Love So Divine

Directed by: Heo In Moo
Screenplay by: Heo In Moo | Lee Yoon Jin | Park Yeon Seon
Main Casts: Kwon Sang Woo (Peter Kim Kyu Shik) | Ha Ji Won (Yang Bong Hee) | Kim In Kwon (Thomas Shin Sundal) | Kim Il Wu (Father Yang) | Kim Seon Hwa (Sister at the church)

Kim Kyushik is a pious acolyte seeking to become a fully-fledged priest. Due to some incredible bad luck, he and his acolyte buddy, Thomas Shin, are banished to a small church in a remote time as punishment for dropping the tabanacle on the floor during Mass.

Disheartened, Kyushik and Thomas make their way to the town. They bump into Yang Bonghee, a vivacious Korean girl who has been studying abroad in the US, at a drink stall.

Kyushik and Thomas arrive at the small town where they are to serve under a priest, Father Yang, who is the uncle of Bonghee.

Kyushik is cleaning the church when he stumbles upon a sleepy Bonghee. She was sleeping in the church because she had mistaken wine for water previously [when Kyushik first met Bonghee at the drink stall].

Half-drunk, she attempts to drink the holy water before it is wrestled away from her hands by Kyushik, who firmly believes that holy water should be used for much more nobler purposes than quenching one's thirst. In the struggle, Bonghee falls onto Kyushik and they accidentally kiss, a scene that is seen by the Sister of the church.

He also bugs Bonghee, trying to hint that he is sorry for having kissed her, but to the outgoing Bonghee [not forgetting she was half-drunk], she doesn't even recall the incident and isn't bothered about it.

Trying to get her forgiveness, he follows her to her appointment with her fiancé to be [the person she returned to Korea to get married to], only to have her fiancé ditch her.

Bonghee, now broken-hearted, returns to her uncle's church and requests for money for the air-ticket back to the US. However, her uncle, being a priest, does not have any personal cash. The next day, she volunteers to help out at the orphanage in the church for a month to earn the necessary amount for the air ticket back.

Her first task is to drive the kids to school, something that she does so well, but dangerously… she swerves and changes lanes as if she owns the road, and frightens the kids in the van, but more importantly, almost scares the small-gutted Kyushik sitting beside her to death.

He rushes to confession and Father Yang tells him that Bonghee was sent to them by God for a reason and gives him the task of getting Bonghee baptised.

Kyushik tries everything in his means to help Bonghee get associated with the religion. However, Bonghee is too concerned about enjoying herself to even care about him.

He even follows her to a disco where Bonghee is chilling out… and in turn he becomes the star of the show because he is wearing the clothes of a pastor and is mistaken by the clubbers that he is 'Mr Matrix' [think of what Neo and Morpheus wore in the 'Matrix'].

Bonghee eventually gets drunk again and pisses off a bunch of gangsters in the club before being saved by Kyushik. They are chased by the gangster, until Kyushik, with Bonghee on his back [she's drunk remember?] is forced to enter the motel with her.

He decides to book a room but chooses to stay outside as it is not good to be seen with a lady in a motel meant for soliciting.

The next morning, Bonghee leaves the motel and sees Kyushik outside with his bike. Realising that he has spent the entire night with her, she is touched and has a better opinion of him from then on.

The catechism lessons with Bonghee continue until she has finally mastered the basics to get herself baptised.

Kyushik finds himself falling slowly for Bonghee and even buys her a pair of high heels as Bonghee's old pair has fallen apart. However, as he is about to give it to her, he sees that Bonghee's fiancé-to-be approach her, hoping for a recoincilation.

Kyushik is heartbroken. As all his life, he thought he was destined to be a priest and finally when he meets a girl who might change all of that, she might get married to another person soon.

Finally, Kyushik has to choose between becoming a servant of God and the woman of his life….

Credits: Hancinema.net | spcnet.tv

Opinion:
At the beginning, I was expecting a very hilarious movie and I wasn't wrong about it. I find Shin Sundal very funny in the movie, I think without his presence, this movie would not be as funny as this. I also disappointed because of some draggy scenes but it's great! When Kyu-shik feels that he's inlove.. That was really fast!

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