An Affair

1998 South Korean film

An Affair
Theatrical poster

Korean name
Hangul	정사
Hanja	情事
Revised Romanization	Jeongsa
McCune–Reischauer	Chŏngsa

Directed by	E J-yong
Written by	Kim Dae-woo E J-yong
Produced by	Oh Jeong-wan Lee Se-ho
Starring	Lee Mi-sook Lee Jung-jae Kim Min
Cinematography	Kim Young-cheol
Edited by	Hahm Sung-won
Music by	Jo Seong-woo
Release date	October 3, 1998 (1998-10-03)
Running time	108 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean

An Affair (Korean: 정사; RR: Jeongsa) is a 1998 South Korean film.^[1] The quiet film about a woman who falls in love with her sister's fiancé was the seventh-highest-grossing Korean film of 1998 and won the Best Asian Film award at the 1999 Newport Beach International Film Festival.

Plot

Seo-hyun is an ordinary housewife in her late thirties with a ten-year-old son and a successful architect husband. For Seo-hyun, life is a series of banal routines, but she is well provided with upper class comforts. Her sheltered life is suddenly threatened with the appearance of U-in, her much younger sister's attractive new fiancé. U-in approaches Seo-hyun and attraction evolves into a passionate affair. Seo-hyun is aware that falling for the younger man will destroy her and her family, but she cannot help herself and the new feelings that are stirring within...