
Cheese in the Trap(2018)
Hong Seol, a student from a poor family, meets a rich Yoo Jung, who is her senior at her university. They both develop a rather inconvenient relationship after knowing each other.



Kwon Sang-woo
Nam-soon

Jung Ryeo-won
Dong-hyeon

Don Lee
Beom-noh

Jang Young-nam
Gye-jung

Kim Hyeong-jong
Redneck

Geum Dong-hyeon
Young-bae

Mahbub Alam
Painter

Lee Mi-do
Street Vendor

Kim Jin-goo
Old Woman

Kim Min-jun
Actor
Pain is a drama, romance film released in 2011 exploring themes of based on webcomic or webtoon. Directed by Kwak Kyung-taek, it stars Kwon Sang-woo, Jung Ryeo-won, Don Lee. A debt collector who has lost his sense of pain after being in an accident when he was young falls in love with a street vendor who has acute hemophilia.
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