A Good Day to Have an Affair | |||||||||||||
Director: | Jang Mun-il | ||||||||||||
Cinematography: | Kim Young-ho | ||||||||||||
Music: | Bang Jun-seok | ||||||||||||
Starring: | Kim Hye-soo Yoon Jin-seo Jung Eun-pyo Lee Jong-hyuk Lee Min-ki | ||||||||||||
Country: | South Korea | ||||||||||||
Runtime: | 103 minutes | ||||||||||||
Language: | Korean | ||||||||||||
Native Name: |
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Budget: | $4 million | ||||||||||||
Gross: | $11.2 million[1] |
A Good Day to Have an Affair is a 2007 South Korean film. The story deals with two lonely housewives who get involved in extramarital affairs.
바람피다 is a Korean idiom that means "to cheat". 바람 = wind, 피다 = to smoke. When you cheat on your spouse, you go back home so fast that even the wind burns (a rough translation).
Two bored housewives have affairs with two different men that they meet in online chatrooms. As their online relationships develop offline, they often pass each other unwittingly in the hallways of the motels where they meet their lovers.
One day, the lady known as “Dew” is in a motel room with her college-aged lover. Suddenly, her husband bursts through the door, along with police officers that he has brought along. The other lady, known as “Small Bird”, is in an adjacent room listening to what's going on in Dew's room. Small Bird whispers to her lover to be quiet, because the police officer in the other room is her husband.
A Good Day to Have an Affair was the feature film debut of Lee Min-ki.[2] The actor that played Dew's husband, Park Sang-myun, is the same man who played the aloof husband in My Wife is a Gangster (2001).