Bangga? Bangga!
| Movie | |
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| Original title | Bangga? Bangga! ( 방가? 방가! ) |
| Country of production | South Korea |
| original language | Korean |
| Publishing year | 2010 |
| length | 110 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Yook Sang-hyo |
| script | Yook Sang-hyo |
| music | Shin Hyung |
| camera | Jeon Dae-sung |
| cut | Park Gok-ji |
| occupation | |
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Bangga? Bangga! (internationally also Delighted? Delighted! or He's on Duty ) is a comedy film by the South Korean director Yook Sang-hyo from 2010. The title is a play on the name of the main character and the Korean word bangapseumnida ( 반갑 습니다 'pleased'). The film had around one million moviegoers in South Korea.
action
Bang Tae-sik is long term unemployed and goes from company to company for any type of job. Because of his small height and dark skin, he doesn't seem to have a chance of an office job. His best friend Yong-cheol convinces him to turn this disadvantage into an advantage. From now on he pretends to be a Bhutanese Bangga and thus gets a job in a chair factory.
In the factory he works with workers from other Asian countries and makes friends with them. He suggests going to karaoke together. The shop belongs to his friend Yong-cheol, who threatened to sell it because he was no longer making any money. Tae-sik wants to prevent that and therefore always lures his colleagues into the store. However, because he is viewed as a foreigner and his colleagues all come from other Asian countries, he will soon be confronted with their problems. They are constantly on the run from the immigration authorities and have to work longer than the Korean workers. Tae-sik also falls in love with his Vietnamese colleague Jang-mi. However, she wants to marry a Korean in order to be able to live permanently in South Korea.
However, his friend Yong-cheol gets ahead of him and starts a relationship with her, but doesn't take it seriously. One day a colleague from Tae-sik sees his Korean ID and thinks it is a fake. He would like to have one too, and soon all other colleagues too. Tae-sik is against it because it is too dangerous, but Yong-cheol sees it as an opportunity to get the immigrants' savings. When all colleagues give him their money, he calls the immigration office and so he has the money and no more problems with the imminent deportation of the workers. When Tae-sik hears about it, he quickly decides to help everyone. In the end, Yong-cheol also helps and the migrants can flee from the immigration authorities again.
Web links
- Bangga? Bangga! in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Bangga? Bangga! in the Korean Movie Database (English)
- Bangga? Bangga! on HanCinema
Individual evidence
- ^ He's on Duty (2010). In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC, accessed on July 18, 2019 .