| Wedding Campaign | |||||||||||
| Director: | Hwang Byung-guk | ||||||||||
| Producer: | Choi Moon-soo | ||||||||||
| Starring: | Jung Jae-young Soo Ae Yoo Jun-sang | ||||||||||
| Music: | Kim Hong-jib | ||||||||||
| Cinematography: | Lee Doo-man | ||||||||||
| Editing: | Kim Hyeon | ||||||||||
| Studio: | Tube Entertainment Tube Pictures | ||||||||||
| Distributor: | Lotte Entertainment | ||||||||||
| Runtime: | 120 minutes | ||||||||||
| Country: | South Korea | ||||||||||
| Language: | Korean | ||||||||||
| Gross: | [1] | ||||||||||
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Wedding Campaign is 2005 South Korean film about two aging bachelor farmers from Gyeongsang Province. Unable to find wives in Korea willing to move to the countryside, they go on a 10-day "campaign" in Uzbekistan, where local matchmakers attempt to pair them up with local ethnic Korean women.[2] It was the closing film of the 2005 Pusan International Film Festival.[3]
Hong Man-taek is a 38-year-old bachelor who at his age is still unable to meet eyes with a woman. Whenever his mother complains "Never had luck with men, never had luck with sons," he feels guilty about not having found a bride yet. Man-taek's old friend Hee-chul thinks he is a lady killer, but he's only a bit more experienced than his basket case friend. Urged on by his grandfather, the two bachelor buddies embark on a matchmaking journey to Uzbekistan to find wives. The trip to Uzbekistan begins with anxiety and hope. While Hee-chul musters all his suaveness and broken English to appeal to the women, Man-taek gets rejected again and again. Even more frustrated than Man-taek himself is Lara, their matchmaker-cum-interpreter. There is a special reason why she must find a bride for Man-taek, and she decides to give special private lessons on language and manners to achieve their common goal.