Love On-Air
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- Movie: Love On-Air (International English title) / Wonderful Radio (literal title)
- Revised romanization: Wondeopul Radio
- Hangul: 원더풀 라디오
- Director: Kwon Chil-In
- Writer: Lee Jae-Ik
- Producer: Jung Kyoung-Il
- Cinematographer:
- Release Date: January 5, 2012
- Runtime: 120 min.
- Distributor: Showbox/Mediaplex
- Language: Korean
- Country: South Korea
Plot
Jin-A is the former leader of idol group Purple, one of the first generation of girl groups in South Korea and also the most popular at that time. She now hosts the radio program "Wonderful Radio," but the program suffers from low ratings. The show's producer then takes time off to give birth. Her replacement is Lee Jae-Ik (Lee Jung-Jin).
Jin-A is late for her first meeting with PD Lee Jae-Ik. Because of this, PD Lee Jae-Ik gets an unfavorable impression of Jin-A and their relationship soon turns worse. During the meeting, PD Lee Jae-Ik instructs the staff to create a new section for the radio program to increase ratings.
Jin-A struggles to come up with a new idea for the radio program. Then, after listening to her mom sing, she suddenly gets an idea. Jin-A wants to invite regular people onto the show and let them read their own stories or letters. The guests will also sing during the segment.
The new segment becomes a hit. Meanwhile, Jin-A attempts to resume her music career and sing songs like "You Are My Angel" that she wrote for her girl group Purple.
A woman then introduces herself on Jin-A's radio program and insists that she wrote the song "You Are My Angel." Jin-A becomes flustered then angry. She even uses profanity while on air. After the program Jin-A is kicked off the radio program. The public also becomes outraged by what they perceive as plagiarism on Jin-A's part. Can Jin-A ever revive her career?
Notes
- Filming took place from June 27 - September 18, 2011.
- "Love On-Air" opened #2 at during its opening weekend at the South Korean Box Office. Movie sold 314,978 tickets on 476 screens. By February 4, 2012 "Love On-Air" sold 950,793 tickets.
Cast
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| Lee Min-Jung | Lee Jung-Jin | Lee Kwang-Soo | Kim Jung-Tae | Jung Yoo-Mi |
| Shin Jin-A | Lee Jae-Ik | Cha Dae-Keun | In-Suk | Nan-Seol |
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| Kim Byung-Ok | Jeong Man-Sik | Jo Jung-Eun |
| Director Im | Ja-Hyung | Da-Hee |
Additional Cast Members:
- Kim Hae-Suk - Jin-A's mother
- Han Yeo-Woon - Jin-A's friend
- Seo-Young - Mi-Ra
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Ki Says:
Jan 05 2012 6:24 am
Must say LOVE ON-AIR turns out to be quite the disappointing film. From the very beginning I didn't find actress Lee Min-Jung's performing convincing (it felt very forced) and lead male actor Lee Jung-Jin seemed completely miscast for his role. For whatever reasons I just didn't believe he was a radio show producer.
The movie's storyline (at least for the first half) seemed very similar with 2006 movie RADIO STAR. A former pop singer works as a radio show host and they start to incorporate "touching" stories from readers. The primary difference between the two films is that LOVE ON-AIR seems to try to target the younger audience by emulating the style of movie director Kang Hyung-Chul ala SPEED SCANDAL. Unfortunately, this also didn't work. The touching scenes with the radio show guests felt insincere in LOVE ON-AIR and just too abrupt to elicit genuine emotions. The second half of the movie takes on a different approach and covers a pure pop music career comeback story and by this time I didn't really care.
One postitive that movie LOVE ON-AIR did for me was to bring about more respect for Kang Hyung-Chul's prior films SPEED SCANDAL and SUNNY. The way Kang Hyung-Chul effortlessly blends music with feel-good comedies comes off so smooth that at times it's easy to overlook the talent needed to make such a film. LOVE ON-AIR proves it ain't quite that easy. Very far from it really. LOVE ON-AIR seems to do everything wrong. Ouch!
laah Says:
Jan 04 2012 1:11 am
i'm going to watch it because of kwangsu :))
annie Says:
Dec 10 2011 7:13 am
I am a little bit disappointed about lee kwang soo character in this movie, i thought he will become cool manager, but in the end he is still to be a gagman manager, hehe
I wanna see lee kwang soo act like gentleman and cool character in a movie, hope i can see him again in next movie
Zhee Says:
Nov 25 2011 5:07 am
i just want to see kwang su oppa ^^~