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RUNTIME
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Tight 72-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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Came To Me And Become A Star
2013 1h 12m KO
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4.2
SKIP
★4.2TMDB · 6
RomanceDrama
Synopsis
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Hajin works at a company that's going through financial difficulties and hasn't been able to pay her for months. Gangseok has a well paying tuition job but his student and family debt and the fact that his mother is in a coma means that he's always short on money. They are both struggling to make it in this cold and difficult reality we call life. One day they end up at a blind date service meeting party and find that they are 98% compatible with each other. Certain random happenings makes Gangseok want to believe that Hajin is the one. But there's one secret that they can't share which is that they're both so poor that they're living at a cheap student hostel. Will they be able to overcome their current situation of hidden poverty and realize true love? Or will the harshness of reality split them apart? A touching and yet coldly realistic love story...
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Cast
Jung So-min
Ha Jin
Kim Ji-seok
Gang Seok
Lee Byung-joon
Byong Soo
Kyung-Min Nam
Kang Mi
Yoo So-young
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Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Hwang Dong-hyuk
- Writers
- Kim Min-jung
- Languages
- Korean
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Cinephile deep dive
The take
Hwang Dong-hyuk directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Dialogue in Korean.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 72-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 2Released 13 years ago.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
- 4Jung So-min and Kim Ji-seok and Lee Byung-joon carry the top of the cast.
- 5IMDB entry: tt6392544 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
- 6Only 6 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 72 min · 1h 12m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- KO
Also by
Hwang Dong-hyuk
Community reviews
What people are saying
- ParkMin★ 4/10
Too many big jumps and cuts that affected its delivery despite wasting some time earlier on. Their relationship/romance was short, there wasn't enough investment to have an impact.
Key crew
Release history · US
When it landed
- TV2013-11-03
