{ "id": "ep5ea17jj2", "slug": "my-girl-and-i", "title": "My Girl and I (파랑주의보)", "updated": "2026-11-01", "topic_path": [ { "id": "culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture" }, { "id": "culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "label": "Comedy and romantic films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2005-to-2006", "label": "Comedies of 2005 to 2006", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2005-to-2006" } ], "geo": [ { "id": "geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "label": "Asia (other) · 2001 to 2020: Comedy and romantic films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "path": [ { "id": "geo.asia", "label": "Asia (other)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2001", "label": "Asia (other) · 2001 to 2020", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2001" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2001.culture", "label": "Arts and culture", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2001.culture" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance", "label": "Screen and stage", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance.screen", "label": "Film and television", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance.screen" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films", "label": "Films and standalone screen works", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works", "label": "Individual films by title and year", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works" }, { "id": "geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance", "label": "Comedy and romantic films (individual works)", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/geo/geo.asia.t2001.culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance" } ] } ], "excerpt": "My Girl and I (파랑주의보) is a 2005 South Korean teen romance film starring Cha Tae-hyun and Song Hye-kyo as high school students whose first love ends in separation.", "snippet": "My Girl and I (파랑주의보) is a 2005 South Korean teen romance film starring Cha Tae-hyun and Song Hye-kyo as high school students whose first love ends in separation.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2005-to-2006", "markdown": "# My Girl and I (파랑주의보)\n\n**My Girl and I** (파랑주의보) is a 2005 South Korean teen romance film directed by Jeon Yoon-su, starring [Cha Tae-hyun](https://www.edgepedia.org/cha-tae-hyun) and [Song Hye-kyo](https://www.edgepedia.org/song-hye-kyo) as high school students whose first love ends in separation, and it is a Korean remake of the Japanese film *[Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World](https://www.edgepedia.org/crying-out-love-in-the-center-of-the-world)*, itself adapted from Katayama Kyōichi's bestselling novel.[1](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4) • [2](https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200512141610311) It opened in South Korea on 22 December 2005 and in Japan on 26 August 2006.[1](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Korean title / English title | 파랑주의보 (Parang-juuibo, \"blue high-tide advisory\"), released abroad as *My Girl and I*[1](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4) |\n| Release | 22 December 2005 (South Korea); 26 August 2006 (Japan)[1](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4) |\n| Director and writers | Directed by Jeon Yoon-su; screenplay by Hwang Sung-gu; adaptation by Jeon Yoon-su and Jang Moon-il[1](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4) |\n| Cast | Cha Tae-hyun as Kim Su-ho, Song Hye-kyo as Bae Su-eun (her film debut), Lee Soon-jae as the grandfather Kim Man-geum, Kim Shin-young as Su-ho's sister Ji-ho[3](https://www.koreafilm.or.kr/library/search/video/00026356) • [4](https://www.newswire.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=108358) |\n| Source | Remake of the 2004 Japanese film *Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World*, based on Katayama Kyōichi's novel[2](https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200512141610311) • [5](https://www.allreport.co.kr/search/detail.asp?pk=16191374) |\n| Running time and rating | 95 minutes; rated 12 and over in South Korea[1](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4) • [3](https://www.koreafilm.or.kr/library/search/video/00026356) |\n| Domestic box office | 232,809 admissions and 1,427,060,500 won in revenue, ranking 48th among 2005 South Korean releases[6](https://stockant.tistory.com/968) |\n| Overseas sales | US$4 million in export contracts at the American Film Market in Santa Monica, November 2005[7](https://www.joynews24.com/view/179174) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise\n\nThe story follows Kim Su-ho (Cha Tae-hyun), an ordinary second-year high school student on an island village, and Bae Su-eun (Song Hye-kyo), the most popular girl in his school, who have known each other since middle school. Su-eun, who has long liked Su-ho, confesses her feelings through the voice mailbox of his pager, and the two become a couple. On a trip to another island arranged by their friends, their first love deepens, but the film reveals from its opening sequence, set at a school reunion where classmates note that \"today is the day Su-eun died,\" that Su-eun will not survive; her illness with bone cancer and her hospital stay dominate the later part of the story.