An Affair
Theatrical poster
Korean name
Hangul
정사
Hanja
Revised RomanizationJeongsa
McCune–ReischauerChŏngsa
Directed byE J-yong
Written by
Produced by
  • Oh Jeong-wan
  • Lee Se-ho
Starring
CinematographyKim Young-cheol
Edited byHahm Sung-won
Music byJo Seong-woo
Release date
  • October 3, 1998 (1998-10-03)
Running time
108 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean

An Affair (Korean: 정사; RR: Jeongsa) is a 1998 South Korean film.[1] The quiet film about a woman who falls in love with her sister's fiancé was the seventh-highest-grossing Korean film of 1998 and won the Best Asian Film award at the 1999 Newport Beach International Film Festival.

Plot

Seo-hyun is an ordinary housewife in her late thirties with a ten-year-old son and a successful architect husband. For Seo-hyun, life is a series of banal routines, but she is well provided with upper class comforts. Her sheltered life is suddenly threatened with the appearance of U-in, her much younger sister's attractive new fiancé. U-in approaches Seo-hyun and attraction evolves into a passionate affair. Seo-hyun is aware that falling for the younger man will destroy her and her family, but she cannot help herself and the new feelings that are stirring within...

Cast list

References

  1. ^ Elley, Derek (1998-11-30). "An Affair". Variety. Retrieved 2023-11-04.

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Films directed by E J-yong
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