Directed by: Jeong Gi-hoon / 정기훈
Release date: September 2009
Ae-ja has always been a 청개구리
(green frog, ask a Korean) and she is in constant conflict with authority,
including her high school teachers and her mother. Part of her rebelliousness
may be because of her mother’s favoritism for Ae-ja’s brother, who has a slight
disability. Ten years go by and Ae-ja is now a struggling writer living in Seoul and is as contrary
as ever. When she comes home to Busan, she disrupts everything, including her
brother’s love life and wedding. When her mother collapses and ends up in the
hospital, Ai-ja and her mom are thrown together again and must now re-define
their relationship, but it is not a smooth road as her mother shows her chung-kae-gu-ri side as well.
Ae-ja and her mother make
amusing characters to watch, especially Ae-ja who constantly shoots herself in
the foot but just can’t stop being the head-strong individualist that she is. The
hospital scenes got a little repetitive. My take: C
Matchmaker, friend Hyeon-jin,
and Ae-ja’s mother peruse
photos of potential candidates for groom for Ae-ja,
while Ae-ja sulks
(uncredited, Sa Hyeon-jin, Kim Yeong-ae, and Choi Kang-hee).
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