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Starring: Choi Jae Sung, Kim Byeong Seok, Lee Han, Son Tae Young, Lee Young Hoon, Yu Ah In, Kim Kang Woo Director: Leesong Hee-Il, Park Heung-shik, Noh Dong-seok Studio: Fantom Korea Rating: NR Genre: Drama Important! Please read before you order! >>>This is a multi-unit set and the shipping cost will be adjusted to that of 4 DVDs . To learn more about the shipping cost, please visit our Help Page and look for shipping information . >>> This DVD is encoded for Region 3 (Southeast Asia & East Asia — including Korea & Hong Kong) . This DVD will NOT be viewable on regular DVD players made for other regions unless they are code-(region-)free DVD players. To learn more about the DVD Region Code, please visit our Help Page and read Info on DVD Region Code . About This DVD No Regret No Regret is an expanded version of Good Romance. In fact, the actor who played the main character in that short, Lee Young-hoon, is the main actor here. He plays Su-min, an orphan who, since he is unable to pay for university, must leave the orphanage at 18. (Leesong’s research for this film led him to find that this requirement leads many orphans, male and female, to end up in factories and hostess/host bars in Seoul at 18. Some days, I feel like I might like to shoot an orphanage story, he says) Su-min heads to Seoul to work various jobs in order to pay for computer classes and later university. An ethical stance on Su-min’s part results in his losing his factory job. (Such a morally upstanding gesture along with Lee’s beauty endears him early on with the audience. This also provides a nice expose on class in Queer communities, adding layers to the ‘hostess bar’ genre in South Korean cinema that Leesong redefines here.) Hit hard on financial times, Su-min ends up taking a job at a host bar. The boss (they call him ‘Madame’) of this host bar is reluctant to bring on Su-min since experience has shown him that gay-identified hosts will often

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