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My Little Bride
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Korean name
Hangul	어린 신부
Hanja	어린 新婦
Revised Romanization	Eorin Sinbu
McCune–Reischauer	Ŏrin Sinbu
Directed by	Kim Ho-jun
Written by	Yoo Soon-il
Produced by	Choi Soon-shik
Starring	Kim Rae-won Moon Geun-young
Cinematography	Seo Jeong-min
Edited by	Park Soon-deok
Music by	Choi Soon-shik Choi Man-shik
Distributed by	Korea Pictures
Release date	April 2, 2004 (2004-04-02)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean

My Little Bride (Korean: 어린 신부; RR: Eorin sinbu) is a 2004 South Korean romantic comedy film about a teenage girl (Moon Geun-young) who tries to continue her normal social and school life, after her grandfather forces her into an arranged marriage with a man in his twenties (Kim Rae-won). With 3,149,500 tickets sold, it was the second most popular domestic film at the Korean box office in 2004 (behind blockbuster Taegukgi), and fourth most popular overall.

My Little Bride is a Korean remake of the 2002 Hong Kong film My Wife Is 18, starring Charlene Choi and Ekin Cheng.

Plot

Bo-eun (Moon Geun-young) is an ordinary 15-year-old high school girl who worries about grades and has a crush on her school's baseball team ace, Jung-woo. One day, Bo-eun's grandfather orders her to marry Sang-min (Kim Rae-won) because of a pact he made with Sang-min's grandfather during the Korean War. Despite the grandchildren's opposition, they are forced to marry because of Bo-eun's grandfather's strong influence. However, later on in the story, it is revealed that Sang-min actually loves Bo-eun. Bo-eun's undercover married life begins: She pretends that she doesn't have a husband and starts dating Jung-woo. And her only best friend cannot help but to be envious of Bo-eun as she also has a crush on Jung-woo. But Bo-eun believes that she can manage both men and live a double life. Everything goes smoothly until Sang-min becomes an art teacher at Bo-eun's school and the duo have to try to keep their marriage a secret. From there, their relationship begins to grow. After an incident, Bo-eun's family finds out about Jung-woo. After talking to her mother, Bo-eun finally realizes that she loves Sang-min. At the school festival she breaks up with Jung-woo and confesses her feelings to Sang-min in front of the whole school.

Cast

• Kim Rae-won as Sang-min
• Moon Geun-young as Bo-eun
• Park Jin-woo as Lee Jung-woo
• Shin Se-kyung as Hye-won, Bo-eun's friend
• Ahn Sun-young as Teacher Kim
• Kim Bo-kyung as Ji-soo
• Kim In-moon as Bo-eun's grandfather
• Song Ki-yoon as Bo-eun's father
• Sunwoo Eun-sook as Bo-eun's mother
• Han Jin-hee as Sang-min's father
• Kim Hye-ok as Sang-min's mother
• Yoon Chan as Yong-joo
• Ryu Deok-hwan as Dong-goo
• Kim Han as Young-chul

Soundtrack

1. Childhood memories
2. My Love - Shim Eun-jin
3. Sad gratitude
4. Happy Time
5. Flirt
6. Sad Sang-min
7. Look at me - Park Se-ryung
8. First love
9. I don't know about love yet - Moon Geun-young
10. Mural of love
11. Shopping center
12. Letter
13. The clown is laughing at me - 공주파 3인
14. Confession at the auditorium
15. Epilogue
16. I don't know about love yet - Kim Hye-jin
17. I don't know about love yet - Jeon Woo-joo
18. I don't know about love yet (Inst.)
19. My Love (Inst.)

Release

My Little Bride was released in South Korea on April 2, 2004. In the Philippines, the film was released by Korea Pictures with a Tagalog dub on November 23, 2005.

Accolades

References

1. "The Best Selling Films of 2004" Archived 2011-10-08 at the Wayback Machine. Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2013-08-26.
2. "Grand Opening Today!". Philippine Daily Inquirer. The Philippine Daily Inquirer, Inc. November 23, 2005. p. A2-2. Archived from the original on September 26, 2022. Retrieved September 26, 2022. No. 1 Top Grossing Korean Romantic Comedy for 2004

External links

• My Little Bride at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
• My Little Bride at IMDb

• 2004 films
• 2004 romantic comedy films
• 2000s teen romance films
• South Korean romantic comedy films
• 2000s teen films
• 2000s South Korean films
• 2000s Korean-language films