Speedy Scandal is a 2008 South Korean film written and directed by Kang Hyeong-cheol and starring Cha Tae-hyun

Cha Tae-hyun

Cha Tae-Hyun is a South Korean movie star, television actor, and singer. He started his acting career in a 1995 KBS television drama. He appeared in his first movie, Hallelujah, in 1997, also making his debut as a singer in 2001...

 in the lead role. This was Director Kang's first film before Sunny

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and the highest grossing Korean film of the year.

Plot

Former teen idol Nam Hyeon-soo (Cha Tae-hyun) who thinks he is pretty popular is now in his thirties and working as a radio DJ. A young woman named Hwang Jeong-nam (Park Bo-young) sent stories about her being a single mother to the radio station Hyeon-soo worked at, telling him she is going to meet her father. When He finds out that he is the father of Jeong-Nam when she comes to his apartment with her son Ki-Dong ("Wang Seuk-hyun"). He also finds out that Jeong-Nam was his first love's name and the other Jeong-Nam's real name is Jae-In. Jae-In and her son, Ki-Dong. Not believing it, he goes through a DNA blood test,and the results say that they're related. Jae-in wants to perform on stage singing, but Hyeon-soo thinks this will reveal his scandal with what's happening to Jae-In, Ki Dong, and himself. Ki-Dong's dad Bak Sang-Yeoun ("Im Ji-Gyu") finds Jae-In, when she started getting popular with her singing. They meet and chat, before Sang-Yeoun thought Jae-In was in a relationship with Hyeon-soo. Later at Jae-In's performance, Ki-Dong went missing, which brought Hyen-soo to realize that he really did care for his daughter and grandson. He gave up some of his job to be with his family and started to really love them like his children and cared for them.

Cast

• Cha Tae-hyun
  Cha Tae-hyun
  Cha Tae-Hyun is a South Korean movie star, television actor, and singer. He started his acting career in a 1995 KBS television drama. He appeared in his first movie, Hallelujah, in 1997, also making his debut as a singer in 2001...
  
   ... Nam Hyeon-soo
• Park Bo-young
  Park Bo-young
  Park Bo-young is South Korean actress. She came into the spotlight through her role in the film Speedy Scandal .-Movies:*Unidentified Video *Speedy Scandal *Our School E.T....
  
   ... Hwang Jeong-nam
• Wang Seok-hyeon ... Hwang Ki-dong
• Im Ji-gyu ... Park Sang-yoon, Jeong-nam's first love
• Hwang-woo Seul-hye ... Jo Mo, kindergarten teacher
• Lim Seung-dae ... Bong Pil-joong, entertainment reporter
• Jeong Won-joong ... Bureau director
• Kim Gi-bang ... Director
• Park Yeong-seo ... Assistant director
• Seong Ji-roo ... Lee Chang-hoon (cameo)

Release

Speedy Scandal was released in 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...

 on 3 December 2008, and topped the box office on its opening weekend with 473,725 admissions. It continued to chart well finishing with over 8 million tickets sold becoming the highest grossing Korean film of 2008. The second highest grosser was The Good, The Bad, The Weird

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with 6.6 million tickets then The Chaser

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with roughly 5 million tickets sold.