[3](https://www.koreafilm.or.kr/library/search/video/00026356) • [8](https://cine21.com/news/view/?mag_id=35520) • [9](https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200512151549271)\n\nA parallel thread concerns Su-ho's grandfather Kim Man-geum (Lee Soon-jae), a coffin maker who has not forgotten his own first love in fifty years; his workshop, with a sign reading \"the last rest stop on the way to the afterlife, please do not die today,\" supplies much of the film's humor.[10](https://www.knnews.co.kr/news/articleView.php?gubun=&idxno=1544438) • [11](https://www.donga.com/news/amp/all/20051216/8257568/9)\n\n## Production and filming\n\n**Crew and schedule.** The film was produced by iFilm (아이필름) with Jeong Hoon-tak as producer, distributed by I Love Cinema, and shot from mid-August to late October 2005, with crank-in on 17 August 2005.[1](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4) • [12](https://www.newswire.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=101321)\n\n**Locations.** Geoje Island in South Gyeongsang Province served as the main setting. Filming took place at Hakdong Mongdol Beach and the Hakdong Break Time pension, Hakdong village, Dapo-ri in Nambu-myeon, Yeocha and Dadae villages, Dapo village, Jeogu-ri, the Jangseungpo passenger terminal, the culture center deck, and the Art Hotel.[1](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4) A beach scene in which Su-eun dives onto Su-ho underwater was shot over several hours in early autumn, with the two actors in [sleeveless shirts](https://www.edgepedia.org/sleeveless-shirt) and shorts despite the cold.[13](https://v.daum.net/v/20051201165016123) The Busan Mechanical Technical High School also appears as a filming location.[14](https://cyland.accessict.co.kr/artyboard/pds/board/TP1F_VJNA/313931343138373434.pdf)\n\n**Casting.** The pairing drew attention before release: Cha Tae-hyun was described as a reliable box-office draw returning to melodrama after *Lovers' Concerto*, while Song Hye-kyo, known for the television dramas *[Autumn in My Heart](https://www.edgepedia.org/autumn-in-my-heart)*, *[All In](https://www.edgepedia.org/all-in-tv-series)*, and *[Full House](https://www.edgepedia.org/full-house-south-korean-tv-series)*, took her first film role.[12](https://www.newswire.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=101321) • [15](https://www.seoul.co.kr/news/life/2005/12/17/20051217012002) Comedian Kim Shin-young, then popular on SBS's *웃찾사*, made her film debut as Su-ho's jealous younger sister Ji-ho.[4](https://www.newswire.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=108358)\n\n## Relationship to the original\n\nThe film adapts Katayama Kyōichi's 2001 novel *Sekai no chūshin de, ai o sakebu* (세상의 중심에서 사랑을 외치다), which had become a phenomenon in Japan; the 2004 Japanese film adaptation drew 7 million admissions within ten days of release, and the novel held the record for the highest circulation in the Japanese novel category.[8](https://cine21.com/news/view/?mag_id=35520) • [5](https://www.allreport.co.kr/search/detail.asp?pk=16191374) Because the Korean version remade the Japanese film, many episodes resemble that film, but the story itself follows the original novel, so the character of Fujimura Ritsuko from the Japanese film barely appears, and several settings were replaced with Korean equivalents, such as the grandfather's occupation.[1](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4) Ahead of the Japanese release, Cha Tae-hyun recorded the Japanese film's theme song, Hirai Ken's \"Hitomi wo Tojite\" (눈을 감고), in Korean.[1](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4)\n\nThe film belongs to a broader wave of Japanese-source remakes in Korean film and television of the period, alongside titles such as *A Moment to Remember* (2004) and *White Night* (2009).[16](https://journal.kci.go.kr/ccs/archive/articlePdf?artiId=ART002119700)\n\n## Reception and box office\n\n**Domestic performance.** The film underperformed. KOBIS year-end data record 232,809 admissions and 1,427,060,500 won in revenue, ranking 48th for 2005, and CinemaBoard's tracking shows a front-loaded pattern, with a peak single day of 70,690 admissions and 237,284 cumulative admissions by 10 January 2006.