The Quiz Show Scandal

The Quiz Show Scandal
Hangul	퀴즈왕
Hanja	퀴즈王
Revised Romanization	Kwijeu Wang
McCune–Reischauer	K'wijŭ Wang
Directed by	Jang Jin
Produced by	Lee Taek-dong Jang Jin Kim Seong-jin Jo Hyeon-seok
Screenplay by	Jang Jin
Starring	Kim Su-ro Han Jae-suk Song Young-chang Jang Young-nam Ryu Seung-ryong Lee Hae-yeong Shim Eun-kyung Lee Ji-yong
Music by	Yoon Soo-jin
Cinematography	Kim Jun-young
Distributed by	Cinema Service
Release dates	September 16, 2010 (2010-09-16)
Running time	121 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean

The Quiz Show Scandal (Hangul: 퀴즈왕; RR: Kwijeu Wang; lit. "Quiz King") is a 2010 South Korean film. The ensemble comedy satire is written and directed by Jang Jin.

At a police station, people involved in a car accident are accidentally informed of the answer to the last question of a quiz show with a prize of over ten million dollars. On the day of the show, those same people gather again to compete against each other but they only know the answer to the last question. Who is going to win the fortune?^[1]

Plot

Four cars are caught up in a pile-up on the Gangbyeon Expressway into Seoul one night when a young woman, Im Yeon-yi, seemingly throws herself into the traffic. In the first car are Do Ho-man (Song Young-chang), whose wife is in a coma in hospital, and his cockily brilliant student son, Ji-yong (Lee Ji-yong); in the second are a gambling-addicted husband, Kim Sang-do (Ryu Seung-ryong), his nagging wife Jang Pal-nyeo (Jang Young-nam) and their young daughter; in the third are two gangsters, Lee Do-yeob (Kim Su-ro) and Park Sang-gil (Han Jae-suk), who will "fix" anything for money; and in the last car are four members of a depression-therapy group - club president Kim Jeong-sang (Kim Byeong-ok), high-school student Kim Yeo-na (Shim Eun-kyung), French teacher Lee Sang-hoon (Lee Sang-hoon) and a mobile phone salesman (Lee Moon-soo). They are all taken to Yongsan police station to sort out what happened, and are joined by others brought in for questioning, including restaurant delivery boy Oh Cheol-ju (Ryu Deok-hwan) and a drunk, Lee Jun-sang (Im Won-hee). Everyone in the room learns that the dead woman set questions for the big-money TV program Quiz Show and that a memory stick in her bag contains the answer to the final question for next month's show. No one has ever succeeded in answering all 30 questions because of the legendary difficulty of the final one: the show's accumulated pot is currently US$10 million. They all hurriedly brush up their general knowledge to apply to take part in the show, and by the night in question the pot has climbed to US$13.5 million. What they don't realize, as the show goes to air live, is that the organizers are running their own private scam, and Lee Do-yeob has decided to "fix" things his own way.^[2][3][4]

Cast

Main cast

• Kim Su-ro - Lee Do-yeob, the older gangster
• Han Jae-suk - Park Sang-gil, the younger gangster
• Song Young-chang - Do Ho-man
• Jang Young-nam - Jang Pal-nyeo, Kim Sang-do's nagging wife
• Ryu Seung-ryong - Kim Sang-do, the addictive gambler
• Lee Ji-yong - Do Ji-yong, the know-it-all son
• Ryu Deok-hwan - Oh Cheol-ju, the Chinese restaurant delivery boy
• Lee Hae-yeong - Choi Ha-yeong, the quiz host
• Kim Byeong-ok - Kim Jeong-sang, the depression club's president
• Lee Sang-hoon - Lee Sang-hoon, the French teacher
• Lee Moon-soo - the mobile phone salesman
• Shim Eun-kyung - Kim Yeo-na, the depressive schoolgirl, aka "ShootMePlz"
• Im Won-hee - Lee Jun-sang, the drunk
• Jung Jae-young - Dong Chi-seng, the judo man (cameo)
• Shin Ha-kyun - the Ph.D in engineering (cameo)
• Go Eun-mi - Im Yeon-yi, the dead woman (cameo)

Supporting cast

References

External links

• http://www.quizking2010.co.kr/
• Quiz King at Naver
• Quiz King at HanCinema
• Quiz King at the Korean Movie Database
• The Quiz Show Scandal at the Internet Movie Database