My Tutor Friend

My Tutor Friend
My Tutor Friend poster (2003)
Hangul
Hanja
同甲내기 課外하기
Revised RomanizationDonggabnaegi gwaoehagi
McCune–ReischauerTonggapnaegi kwaoehagi
Directed byKim Kyeong-hyeong
Written byPark Yeon-seon
Based onSu-wan-ee, My Tutor Friend by Choi Su-wan
Produced byJang Young-gwon
Lee Seo-yeol
Heo Dae-yeong
StarringKim Ha-neul
Kwon Sang-woo
CinematographyJi Kil-woong
Na Seung-yong
Edited byKo Im-pyo
Music byLee Kyung-sub
Distributed byCJ Entertainment
Release date
  • February 7, 2003 (2003-02-07)
Running time
110 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeUS$17.7 million[1]

My Tutor Friend (Korean동갑내기 과외하기; RRDonggabnaegi gwaoehagi; lit. "Tutoring a Student of the Same Age") is a 2003 South Korean romantic comedy film starring Kim Ha-neul and Kwon Sang-woo. Unglamorous Su-wan is a sophomore in college who gets hired to tutor rich troublemaker Ji-hoon, who is repeating his senior year of high school for the third time.

Released on February 7, 2003, the film topped the box office for five consecutive weeks and sold 4,809,871 tickets, making it the third best selling Korean film of 2003.[2]

This was Kim Kyeong-hyeong's directorial debut. Park Yeon-seon's screenplay was based on a series of stories posted online in 2000 by a real-life English literature major named Choi Su-wan about her experiences in tutoring a high schooler of her same age.[3]

  1. ^ "Box office by Country: My Tutor Friend" Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine. Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
  2. ^ "The Best Selling Films of 2003" Archived 2010-07-28 at the Wayback Machine. Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2012-06-04.
  3. ^ "Is Good Omen a Hindrance For Gaining Popularity?". The Dong-a Ilbo. April 15, 2004. Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2013-05-28.