Lifting King Kong

Lift up the world!

Lifting King Kong — Plot

Lee Ji-Bong is a former Olympics bronze medalist for weight-lifting, but a career-ending injury from the games forces him into early retirement. Unable to find another vocation, he becomes destitute. Down and out, he ends up working at a shady nightclub passing out flyers until he is visited by his former coach who insists he begin a career as a coach at a high school. There, he forms a weight-lifting team comprised of a rag-tag group of outcasts.

• Release date
• July 1, 2009
• Runtime
• 120 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Park Gun-yong

Lifting King Kong — Cast

Lee Beom-soo Lee Ji-bong Jo An Park Young-ja Moon Choi Seo Yeo-soon Kim Min-young Lee Bo-young Byun Hee-bong School Superintendent Ki Joo-bong Director Baek (cameo) Ahn Yong-jun In-ho Lim Seung-dae Doctor