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| Hangul | 순정만화 |
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| Revised Romanization | Sunjeong manhwa |
| McCune–Reischauer | Sunjŏng manhwa |
| Directed by | Ryu Jang-ha |
| Screenplay by | Ryu Jang-ha Lee Taek-kyeong Kang Kyoo-heon Yoon Taek-Geun Jeon Hyun-hee |
| Based on | Sunjeong Manhwa byKang Full |
| Produced by | Kim Soon-ho Jo Seong-woo Choi Yong-bae |
| Starring | Yoo Ji-tae Lee Yeon-hee Chae Jung-an Kang-in |
| Cinematography | Jo Sang-yoon |
| Edited by | Moon In-dae |
| Music by | Choi Yong-rak |
Production |
Lets Films |
| Distributed by | CJ Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 113 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$3,550,487[1] |
Hello, Schoolgirl (Korean: 순정만화; RR: Sunjeong Manhwa; literally "pure/romantic comic," the Korean version of shōjo manga) is a 2008 South Korean film. Adapted from Love Story, a webtoonbyKang Full, it is the second film directed by Ryu Jang-ha. It stars Yoo Ji-tae, Lee Yeon-hee, Chae Jung-an, and Kang-in.
Kwon Yeon-woo is a somewhat naive 30-year-old low-level civil servant who works in a city hall branch office. After moving into a new apartment, he encounters a high school girl, Soo-young, and sees her on his way to work every morning. She is a cheerful and eccentric 18-year-old who lives with her mother downstairs from him. Over time, the two begin to develop feelings for one another.
Meanwhile, 22-year-old Kang Sook, has just started working at the branch office. He falls head over heels for 29-year-old Kwon Ha-kyeong, a melancholy woman who wanders around taking pictures. She is still holding onto an old flame, and keeps looking for traces of that lost love every day. Kang Sook continues to woo her, regardless of her living in the past.
Can these two relationships ever lead to a happy ending?
Hello Schoolgirl is the second feature film directed by Ryu Jang-ha, following his 2004 debut Springtime.[3] The film is adapted from the first webtoonbyKang Full,[4] which was serialized on Daum and attracted a record-breaking 60 million page views and 500,000 visitor comments.[5] As with the webtoon, the story of the film revolves around two unconventional romances with a noticeable age disparity, though other details of the original serial were changed, such as setting the story in the summer as opposed to winter.[4] The script took two years to complete,[6] and filming commenced on April 1, 2008.[7]
Hello, Schoolgirl was released in South Korea on November 27, 2008, and topped the box office on its opening weekend with 309,065 admissions.[8] As of December 21, the film had received a total of 740,379 admissions.
Joon Soh of The Korea Times praised the film for retaining the essence of the webtoon despite deviations from the original story, saying, "Ryoo succeeds in capturing the tenderness of the online comic, which slowly comes to the surface as the relationships unfold. There is a rich, layered quality to the film, where each little decision or gesture leads to further meanings and possibilities"; however, he also noted that "there are times when the movie aims too much for the conventionally beautiful, sacrificing the awkward, self-deprecating humor that drives much of Kang Full's works."[4]
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