My Little Bride


My Little Bride is a 2004 South Korean romantic comedy film about a teenage girl who tries to continue her normal social and school life, after her grandfather forces her into an arranged marriage with a man in his twenties. With 3,149,500 tickets sold, it was the second most popular domestic film at the Korean box office in 2004, and fourth most popular overall.
My Little Bride is a Korean remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film My Wife Is 18, starring Charlene Choi and Ekin Cheng.

Plot

Bo-eun is an ordinary 15-year-old high school girl who worries about grades and has a crush on her school's baseball team ace, Jung-woo. One day, Bo-eun's grandfather orders her to marry Sang-min because of a pact he made with Sang-min's grandfather during the Korean War. Despite the grandchildren's opposition, they are forced to marry because of Bo-eun's grandfather's strong influence. However, later on in the story, it is revealed that Sang-min actually loves Bo-eun. Bo-eun's undercover married life begins: She pretends that she doesn't have a husband and starts dating Jung-woo. And her only best friend cannot help but to be envious of Bo-eun as she also has a crush on Jung-woo. But Bo-eun believes that she can manage both men and live a double life. Everything goes smoothly until Sang-min becomes an art teacher at Bo-eun's school and the duo have to try to keep their marriage a secret. From there, their relationship begins to grow. After an incident, Bo-eun's family finds out about Jung-woo. After talking to her mother, Bo-eun finally realizes that she loves Sang-min. At the school festival she breaks up with Jung-woo and confesses her feelings to Sang-min in front of the whole school.

Cast

  • Kim Rae-won as Sang-min
  • Moon Geun-young as Bo-eun
  • Park Jin-woo as Lee Jung-woo
  • Shin Se-kyung as Hye-won, Bo-eun's friend
  • Ahn Sun-young as Teacher Kim
  • Kim Bo-kyung as Ji-soo
  • Kim In-moon as Bo-eun's grandfather
  • Song Ki-yoon as Bo-eun's father
  • Sunwoo Eun-sook as Bo-eun's mother
  • Han Jin-hee as Sang-min's father
  • Kim Hye-ok as Sang-min's mother
  • Yoon Chan as Yong-joo
  • Ryu Deok-hwan as Dong-goo
  • Kim Han as Young-chul

    Soundtrack

  1. Childhood memories
  2. My Love - Shim Eun-jin
  3. Sad gratitude
  4. Happy Time
  5. Flirt
  6. Sad Sang-min
  7. Look at me - Park Se-ryung
  8. First love
  9. I don't know about love yet - Moon Geun-young
  10. Mural of love
  11. Shopping center
  12. Letter
  13. The clown is laughing at me - 공주파 3인
  14. Confession at the auditorium
  15. Epilogue
  16. I don't know about love yet - Kim Hye-jin
  17. I don't know about love yet - Jeon Woo-joo
  18. I don't know about love yet
  19. My Love

    Release

My Little Bride was released in South Korea on April 2, 2004. In the Philippines, the film was released by Korea Pictures with a Tagalog dub on November 23, 2005.

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