Korean Film Festival 2017 at SM City Iloilo

The Korean Film Festival is one of the largest celebrations of Korean cinema in the country, with screenings of the popular Korean films across the country. Spearheaded by the Korean Cultural Center in the Philippines, in cooperation with SM Cinemas, the annual film fest will tour 6 key cities in the country showcasing  5 Korean films of different genres.

SM City Iloilo will host the Korean Film Festival from Sept. 21-24, 2017, to be screened for FREE  at Cinema 8. There will be three screenings per day - 12nn, 3pm and 6pm starting Sept. 22 until Sept. 24, with the following schedule:

Sept. 22  

• 1200NN King of Jokgu
• 0300PM Very Ordinary Couple
• 0600PM My Brilliant Life

Sept. 23  

• 1200NN Twenty
• 0300PM King of Jokgu
• 0600PM How to Steal a Dog

Sept. 24

• 1200NN Very Ordinary Couple
• 0300PM My Brilliant Life
• 0600PM Twenty

Here are the synopsis of the featured films.

How to Steal a Dog

Ten-year-old Ji-so lives in pizza truck with her family. Her father suddenly disappeared after their pizza business went bankrupt. When she sees a missing dog poster with a $500 reward, Ji-so simply believes that that amount of money would be enough to buy her family a house. She hatches a plan with her friend Chae-rang to find a dog with a rich owner, steal it and return the dog by pretending to have found it to get a reward. Their target is Wolly, the dog of an old rich lady who owns the restaurant where Ji-so's mom works.

Twenty

Kyung-jae (Kang Ha-neul) and Dong-woo (Lee Junho) are best friends who've just graduated from high school and turned 20. Chi-ho is an unemployed playboy who prioritizes dating and chasing women. Kyung-jae is a goody-two-shoes university student whose goal is to get accepted at a corporate job.  Happy-go-lucky Dong-woo dreams of becoming a cartoonist but when his family goes bankrupt he is forced to become the breadwinner of the family and take on several part-time jobs. Twenty is a story of three friends in their 20s and must decide what to do with their life.

My Brilliant Life

Dae-soo (Kang Dong-won) and Mi-ra (Song Hye-kyo) were both seventeen-year-old teenagers when Mi-ra became pregnant. Their son Ah-reum was diagnosed with the extremely rare genetic disorder Progeria, which makes him age prematurely and rapidly. Ah-reum grows up as a 16-year-old boy, but with a body condition of an eighty-year-old man. Sensing that he doesn't have much time left, Ah-reum decides to write a story about how his young parents fell in love and how he came to be, hoping to give to them on his seventeenth birthday.

Very Ordinary Couple

Lee Dong-hee (Lee Min-ki) and Jang Young (Kim Min-hee) work at the same bank. They are on an on-and-off relationship for three years before breaking up. Still working together in the same bank puts great pressure on the two, made worse by a scandalous confrontation between the former lovers during a company party. Though they end up screaming at each other, it’s vivid clear that they still have feelings for each other and decide to give their relationship another chance. However, they find that something between them has changed, and despite their best efforts to rekindle their relationship it seems like a happy ending might not be on the cards.

The King of Jokgu

Hong Man-Sub (Ahn Jae-Hong) is a 24-year-old college student majoring in food and nutrition. He is known to be the “King of Jokgu” (a Korean sport that shares elements of both football and volleyball) and is infamous for his unstoppable foot spike. On his return to university after military service, he discovers that the Jokgu court has been removed due to complaints from the Student Council. Man-Sub, along with his team of unlikely friends, decides to file a petition to the school President in order to get the court back.