Architecture 101 (2012)
"Geon-chook-hak-gae-ron" (original title)

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 ... See full summary »

Director:

Yong-Joo Lee

Writer:

Yong-Joo Lee

Stars:

Tae-woong Eom, Ga-in Han, Je-hoon Lee

2 wins & 4 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview:
Tae-woong Eom	...	Seung-min - Present
Ga-in Han	...	Present Seo-Yeon
Je-hoon Lee	...	Seung-min - Past
Suzy	...	Past Seo-Yeon (as Su Ji Bae)
Jun-hee Ko	...	Eun-chae
Jo Jeong-Seok	...	Nabddeuckyi
Yeon-Seok Yoo	...	Jae-wook
Dong Joo Kim	...	Seung-Min's mother
Dong Joo Kim	...	Seung-Min's Mother
Seung-Ho Lee	...	Seo-yeon's father
Eui-sung Kim	...	Professor Kang
Su-young Park	...	Director Goo
Hyeon-cheol Jo	...	Dong-goo

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.

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Plot Keywords:

architect | flashback

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Genres:

Romance

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [South Korea]

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Release Date:

22 March 2012 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

An Introduction to Architecture

Company Credits

Technical Specs

Runtime:

118 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Soundtracks

"Etude of Memories"
Performed by Exhibition

User Reviews

Korea does it again

I have loved Korean films since like forever. Im not a Korean so I rely on English subtitles to watch Korean movies, usually this is frustrating since it takes a long time for the subtitles to be available, but for this film it took only 3 days! compared to for example Nameless gangster which was released around April but still no subs! This proves how popular architecture 101 must be... and it deserves that attention.

Today way too many films are too cliché and over-exaggerated, there are few films which you can see the reflection of yourself in it, not even a tiny bit. I am not saying that this film is portraying my life but I think few people can deny that you cant relate with any of the characters. How many people haven't once during the course of their life been Seung-min? Having liked someone that greatly but lacking the courage to say it? How may are just like Seo-yeon? Regretting, wanting to go back in time and change everything..

The actors all did a great job, Han Ga In is out of this world pretty and Lee Je-Hoon seems to be a really promising actor together with Suzy. The reason I did not give the film a 10 is because the ending, which, to say the least, could have been much better, and I'm not talking about the outcome but rather the way to end it. However this is still a very very good movie and if you have never seen a Korean film before I advice you to give it a try as it Im sure after watching this movie, Korean films will stick by you forever, just like me who after that rainy day i decided to give the film Brotherhood of war a go never looked back.