A Reason to Live is a 2011 South Korean film by Lee Jeong-Hyang. It stars Song Hye-kyo as Da-Hae, a director who forgives a teenage boy for killing her fiancé, and Song Chang-ui

Song Chang-ui

Song Chang Ui is a South Korean actor best known for winning the Excellence Award for Best Actor for his role as doctor Yang Tae-Sub in the SBS weekend drama Life is Beautiful. In 2005, he appeared in the film My Girl and I with Cha Tae-hyun and Song Hye-kyo. He plays stage director Kim Suk...

 as Sang-Ho. It premiered at the 16th Busan International Film Festival on 27 October 2011.

Plot

Documentary filmmaker Da-hae (Song Hye-kyo) loses her fiance when he was knocked down by a motorbike by a hit and run teenage boy on her birthday. Based on her belief as a Catholic, she forgives him and signs a petition to revoke the juvenile's death penalty. One year later, Da-hae is commissioned by the Catholic church to make a documentary on the inhumanity of capital punishment. However, her moral convictions and desire to be compassionate are seriously questioned when she finds out that the teenage driver killed a classmate, not long after his reprieve.

Cast

• Song Hye-kyo as Da-hye
• Song Chang-ui
  Song Chang-ui
  Song Chang Ui is a South Korean actor best known for winning the Excellence Award for Best Actor for his role as doctor Yang Tae-Sub in the SBS weekend drama Life is Beautiful. In 2005, he appeared in the film My Girl and I with Cha Tae-hyun and Song Hye-kyo. He plays stage director Kim Suk...
  
   as Sang-ho
• Nam Ji-hyun as Ji-min
• Ki Tae-young