The Quiz Show Scandal
The Quiz Show Scandal Hangul RRKwijeu Wang lit. Quiz King is a 2010 South Korean film. The ensemble comedy satire is written and directed by Jang Jin.
Four cars are caught up in a pileup on the Gangbyeon Expressway into Seoul one night when a young woman, Im Yeonyi, seemingly throws herself into the traffic. In the first car are Do Homan Song Youngchang, whose wife is in a coma in hospital, and his cockily brilliant student son, Jiyong Lee Jiyong in the second are a gamblingaddicted husband, Kim Sangdo Ryu Seungryong, his nagging wife Jang Palnyeo Jang Youngnam and their young daughter in the third are two gangsters, Lee Doyeob Kim Suro and Park Sanggil Han Jaesuk, who will fix anything for money and in the last car are four members of a depressiontherapy group club president Kim Jeongsang Kim Byeongok, highschool student Kim Yeona Shim Eunkyung, French teacher Lee Sanghoon Lee Sanghoon and a mobile phone salesman Lee Moonsoo. 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 Cheolju Ryu Deokhwan and a drunk, Lee Junsang Im Wonhee. Everyone in the room learns that the dead woman set questions for the bigmoney TV program Quiz Show and that a memory stick in her bag contains the answer to the final question for next months show. No one has ever succeeded in answering allquestions because of the legendary difficulty of the final one the shows accumulated pot is currently US10 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 US13.5 million. What they dont realize, as the show goes to air live, is that the organizers are running their own private scam, and Lee Doyeob has decided to fix things his own way.
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