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이상한 나라의 수학자

By Dong-Hoon PARK

EMPHASIS VIDEO ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED - as DISTR Airline, World

Drama - Completed 2022

A struggling pupil in a prestigious high school asks his school’s security guard, a North Korean defector and mathematical genius, to teach him maths. However, after the pupil is framed for an incident, their friendship is put at risk.

- Year of production
- 2022
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- KOREA (South)
- Languages
- KOREAN
- Duration
- 117 mn
- Director(s)
- Dong-Hoon PARK
- Cast
- Min-Sik CHOI, Dong-Hwi KIM
- Synopsis
- Ji-woo (Kim), an outcast in a prestigious private high school, does not fit in due to a different social background from his well-to-do classmates. One day, he meets Hak-sung (Choi), the school’s security guard who is actually a mathematical genius defected from North Korea, now living with his past shut away. Ji-woo asks Hak-sung to teach him maths and although reluctant at first, Hak-sung eventually agrees. Finding each other in their most difficult times, Ji-woo and Hak-sung open up to one another but their friendship is at risk when Ji-woo is framed for an incident in school and Hak-sung is faced with people prying on his past.