Frivolous Wife

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Frivolous Wife
Hangul 날나리 종부전
Revised Romanization Nallari Jongbujeon
Directed by Lim Won-kook
Written by Park Yeon-seon
Starring Park Jung-ah
Park Jin-woo
Distributed by Lotte Entertainment
Release date
  • May 22, 2008 (2008-05-22)
Running time
110 minutes
Country South Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeUS$160,719 [1]

Frivolous Wife is a 2008 South Korean romantic comedy film based on William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew . [2] [3]

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Plot

Cheon Yeon-soo is a beautiful, hot-headed college girl whose family became millionaires overnight. She was raised by an over-indulgent father and grew up spoiled. Yeon-soo is used to getting any man she wants, but she falls in love with her polar opposite: awkward and polite Lee Jeong-do. Jeong-do is the only grandson of a very traditional family, and Yeon-soo attempts to transform herself into a proper lady so that her future in-laws will accept her. Little does she know that Jeong-do's family actually heads a notorious mob.

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References

  1. "The Taming of the Shrew". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 17 March 2015.
  2. Thornton Burnett, Mark (2013). Shakespeare and World Cinema. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 240. ISBN   9781107003316.
  3. "Frivolous Wife". Movies & TV Dept. The New York Times . 2015. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2014.