Art Museum by the Zoo is a 1998 South Korean romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy film

Romantic comedy films are films with light-hearted, humorous plotlines, centered on romantic ideals such as that true love is able to surmount most obstacles. One dictionary definition is "a funny movie, play, or television program about a love story that ends happily"...

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Plot

On leave from the military, Cheol-soo arrives at his girlfriend's apartment only to find it occupied by another woman, Choon-hee. After a few days he finds out that his girlfriend is now engaged to someone else, and having nowhere else to go he ends up staying with Choon-hee. At first the two struggle to get along, but before long Chul-soo discovers that she is writing a screenplay to enter into a competition, and they end up working on a story together based on their own experiences of love, titling it "Art Museum by the Zoo".

Cast

• Shim Eun-ha
  Shim Eun-ha
  -Profile:Shim Eun-ha debuted in 1994 in the basketball-themed TV drama The Last Match, and quickly became the nation's most popular and talked-about star...
  
   ... Choon-hee
• Lee Seong-jae
  Lee Seong-jae
  Lee Seong-jae is a South Korean actor.- Biography :A theater and film graduate from Dongguk University, Lee Seong-jae rose to prominence in 1999 in Kim Sang-Jin's comedy film Attack the Gas Station. His portrayal of a dog-hating lecturer who desperately wants to become a professor in Bong...
  
   ... Cheol-soo
• Ahn Sung-ki
  Ahn Sung-ki
  Ahn Sung-ki is known to the public as the "National Best Actor of Korea".-Biography:A Roman Catholic, he was born in Daegu and grew up as a child actor - graduating Kyundong junior high school, from which Cho Yong-pil also graduated - appearing in director Kim Ki-young's celebrated film The...
  
   ... In-gong
• Song Seon-mi ... Da-hye

Release

Art Museum by the Zoo 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 19 December 1998, and received a total of 412,472 admissions in Seoul

Seoul

Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...

, making it the fifth best-selling Korean film of 1998.