Volcano High

Volcano High
Volcano High promotional movie poster
Korean name
Hangul
화산고
Hanja
Revised RomanizationHwasango
McCune–ReischauerHwasan'go
Directed byKim Tae-kyun
Written byKim Tae-kyun
Seo Dong-heon
Jeong An-cheol
Produced byCha Seung-jae
StarringJang Hyuk
Shin Min-ah
Kim Su-ro
Kwon Sang-woo
Heo Joon-ho
CinematographyChoi Young-taek
Edited byKo Im-pyo
Music byPark Young
Distributed byCinema Service
Release date
  • December 5, 2001 (2001-12-05)
Running time
121 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean

Volcano High (Korean화산고; RRHwasango) is a 2001 South Korean martial arts action comedy film. It revolves around a troublemaking high school student named Kim Kyung-soo (portrayed by Jang Hyuk) who finds himself transferred to the last school that will take him, the prestigious Volcano High, an institution whose students display an incredible talent in martial arts, with a few demonstrating even more mysterious psychic powers. Kyung-soo is drawn into fights between different clubs, a manuscript that is told to hold great power, and a group of teachers that will do whatever possible to keep the students in line. It was the 9th highest grossing Korean film of 2001 with 1,687,800 admissions nationwide, and had both an original domestic version and edited international version.[1]

  1. ^ "The Best Selling Korean Films of 2001". Koreanfilm.org. Archived from the original on 24 February 2012. Retrieved 13 October 2014.