Fly, Penguin

Fly, Penguin — Plot

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.

• Release date
• September 24, 2009
• Runtime
• 110 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Yim Soon-rye

Fly, Penguin — Cast

Moon So-ri Song Hee-jeong Ahn Do-gyu Choi Seung-yoon Choi Gyu-hwan Lee Joo-hoon Cho Jin-woong Han Chang-soo Oh Yong Park Joong-ho Park Won-sang Seung-yoon's father (uncredited) Son Byung-ho Manager Kwon (uncredited) Lee Young-hee Young-sook's Grandmother (uncredited)