{ "id": "epcz19s2v6", "slug": "right-now-wrong-then", "title": "Right Now, Wrong Then (지금은맞고그때는틀리다)", "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-2015-to-2016", "label": "Comedies of 2015 to 2016", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2015-to-2016" }, { "id": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2015-to-2016.alpha-k-to-z", "label": "Titles K to Z", "api_url": "https://www.edgepedia.org/api/v1/topics/culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2015-to-2016.alpha-k-to-z" } ], "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": "Right Now, Wrong Then (지금은맞고그때는틀리다) is Hong Sang-soo's 2015 two-part drama, his 17th feature, starring Jung Jae-young and Kim Min-hee; it won the 2015 Locarno Golden Leopard and began Hong's collaboration with Kim Min-hee.", "snippet": "Right Now, Wrong Then (지금은맞고그때는틀리다) is Hong Sang-soo's 2015 two-part drama, his 17th feature, starring Jung Jae-young and Kim Min-hee; it won the 2015 Locarno Golden Leopard and began Hong's collaboration with Kim Min-hee.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.films.films.individual-works.comedy-romance.comedies-of-2015-to-2016.alpha-k-to-z", "markdown": "# Right Now, Wrong Then (지금은맞고그때는틀리다)\n\n**Right Now, Wrong Then** (지금은맞고그때는틀리다) is a 2015 South Korean drama film directed and written by [Hong Sang-soo](https://www.edgepedia.org/hong-sang-soo), in which a film director and a painter meet in Suwon and their encounter is told twice, with small but consequential differences between the two versions. It was Hong's 17th feature film, released in South Korea on September 24, 2015, and it won the Golden Leopard, the top prize at the Locarno International Film Festival.[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZLK3gSgMU) • [2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4768776/awards/) • [3](https://m.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/news/inFocus.jsp?blbdComCd=601018&mode=VIEW&seq=350)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Director and writer | Hong Sang-soo; his 17th feature film[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZLK3gSgMU) |\n| Release | September 24, 2015, South Korea; rated for adults only (청소년관람불가)[1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZLK3gSgMU) |\n| Runtime and genre | 121 minutes; drama; Korean language[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/right_now_wrong_then) |\n| Leads | Jung Jae-young as director Ham Chun-su; Kim Min-hee as painter Yoon Hee-jeong[3](https://m.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/news/inFocus.jsp?blbdComCd=601018&mode=VIEW&seq=350) • [4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/right_now_wrong_then) |\n| Top award | Golden Leopard, Locarno International Film Festival 2015; Best Actor for Jung Jae-young[2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4768776/awards/) |\n| Critical scores | Metascore 81 (universal acclaim); 92% Tomatometer from 49 reviews[5](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/right-now-wrong-then/critic-reviews/) • [4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/right_now_wrong_then) |\n| Production | Jeonwonsa Film; producer Kim Cho-hee[4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/right_now_wrong_then) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot and structure\n\nFilm director Ham Chun-su ([Jung Jae-young](https://www.edgepedia.org/jung-jae-young)) travels to Suwon to participate in a Q&A for his film, but he arrives a day early and has time to fill. While touring an old palace he meets Yoon Hee-jeong (Kim Min-hee), an introverted painter and former model who recognizes his name but has never seen his films. The two spend the day together, sharing sushi and soju.[3](https://m.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/news/inFocus.jsp?blbdComCd=601018&mode=VIEW&seq=350) • [6](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/right-now-wrong-then-2016) • [4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/right_now_wrong_then)\n\nThe film then restarts and presents the same day a second time, with the same characters, locales, and circumstances, but with adjustments both obvious and subtle. In the second version the director makes different, in some ways smarter choices, and Hee-jeong appears less directionless and more in control. Small details change as well: the orange paint Hee-jung uses in the first half is substituted with green in the second.[6](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/right-now-wrong-then-2016) • [7](https://www.timeout.com/movies/right-now-wrong-then) The Korean Film Archive's synopsis frames the central question directly: which situation is the 'right now', and which the 'wrong then'?[3](https://m.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/news/inFocus.jsp?blbdComCd=601018&mode=VIEW&seq=350)\n\n## Cast\n\nThe supporting cast includes Yoon Yeo-jeong as Kang Deok-soo, Ki Joo-bong as Kim Won-ho, Choi Hwa-jeong as Bang Soo-young, Yu Jun-sang as Ahn Seong-gook, Seo Young-hwa as Joo Young-sil, and Ko Ah-sung as Yeom Bo-ra.