae nearly became a member of a pop idol group. Fresh out of high school, a record agent approached the young stunner on the street in the trendy Apgujeong area. She spent six months in grueling practice, but in the end...

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Plot

To make up for her poor performance as an assistant producer, a girl promises to have her reserved but very renowned professor appear on their television series. The show involves locating the long-lost-loved ones of the participants past. Although hesitant at first, the professor finally agrees. His story takes the assistant back 50 years-1969- where the world is in chaos.
President Park Chung-Hee is a dictator and the students are furious. Suk-Young and a group of his fellow classmates travel to the country to escape the tense city and help a small village come up to date with the new technology that has been invented. It is there he meets Jung-In, a very pretty girl who is the keeper of the only library. Cheerful and happy, they first run across each other when Suk-Young hears Jung-In singing while hanging up laundry. Over the period of time that Suk-Young is at the village they get to know each other more. Although Jung-In is hesitant, she gradually opens up to Suk-Young. Their bumpy courtship, however, is threatened by dark secrets that Jung-in hides about her family and their history in the village, secrets that will haunt the pair as the volatile political climate catches up with them.

Cast

• Lee Byung-hun
  Lee Byung-Hun
  Lee Byung-hun is a South Korean actor, singer and model. He has starred in popular television dramas such as Iris , All In and Beautiful Days...
  
   as Yun Suk-young
• Soo Ae
  Soo Ae
  Park Soo-ae , known simply as Soo Ae, is a South Korean actress.- Career :Soo Ae nearly became a member of a pop idol group. Fresh out of high school, a record agent approached the young stunner on the street in the trendy Apgujeong area. She spent six months in grueling practice, but in the end...
  
   as Seo Jung-in
• Choi Deok-mun as Suk-young's senior
• Jeong Seok-yong as Mr. Kim
• Lee Hye-eun as Bok-Ja
• Lee Se-eun as Lee Su-Jin
• Na Ki-soo as Suk-Young's father
• Oh Dal-su
  Oh Dal-su
  Oh Dal-su is a South Korean actor. He has played many crime-related roles, such as Mr.Park the owner of the organized crime funded private jail in Oldboy and a former gang boss in Mapado . He plays a semi-comic part as a weapons smuggler in A Bittersweet Life...
  
  as Nam Gyun-Soo
• Yu Hae-Jin as PD Kim
• Park Nam-Hee
• Kim Jung-Ki