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- Movie: Taekwondo
- Revised romanization: Ibangin
- Hangul: 이방인
- Director: Seung-wook Moon
- Writer: Maria Goralczyk, Seung-wook Moon, Wojciech Ziminski
- Producer: Ki-min Oh, Maciej Skalski, In-taek Yoo
- Cinematographer: Andrzej Jaroszewicz
- Release Date: February 14, 1998
- Runtime: 92 min.
- Language: Polish, Korean
- Country: Poland, South Korea
Plot
Kim (Ahn Sung-Kee) left his homeland, wife and daughter 13 years ago to roam Europe, finally settling in Poland, where he opened a taekwondo gym. Solitary by nature and perhaps atoning for a wilder youth, he holds himself above the fray of the grungy, crime-ridden area in which he lives, penning unanswered letters to his daughter.
Two relationships gradually draw him into the social fabric of Poland and provide separate challenges to his contained existence: an initially casual, eventually warm friendship with a freewheeling young blonde, Jola (Ewa Gawryluk) , and an edgy master-pupil relationship with a young thug, Michal (Pawel Burczyk), who enrolls in his classes. - Variety
Cast
- Ahn Sung-Kee - Kim
- Pawel Burczyk - Michal
- Ewa Gawryluk - Jola
- Bartosz Opania - Young Pole
- Michal Bukowski - Marek
- Waldemar Barwinski - Michal's Friend
- Jerzy Lapinski - Barber
- Pawel Nowisz - Janitor
- Hanna Polk - Cashier
- Leon Charewicz - Flat Owner
- Slawomir Orzechowski - Dissatisfied Customer at the Restaurant
- Cezary Zak - Restaurant Owner
- Janusz Bukowski - Michal's Father
- Mariusz Leszczynski - Janitor at the Sports Club
- Ernestyna Winnicka - Mother of the Boy Attending Taekwondo Lesson
- Kim Ji-Sook - voice
