Fly, Penguin

Story

Synopsis

Seung-yun is stressed out because he is sent to several private academies after school. His mother reproves him for not living up to her expectations. His father takes pity on him for being nagged on by his mother all the time... Ju-hun, a new employee at a company, is a vegetarian and cannot drink alcohol at all. Chang-su thinks Ju-hun is eccentric and is displeased with him... Su-hyeong sent his son and daughter with his wife to study abroad, but he grows tired of staying alone in his empty house... SONG has lived with her authoritarian husband without any serious problems, but she does not want to stay with him anymore. GWON, an old man, pretends to be calm in the face of his wife’s request for divorce. But actually he can’t do anything by himself... These are not unfamiliar fictional events but rather they reflect the lives of ordinary people in Korea at the present time. Through their stories, shows us how a society imposes normalcy on its people in their daily lives.

Director

Yim Soon-rye

Writers

Yim Soon-rye

Language

Korean

Country

South Korea

Release date

24 September 2009

Ensemble

Cast

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  Moon So-ri

  Song Hee-jeong

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  Ahn Do-gyu

  Choi Seung-yoon

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  Choi Gyu-hwan

  Lee Joo-hoon

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  Cho Jin-woong

  Han Chang-soo

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  Oh Yong

  Park Joong-ho

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  Park Won-sang

  Seung-yoon's father (uncredited)

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  Son Byung-ho

  Manager Kwon (uncredited)

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  Lee Young-hee

  Young-sook's Grandmother (uncredited)

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  Na Hyun

  Sashimi Restaurant Owner (uncredited)

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  Choi Hee-jin

  Jo Mi-sun

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  Park In-hwan

  Elder Kwon

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  Lee Eun-saem

  Soo-ji