An Affair

An Affair

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Hangul
Hanja
Revised Romanization Jeongsa
McCune–Reischauer Chŏngsa
Directed by E J-yong
Produced by Oh Jeong-wan
Lee Se-ho
Written by Kim Dae-woo
E J-yong
Starring Lee Mi-sook
Lee Jung-jae
Song Yeong-chang
Music by Jo Seong-woo
Cinematography Kim Young-cheol
Edited by Ham Sung-won
Release dates
  • October 3, 1998
Running time
108 minutes
Country South Korea
Language Korean

An Affair (Hangul: 정사; RR: Jeongsa) is a 1998 South Korean film. The quiet film about a woman who falls in love with her sister's fiance was the seventh-highest grossing Korean film of 1998 and won the Best Asian Film award at the 1999 Newport Beach International Film Festival.

Plot

Seo-hyun is an ordinary housewife in her late thirties with a ten-year-old son and a successful architect husband. For Seo-hyun, life is a series of banal routines, but she is well provided with upper class comforts. Her sheltered life is suddenly threatened with the appearance of U-in, her much younger sister's attractive new fiance. U-in approaches Seo-hyun and attraction evolves into a passionate affair. Seo-hyun is aware that falling for the younger man will destroy her and her family, but she cannot help herself and the new feelings that are stirring within...

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