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Lee Shi-young’s quirky new rom-com

by girlfriday

Lee Shi-young really does have a great niche carved out as a quirky rom-com heroine. She’s got a new movie due out next month called, hilariously, Men: An Operating Manual. (It’s the best way to translate it without calling the thing How to Use Men, which sounds like a whole other thing entirely.) Her leading man is Oh Jung-sae, who’s playing one of the better characters in the current MBC drama I Miss You — Yoochun’s partner, the funny cop. I’d much rather watch the drama where those two get their happily ever after. Get to it, fanfic!

It’s the first project from newbie director Lee Won-suk, and there’s a 2008 sitcom with the same title that I think is loosely a similar premise, but not the exact same thing. Park Young-kyu plays a quack dating guru, Dr. Swaltsky, who advertises that he knows the world’s best-kept secret: how to operate a man. He advertises to lonely single women that with his secrets, they can get Jang Dong-gun, Jung Woo-sung, or Hyun Bin. That doesn’t sound like a scam at all!

Lee Shi-young plays Choi Bo-na, a woman who can’t even remember the last real relationship she had. But one day she gets her hands on this manual, and she follows it to the letter, and suddenly men are falling all over themselves to get her attention. And then, just like Dr. Swaltsky says, she catches the attention of a top star (played by Oh Jung-sae). But, uh, Jang Dong-gun he is not, which is kinda the point — he’s the diva without the creds, and I think he’s going to be hilarious.

It seems like the self-help video itself will be a big part of the movie, peppered throughout to cheestastic effect. It’s also a dating manual, so it’ll figure into how she goes about the relationship, which can only end in tears for her but will probably mean laughs for us. Cute.

Men: An Operating Manual hits theaters in February.

Via Xports News

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26 maracarrero

January 12, 2013 at 6:43 PM

I love these two actors. They define comedy. Putting this on my must watch list.

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27 bd

January 12, 2013 at 9:05 PM

LSY has a "chameleon" face that is very expressive.

In a couple of the pics, she looks like the actress who played the not very talented shaman in "Arang."

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28 jann

January 12, 2013 at 9:13 PM

It's been a year and LSY is still finding it hard to grow her hair...damn that cut from wild romance! Anyway, this movie sounds great,,,I love that guy and they'll be so cute together!! I think he used to stalk her in the movie 'couples'...

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29 starryskyes

January 13, 2013 at 1:50 AM

Wow, this movie looks really cute :) Can't wait to watch it!

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30 Bu Young

January 13, 2013 at 4:16 AM

Lee Si Young is adorable!
I'd love to watch this!

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31 amber

January 13, 2013 at 4:51 AM

The wife's comedy. Count me in.

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32 altair

January 13, 2013 at 4:58 AM

This is going to be GOOD! Love both leads!

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33 cath

January 13, 2013 at 7:28 AM

creepy poster

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34 joyybrn

January 13, 2013 at 7:56 AM

Yes!!!
Time for my Khultong to shine again! I love LSY since she took up the leading role of Wild Romance, I pray that she will get more exposure this year......like a new rom-com drama series......
Kdrama gods please hear my prayers......
I think her hair in this movie is still fresh in Wild Romance because I heard they shoot this after Wild Romance before she trained for her competition....

Good Luck!

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Jambo42

January 14, 2013 at 8:51 AM

Is that what he nicknamed her in Wild Romance? Khultong? Thanks! I've been trying to replay it over and over, research what gull head is in Korean and I couldn't find it.

Anyway, w/the exception of the creepy ahjumma, i liked Wild Romance and thought it brought out the comedienne in LSY.

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35 Zeffir

January 14, 2013 at 12:43 PM

how about naming this year " the year of impending doom of the hair"? I can hardly name a recent drama without one of the leads showing up with the ugle perm..