[6](https://stockant.tistory.com/968) • [17](https://cinemaboard.co.kr/movies/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4--m_b6a6d47cd7ce) Zetawiki summarizes the outcome as poor box office accompanied by harsh reviews.[1](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4)\n\n**Critical response.** The Kyunghyang Shinmun review praised the Geoje Island scenery and pastel-toned cinematography and the depth of the emotional line, while faulting a slow tempo, an over-explained romance, and a second half that sinks into tedium, predicting that audiences would split between those moved by the pure story and those finding it childish and long.[2](https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200512141610311) A Dong-A Ilbo review described the Korean version as cooler in tone than the Japanese original, which leans on tear-jerking melodrama, and highlighted the grandfather's fifty-year first love as a second protagonist.[11](https://www.donga.com/news/amp/all/20051216/8257568/9) A later retrospective in the Gyeongnam Shinmun argued that the island functions as a metaphor for first love, radiant but unreachable, and that the film's slow, classical lyricism risked alienating the teenage audience that teen films depend on.[10](https://www.knnews.co.kr/news/articleView.php?gubun=&idxno=1544438)\n\n**Overseas sales and Japan.** Before release, the film sold for US$4 million at the November 2005 American Film Market, exceeding its production budget, with negotiations under way for Malaysia, India, and China.[7](https://www.joynews24.com/view/179174) In Japan, where it opened on 26 August 2006, it failed to enter the top ten of the box office despite the stars' [Korean drama](https://www.edgepedia.org/korean-drama) fame.[1](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4) • [18](https://v.daum.net/v/20060830182303112?s=print_news) A later industry retrospective cited it, together with other Japanese-source remakes, as an example of the belief that Japanese originals were hard to make successful in Korea.[19](https://kcopa.or.kr/download.do?uuid=80a5445a-1d01-4f27-a93c-a6b59df46000.pdf)\n\n## References\n\n1. [파랑주의보, 제타위키](https://zetawiki.com/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4)\n2. [\"[영화리뷰] '파랑주의보'\", 경향신문, 2005-12-14](https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200512141610311)\n3. [파랑주의보, 한국영상자료원 영상도서관 (KMDb 자료)](https://www.koreafilm.or.kr/library/search/video/00026356)\n4. [\"'행님아~' 김신영, '파랑주의보'로 영화 데뷔\", 뉴스와이어, 2005-12-20](https://www.newswire.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=108358)\n5. [세상의 중심에서 사랑을 외치다(원작과 영화 비교), 올레포트](https://www.allreport.co.kr/search/detail.asp?pk=16191374)\n6. [2005년 영화 박스오피스, 영화진흥위원회 자료 정리](https://stockant.tistory.com/968)\n7. [\"'파랑주의보', 400만 달러 수출 계약 체결\", joynews24, 2005-11-17](https://www.joynews24.com/view/179174)\n8. [\"잊을 수 없고 잊어서도 안 될 첫사랑의 기억, <파랑주의보>\", Cine21, 2005](https://cine21.com/news/view/?mag_id=35520)\n9. [\"[영화] 떠나야 하는 첫사랑 '진짜진짜 미안해'\", 경향신문, 2005-12-15](https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200512151549271)\n10. [\"[주말ON] 영화 '파랑주의보', 그 서정적 영상미학\", 경남신문](https://www.knnews.co.kr/news/articleView.php?gubun=&idxno=1544438)\n11. [\"[스크린 산책] 아련한 첫사랑 '파랑주의보'\", 동아일보, 2005-12-16](https://www.donga.com/news/amp/all/20051216/8257568/9)\n12. [\"차태현-송혜교, 영화 '파랑주의보' 제작보고회에서 애정 과시\", 뉴스와이어, 2005](https://www.newswire.co.kr/newsRead.php?no=101321)\n13. [\"송혜교, 육탄공세(?)로 차태현 유혹\", 뉴스엔 via 다음, 2005-12-01](https://v.daum.net/v/20051201165016123)\n14. [부산영상위원회 소식지 (파랑주의보 촬영지 언급)](https://cyland.accessict.co.kr/artyboard/pds/board/TP1F_VJNA/313931343138373434.pdf)\n15. [\"'파랑주의보'로 스크린 데뷔 송혜교\", 서울신문, 2005-12-17](https://www.seoul.co.kr/news/life/2005/12/17/20051217012002)\n16. [비교문화연구 제43집 (2016), 일본소설의 한국 영화화](https://journal.kci.go.kr/ccs/archive/articlePdf?artiId=ART002119700)\n17. [파랑주의보 흥행 요약, 시네마보드](https://cinemaboard.co.kr/movies/%ED%8C%8C%EB%9E%91%EC%A3%BC%EC%9D%98%EB%B3%B4--m_b6a6d47cd7ce)\n18. [\"일본 흥행 부진한 한국 영화들\", 언론사 뷰 via 다음, 2006-08-30](https://v.daum.net/v/20060830182303112?s=print_news)\n19. [한국영화제작가협회 자료, 일본 원작 리메이크 관련](https://kcopa.or.kr/download.do?uuid=80a5445a-1d01-4f27-a93c-a6b59df46000.pdf)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Films and standalone screen works › Individual films by title and year › Comedy and romantic films (individual works) › Comedies of 2005 to 2006*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n", "same_as": [], "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/my-girl-and-i", "markdown_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/my-girl-and-i.md", "license": { "name": "Edgepedia Community License 1.0", "url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license", "summary": "Free with credit, commercial use included. AI training is open to everyone. 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