[6](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/right-now-wrong-then-2016) • [4](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/right_now_wrong_then)\n\n## Reception and awards\n\nThe film won the Golden Leopard at the 2015 Locarno Film Festival, where Jung Jae-young also won Best Actor, and it received a Special Mention from the festival's Ecumenical Jury. Its other honors include the Grand Prix Asturias for Best Film and Best Actor at the Gijón International Film Festival, the Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Performance by an Actor (Jung Jae-young), the Busan Film Critics Association Grand Prize for Hong and Best Actress for Kim Min-hee, and the Cine21 Best Film of the Year award. Across listed festivals and critics' groups the film recorded 15 wins and 12 nominations.[2](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4768776/awards/)\n\nCritics responded strongly to the two-part design. [The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-hollywood-reporter)'s Boyd van Hoeij wrote that taken as a single 120-minute work, the small differences in dialogue and attitudes between the parts reveal the characters' humanity, inner life, and subconscious decision-making, making it one of Hong's strongest features. Richard Brody in [The New Yorker](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-new-yorker) called the two parts together a radical fiction about the role of imagination in lived experience. [The A.V. Club](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-a-v-club)'s Mike D'Angelo rated it 100 and called it Hong's finest work to date. The film holds a Metascore of 81, labeled universal acclaim, and a 92% Tomatometer.[5](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/right-now-wrong-then/critic-reviews/)\n\n## Significance in Hong Sang-soo's career\n\nThe film marked a turning point in two ways. It netted Hong his biggest prize to that point, the Golden Leopard at Locarno, where he had previously won the Best Director prize in 2013 for *Our Sunhi*. It was also his first partnership with actress Kim Min-hee, a collaboration that, as of the Korean Film Archive's account, had yielded seven acclaimed films with both praised for bringing out the best in each other.[3](https://m.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/news/inFocus.jsp?blbdComCd=601018&mode=VIEW&seq=350) • [8](https://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/right-now-wrong-then-review) [The Dong-A Ilbo](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-dong-a-ilbo) reported that Hong and Kim first met through this film and became a couple, and that two later films they made together won consecutive Silver Bears at the [Berlin International Film Festival](https://www.edgepedia.org/berlin-international-film-festival).[9](https://web.donga.com/pdf/pdf_viewer.php?vcid=2020030220W0201)\n\nThe film was made on a small scale, with an estimated budget of $100,000 to $200,000, placing it among the lowest-budget award-winning art-house features.[10](https://saturation.io/budgets/right-now-wrong-then-2015) In the United States it was released by the then-new distributor Grasshopper Film in 2016, and it appeared on numerous critics' year-end top-ten lists, including first-place rankings in the Film Stage's 2015 list and the indieWire 2016 poll.[5](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/right-now-wrong-then/critic-reviews/) • [11](https://criticstop10.com/right-now-wrong-then/)\n\n## References\n\n1. [홍상수감독 \"1부와 2부의 의미. 지금의 의미\" (지금은맞고그때는틀리다 시사회현장), YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzZLK3gSgMU)\n2. [Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) – Awards, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4768776/awards/)\n3. [RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN, Korean Film Archive (KOFIC), Pierce Conran](https://m.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/news/inFocus.jsp?blbdComCd=601018&mode=VIEW&seq=350)\n4. [Right Now, Wrong Then, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/right_now_wrong_then)\n5. [Right Now, Wrong Then – Critic Reviews, Metacritic](https://www.metacritic.com/movie/right-now-wrong-then/critic-reviews/)\n6. [Right Now, Wrong Then movie review, RogerEbert.com, Susan Wloszczyna](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/right-now-wrong-then-2016)\n7. [Right Now, Wrong Then, Time Out, David Ehrlich](https://www.timeout.com/movies/right-now-wrong-then)\n8. [Right Now, Wrong Then | Review, IONCINEMA.com, Nicholas Bell](https://www.ioncinema.com/reviews/right-now-wrong-then-review)\n9. [동아일보 PDF (2020년 3월 2일자, 홍상수·김민희 베를린 은곰상 보도)](https://web.donga.com/pdf/pdf_viewer.php?vcid=2020030220W0201)\n10. [Right Now, Wrong Then (2015) Budget, Saturation.io](https://saturation.io/budgets/right-now-wrong-then-2015)\n11. 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