Korean Movies Opening Today 2023/01/02 in Korea

Published on 2023/01/02 | Source

Korean movies opening today 2023/01/02 in Korea: "Marie Antoinette" and "Oh! My Assistant: The Movie"

"Marie Antoinette" (2022)

Synopsis
What justice do we dream of?

The appearance of a French palace decorated with numerous lights unfolds. The time is 1784. In the middle of a splendid palace, among the aristocrats adorned with all kinds of jewels, Marie Antoinette appears overwhelmingly.
As the ball is welling up, an uninvited guest named Margrid Arnaud suddenly arrives.
Margrid appeals for the poor lives of them and the citizens, but all he gets is callous ridicule from the nobles.

Meanwhile, to Marie Antoinette, who leads the latest fashion in Paris her jeweler Boehmer comes to visit and tries to sell her an expensive diamond necklace, but is rejected by her.

The Duke of Orléans, the street poet Jacques Hébert, and Margrid Arnaud, all trying to bring down Marie Antoinette for different reasons, create all sorts of scandals about her perfection and spread false rumors about her.

It started with a necklace that jeweler Boehmer was trying to sell to Marie Antoinette. When Marie Antoinette gets embroiled in an unfair incident, she is criticized by the people.

In the midst of this, public dissatisfaction explodes, and the so-called 'politics of terror', led by the Jacobin Party, begins.

With the help of Count Axel von Fersen, who loves Marie Antoinette, the royal family tries to escape, but is captured in Varennes and humiliated by returning to Paris.

After her husband Louis XVI was executed by guillotine, Marie Antoinette also disappears into the dew of her sentence after a public trial.

Watching this whole process, Margrid asks himself what true justice is.

"Oh! My Assistant: The Movie" (2022)

Directed by Joo Sung-min-I

With Song Seung-hyun, Ko Chan-bin, Lee Do-ha, Seo Hyo-myung,...

Theatrical version of "Oh! My Assistant"
Synopsis
Seon-ho (Song Seung-hyun) is a writer who authors web-based comic strips (webtoons). In order to make ends meet, he decided to start creating "19+" titles - erotica intended only for those aged 19 and above. His comics are wildly popular, but they have had a very strange effect on his libido: He cannot fell arousal since he started writing these webtoons some two years ago. As his workload begins to pile up, Seon-ho decides to hire a new assistant. He appoints Moo-yeong (Ko Chan-bin).

But Moo-yeong turns out to be no ordinary assistant - he has actually taken the job because he is Seon-ho's number one fan. He is also besotted with the writer - and hopes to start a relationship with him. The sparks of romance begin to fly between the two. But there is a catch: A male acquaintance named Joon-seok (Lee Do-ha) - who has a girlfriend - begins to take a shine to Moo-yeong. Could a love triangle be forming? And will Seon-ho rediscover his lost passion?