Architecture 101 (2012)

• Year: 2012
• Released: 22 Mar 2012
• Country: South Korea
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• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2337981/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/architecture_101
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• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: Korean
• MPA Rating: G
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Runtime: 118 min
• Writer: Ji-hye Kim, Lee Yong-ju
• Director: Lee Yong-ju
• Cast: Tae-woong Eom, Ga-in Han, Lee Jehoon
• Keywords: architect, jeju island, seoul, south korea, campus romance,

	7.2/10
	79% – Critics
	79% – Audience

Architecture 101 Storyline

35-year-old architect Seung-Min receives a visit at his office from a woman. Seung-Min doesn’t recognize the woman at first, but then realizes the woman is Seo-Yeon. Seo-Yeon is his first love, but he hasn’t seen her since his freshman year in college. Seo-Yeon now has a request. She wants to hire Seung-Min to rebuild her home on Jeju Island. 15 years ago, Seung-Min is a naive young man beginning his architecture studies in college. He first meets Seo-Yeon in his Architecture 101 class. As they work on a class project together, Seung-Min and Seo-Yeon begin to fall in love. Back to the present day, Seung-Min is hesitant to take Seo-Yeon’s job offer. Seo-Yeon persists and even goes to his boss with her wish. Seung-Min now has no choice, but to take on Seo-Yeon’s home project. Old memories of love and heartbreak will soon resurface, as they find themselves at different junctions in their lives.—Stanislav S, Sochi, Russia

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A love story I could relate with

This isn’t the most amazing love story that really really tugs at the heartstrings. But what I liked about it was how it doesn’t try to go in a over sappy direction to win the audiences attention. Which a lot of Asian dramas and movies tends to do when it comes to this type of genre. What really stood out to me about this movie is how every dialogue and how the characters communicate amongst each other is very believable. And even can relate with and that is the key word in this movie “relate”. It’s believable for the most pare because you can relate with it, well at least for those that had there first crush. Anyways I found this movie to be realistic when it comes to the direction all the way to the end. It doesn’t try to go in a fantasy love story but it sometimes gets a bit emotional in a good way. Because at least for me I could see parts of me in this movie when it came to my first crush. The plot is told between two different time periods when the guy starts falling for a classmate at a university and when they are adults later on and the guy is now a architect. And it constantly goes back and forth when it comes to the time period. But it’s done in a coherent manner and further develops the plot while keeping certain things untold until it goes into the past or sometimes into the present. Overall I enjoyed this movie, the actors and actresses did a good job. Especially Lee Je-Hoon, I don’t know about the actress and singer Suzy though because she just doesn’t seem all that versatile when it comes to acting. But her character really fit this movie so don’t have much complaint on that. This is a movie that some viewers can relate with and if so than your gonna like this movie even more.

7.9/10

Cultural differences lead to some misunderstandings

This review is primarily written to give some explanations with in-depth knowledges about Korea.

lilyengleman expressed his disgust with valid points – by western standards.

However, if he knew the Korean culture and laws back in 90’s he would have found the film to be realistic.

Seoul is divided in two parts, north and south of the river, the south being the more wealthy one. While the southerners mostly don’t exactly look down at people from other parts, the northern people very often have so called poverty-complex. That applies to the boy.

Similarly, there is something that can be called province-complex: people not living in Seoul feel like 2nd class citizens. This applies to the girl from Jeju island (almost southern most touristic location)

Below is the list what the girl said and did:

1) She is an outsider in her music class. The other girls look down at her for having no “class”

2) She praises the senior student for being handsome, tall, and rich.

3) She dreams of becoming a famous TV announcer and getting married to a rich man.

4) She keeps riding with the senior student even after the boy is pi$$ed and gets out of the car. (fake GUESS incident)

5) She moved to the crappy base floor room. (presumeably only to have an address in the southern part)

The boy was too young and inexperienced to know that the girl most probably did 2) to make him jealous. In addition, he didn’t understand that 3) and 5) are perfectly normal for a young girl, especially from a province.

Now let’s take a look at an old Korean law: marriage scam was a capital crime, almost as severe as rape If a man beds a woman with a promise to marry her, he’s stuck. The woman can sue him unless he actually marries her.

Many women misused this law: allure a young man from a rich family, sleep with him once, and force him to marry her – poverty problem solved. And that’s what the boy thought the girl was doing.

I hope my explanation to clarify things that seem odd to some foreign people.

The film was quite a pleasant surprise for me since I usually don’t watch Korean films. The film is a really well produced one with decent actors except for the main actress(presence). She can’t act!!!

That’s why I don’t give a perfect 10 but a 9.

Wanted to like this movie …

Everything other reviewers have said about this Korean movie is true. However, it makes me upset that everyone, including my Korean wife, refuse to accept the fact that the main male character essentially allowed the “love of his life” to get raped when she was nearly passed out drunk by another man and did nothing about it except stand at the front door for a moment. It’s a disgusting representation of how acceptable and common this behavior is here when women drink too much. If it weren’t for this one scene the movie would be golden. Yet it exists. And what upsets me more I cannot say … that the scene is in the movie, or the acceptance it’s met with.