Ji Woo, an outcast in a prestigious private high school, does not fit in due to different social backgrounds than his well-to-do classmates. One day, he meets Hak Sung, the school’s security guard who is actually a mathematical genius defected from North Korea, now living with his past shut away. Ji Woo asks Hak Sung to teach him math, and although reluctant at first, Hak Sung eventually agrees to it. Finding each other in their most difficult times, Ji Woo and Hak Sung open up to one another during their special math lessons, but their friendship is at risk when Ji Woo is framed for an incident in school, and Hak Sung is faced with people prying on his past. (Source: Koreanfilm.or.kr) Edit Translation
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- Native Title: 이상한 나라의 수학자
- Also Known As: Mathematician of a Wonderland , Mathematician in Wonderland , Isanghan Naraui Suhakja
- Director: Park Dong Hoon
- Screenwriter: Lee Yong Jae
- Genres: Life, Drama
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Cast & Credits
- Choi Min ShikRi Hak SungMain Role
- Kim Dong HwiHan Ji WooMain Role
- Park Byung EunKim Geun Ho [Teacher]Support Role
- Park Hae JoonAhn Gi ChulSupport Role
- Jo Yoon SeoPark Bo Ram [Ji Woo's classmate]Support Role
- Tang Jun SangLee Tae Yeon [Hak Sung's son]Support Role
Reviews
More important than the answer is the process of finding the answer
I haven't seen an interesting movie in a long time. The acting of the high school actors was good, but as expected, actor Choi Min-sik seems to be a trustworthy movie actor. In the fun part, he makes the movie not boring while acting cheerfully, and in important lines, he gives a serious acting to convey a message to the audience, so the movie is expressed more deliciously. Besides Choi Min-sik, the chemistry with Jo Yoon-seo, who played the female lead, Park Bo-ram, and Kim Dong-hwi, who plays Han Ji-woo, was also very good. You did a great job in acting as a fresh high school student. If it was a little disappointing, I felt that the content was a little distracting at the end of the movie. When watching this movie, I felt that it contained more meaning when viewed from a different point of view from a mathematical point of view.If you look at it from the point of view of life, not just math, it's a very good word. As I was living my life, I looked back at my life to see if I had lived only by the results. It made me think about how I should live my life.
I advise you to watch the movie even if you hate math...
Finding back the love of learning
A lot of times people have slowly forgotten the purpose of learning like how we used to be. Education had somehow become a tool or an instrument just for the sake of competing for qualifications, to use it as a weapon to threaten others, or it's just another money game to further widen the class difference between rich and poor, as what has been depicted in the movie. In fact, learning should be an excitement of discovering something with the intention of interest in it, instead of just using it to survive, but sadly there's only so few people that do so. In this case, the movie tried to achieve a pure heart for learning mathematics with the chemistry between Choi Minsik and Kim Donghwi that is so impeccable because no matter if we're old or young, learning should be a fun thing as how it always should be from the beginning.