Our School's E.T.

Our School's E.T. (Korean: 울학교 이티; RR: Ulhakgyo Iti) is a 2008 South Korean comedy-drama film directed by Park Kwang-chun (also known as K.C. Park). It stars Kim Su-ro as an unconventional, "alien-like" high school P.E. teacher whose position is put at stake when the school adopts a new policy to boost English education, so he decides that becoming an English teacher (E.T.) overnight is his only hope.[2][3]

Our School's E.T.
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Hangul울학교 이티
Hanja울學校 이티
Revised RomanizationUlhakgyo iti
McCune–ReischauerUrhakkyo it'i
Directed byPark Kwang-chun
Produced byChoi Yong-gi
Park Bong-su
Written byChoi Jin-won
Story byLee Hyeon-cheol
StarringKim Su-ro
Lee Han-wi
Baek Sung-hyun
Park Bo-young
Lee Min-ho
Moon Chae-won
Lee Chan-ho
Kim Sung-ryung
Music byChoi Man-sik
CinematographyChoi Deok-kyu
Edited byShin Min-kyung
Production
company
Courage Films
Distributed bySK Telecom
Release date
  • September 11, 2008 (2008-09-11)
Running time
120 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean
Box officeUS$3.6 million[1]

Synopsis

Chun Sung-geun (Kim Su-ro) is the gym teacher of a private high school in an upscale district where competition is heated among students to enter top colleges. Called "E.T." by his students because of his quirky appearance and behavior, he is a teacher who has lived life his own lazy, ignorant way for years without any worries. But one day he's hit with a crisis: At the school's board meeting, a parent requests that the school get rid of "useless" gym classes and expand the hours for English classes. The school decides to hire another English teacher— at the cost of a gym teacher. In danger of losing his position, he remembers by chance that he obtained a license to teach English a decade ago. The school board president tells him to pass a test in order for her to acknowledge it. So Sung-geun, who hasn't spoken (much less taught) English for ten years, faces the near-impossible task of becoming an English teacher within two weeks. His only weapon is his amazingly incomparable physical strength, and with the help of a few students who understand his warm heart, the simpleton Sung-geun begins his rigorous training to exercise his brain "muscles" to master English in his journey to become the school's E.T.

Cast
  • Kim Su-ro as Chun Sung-geun
  • Lee Han-wi as Principal Joo Ho-shik
  • Baek Sung-hyun as Baek Jung-goo[4]
  • Park Bo-young as Han Song-yi
  • Lee Min-ho as Oh Sang-hoon[5][6]
  • Moon Chae-won as Lee Eun-shil
  • Lee Chan-ho as Ok Ki-ho
  • Kim Sung-ryung as school board director Lee
  • Kim Hyeong-beom as Cha Seung-ryong, English teacher
  • Kim Ki-bang as "Meok-tong" (meaning hard-headed)
  • Park Jin-taek as Jin-gook
  • Kim Young-ok as Sung-geun's mother
  • Kim Byeong-ok as president of publishing company
  • Ha Jung-woo as handsome doctor (cameo)
  • Jang Hee-soo as Ki-ho's mother
  • Lee Young-yi as Eun-shil's mother
  • Lee Hyung-kwon as Vice principal
  • Gong Ho-seok as Teacher Choi
  • Lee Chan-young as Byeong-jin
  • Oh Yeon-seo as Soo-jin
  • Maeng Bong-hak as Vice principal of countryside school
  • Choi Yoon-jung as Yoon-jung
  • Jeon In-geol as Kyeong-sam
  • Kim Dong-beom as Je-dong
  • Min Ji-hyun as Ki-ho's seat partner
  • Kim Jae-rok as math teacher
  • Jung Jong-yeol as music teacher
  • Lee Sa-bi as chemistry teacher
  • Yoo Jeong-ho as English Kim
  • Kim Si-hyang as Sang-hoon's girlfriend
  • Oh Soon-tae as Jo Ba-nom
gollark: It would also be nice if people actually knew anything about networking.
gollark: I fear that some sort of computer troubleshooting class may just end up teaching people to blindly try one specific thing they learned instead of... actually problem-solving. Which would admittedly be better than now.
gollark: People just see an error of some sort, and immediately their brain shuts down, even if it specifies what to do about it.
gollark: A useful skill people seem to lack is any ability whatsoever to solve basic problems with computers, but that's hard to teach.
gollark: You can argue about physics being useful and english literature not or whatever, but it's outweighted by how much anyone involved actually cares.

References
  1. "Ulhakgyo E.T. (Our School's E.T.) (2008)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2008-10-26.
  2. Lee, Hyo-won (20 August 2008). "Actor Kim Su-ro as English Teacher on Big Screen". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
  3. Yang, Sung-jin (22 August 2008). "Kim Soo-ro to play a quirky English teacher". The Korea Herald via Hancinema. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
  4. Wee, Geun-woo (27 April 2010). "My Name Is: Baek Sung-hyun". 10Asia. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
  5. Ko, Jae-wan (29 April 2010). "STAR DIARY: Lee Min-ho - Part 4". 10Asia. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
  6. Kang, Myoung-seok (21 October 2009). "10LINE: Lee Min-ho". 10Asia. Retrieved 2014-02-27.
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