Scandal Makers
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| Hangul | |
| Hanja | 스캔들 |
| Revised Romanization | Gwasok Seukaendeul |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kwasok Sŭk'aendŭl |
| Directed by | Kang Hyeong-cheol |
| Produced by |
Ahn Byeong-ki Sin Hye-yeon |
| Written by | Kang Hyeong-cheol |
| Starring |
Cha Tae-hyun Park Bo-young |
| Music by | Kim Jun-seok |
| Cinematography | Kim Jun-young |
| Edited by | Nam Na-yeong |
| Distributed by | Lotte Entertainment |
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Running time
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108 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Box office | US$47.9 million |
Scandal Makers (Hangul: 과속스캔들; RR: Gwasok Seukaendeul; lit. Speedy Scandal) is a 2008 South Korean film written and directed by Kang Hyeong-cheol and starring Cha Tae-hyun in the lead role. This was director Kang's first film and the highest grossing Korean film of the year. A Chinese remake was released in 2016.
Former teen idol Nam Hyeon-soo (Cha Tae-hyun) is now in his thirties and works as a radio DJ. A young woman named Hwang Jeong-nam (Park Bo-young) sends stories about her life as a single mother to the radio station Hyeon-soo works at, telling him she is going to meet her father. He then finds out that he's her father when she shows up at his apartment with her son Ki-dong (Wang Seok-hyeon). She tells him that her real name is Jae-in and that her mother was Hyeon-soo's first love Jeong-nam. Hyeon-soo doesn't believe it at first, so they undergo a DNA test and the results confirm that they're related. Jae-in dreams of performing on stage as a singer, but Hyeon-soo fears that if she does, their paternity scandal might get out. Because of Jae-in's rising popularity, Ki-dong's father Park Sang-yoon (Im Ji-kyu) finds her. They meet and chat, with Sang-yoon initially under the mistaken assumption that Jae-in is romantically involved with Hyeon-soo. When Ki-dong later goes missing at Jae-in's performance, Hyeon-soo realizes that he really does care for his daughter and grandson.
Scandal Makers was released in South Korea on 3 December 2008, and topped the box office on its opening weekend with 473,725 admissions. It continued to chart well finishing with over 8 million tickets sold becoming the highest grossing Korean film of 2008. The second highest grosser was The Good, The Bad, The Weird with 6.6 million tickets, then The Chaser with roughly 5 million tickets sold.
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