Girl Scout (film)

Girl Scout (Korean: 걸스카우트; RR: Geol seukauteu) is a 2008 South Korean action comedy film directed by Kim Sang-man.^[2][3][4]

Girl Scout
Directed by	Kim Sang-man
Written by	Kim Seok-joo
Produced by	Sim Bo-gyeong
Starring	Kim Sun-a Na Moon-hee Lee Kyung-sil Go Joon-hee
Cinematography	Seong Seung-taek
Edited by	Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-bum
Music by	Kim Sang-man
Production companies	MK Pictures Myung Films BK Pictures Pancinema KD Media
Distributed by	Lotte Entertainment
Release date	June 5, 2008 (2008-06-05)
Running time	100 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	US$1.5 million[1]

Plot

Set in Bongcheon-3 dong, a deprived area in Seoul, four women are struggling financially. They are I-man (Na Moon-hee), a woman in her 60s working at a supermarket to look after her unemployed son; Bong-soon (Lee Kyung-sil), a widow who lives with an ill child; Mi-kyung (Kim Sun-a), a divorcee; and Eun-ji (Go Joon-hee), a caddie. They are determined to raise the money to open up a store in their neighborhood, and it is their sole hope and dream. But things get much worse when Hye-ran (Im Ji-eun), the head of their credit union, runs off with their life savings. Desperate, they create a team called Bong Chon Girl Scouts Troop #3 to recover the stolen money, and chaos ensues.

Cast

• Kim Sun-a as Choi Mi-kyung
• Na Moon-hee as Lee I-man
• Lee Kyung-sil as Oh Bong-soon
• Go Joon-hee as Kang Eun-ji
• Park Won-sang as Min Hong-gi
• Im Ji-eun as Seong Hye-ran
• Ryu Tae-joon as Lee Jong-dae
• Choi Jung-woo .as Director Han
• Park Hyuk-kwon as Beom-seok
• Kim Hyang-gi as Yoon-i, Mi-kyeong's daughter
• Yeojin Jeon as waitress
• Yang Gi-won as Lee I-man's son
• Jeong Mi-seong as supermarket manager
• Yeo Min-goo as Han-seo Capital employee
• Jeong Se-hyeong as security employee

Release

Girl Scout was released in South Korea on June 5, 2008, after the postponement of its planned earlier release in April.^[5] On its opening weekend it was ranked fifth at the box office, grossing US$855,238 and receiving 163,122 admissions.^[6] It eventually grossed US$1,523,142,^[1] with total admissions at 249,114.^[7]