''Love Clinic'' (; lit. "The Taste of Love") is a 2015 South Korean
romantic comedy
Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a subgenre of comedy and slice of life fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount most obstacles. In a typica ...
film directed by Aaron Kim, starring
Oh Ji-ho
Oh Ji-ho (born April 14, 1976) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for the television dramas '' Couple or Trouble'' (2006), '' The Slave Hunters'' (2010), ''Queen of the Office'' (2013) and ''My Fair Lady'' (2016).
Career
Oh was born and r ...
and
Kang Ye-won
Kang Ye-won (born Kim Ji-eun; March 15, 1979) is a South Korean actress best known for her roles in '' Tidal Wave'', '' Harmony'' and '' Quick''.
Filmography Film
Television series
Variety show
Musicals
Awards and nominations
Persona ...
.
Plot
Wang Seong-ki is a male
obstetrician
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/
gynecologist
Gynaecology or gynecology (see spelling differences) is the area of medicine that involves the treatment of women's diseases, especially those of the reproductive organs. It is often paired with the field of obstetrics, forming the combined area ...
and Gil Sin-seol is a female
urologist
Urology (from Greek οὖρον ''ouron'' "urine" and '' -logia'' "study of"), also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the urinary-tract system and the reproductive org ...
. Handsome Seong-ki is loved by all his female patients, but he secretly struggles with
impotence
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after he fails to deliver a baby via
Caesarean section
Caesarean section, also known as C-section or caesarean delivery, is the surgical procedure by which one or more babies are delivered through an incision in the mother's abdomen, often performed because vaginal delivery would put the baby or mo ...
. Meanwhile, the equally attractive Sin-seol is an expert on men's bodies, but is actually a virgin with an abysmal dating history. When Seong-ki opens his clinic on the same floor in the same building as Sin-seol's clinic, the two romantically challenged doctors begin to constantly bump into each other and bicker.
Cast
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Oh Ji-ho
Oh Ji-ho (born April 14, 1976) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for the television dramas '' Couple or Trouble'' (2006), '' The Slave Hunters'' (2010), ''Queen of the Office'' (2013) and ''My Fair Lady'' (2016).
Career
Oh was born and r ...
as Wang Seong-ki
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Kang Ye-won
Kang Ye-won (born Kim Ji-eun; March 15, 1979) is a South Korean actress best known for her roles in '' Tidal Wave'', '' Harmony'' and '' Quick''.
Filmography Film
Television series
Variety show
Musicals
Awards and nominations
Persona ...
as Gil Sin-seol
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Ha Joo-hee as Maeng In-young
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Kim Min-kyo
Kim Min-kyo (, born April 15, 1974) is a South Korean actor and director. He is well known as a cast member ('crew') on the tvN entertainment show ''Saturday Night Live Korea'.
Career
He has been performing as a stage actor on several Korea ...
as Photographer
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Hong Seok-cheon
Hong Seok-cheon (born February 3, 1971) is a South Korean actor, television personality, restaurateur and member of the dissolved Democratic Labor Party. He caused considerable controversy in his home country when he came out as gay in 2000, a ...
as Psychiatrist
*Kim Chang-ryul as Man on blind date
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Oh Min-suk
Oh Min-suk (born April 22, 1980) is a South Korean actor. He was known by his ex-stage name Han Ki-joo.
Filmography
Film
Television series
Web series
Television shows
Music videos
Awards and nominations
Notes
Reference ...
as Owner of foreign car
*Hong Yi-joo as Ahn Gong-joo
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Lee Hyo-jung as Sin-seol's father
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Hong Yeo-jin
Hong Yeo-jin (born February 5, 1958) is a South Korean actress. Hong's family immigrated to California, United States in 1977, and she began working as a broadcast announcer and commercial model in Los Angeles in 1978. She joined the Miss Korea ...
as Sin-seol's mother
*Han Seong-sik as Kim Young-chul
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Ji Yoon-ho
Ji Yoon-ho (born Yoon Byung-ho; March 16, 1991) is a South Korean actor.
Filmography
Television series
Films
References
External links
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1991 births
Living people
21st-century South Korean male actors
South Korean male televisi ...
as Ahn Gong-joo's high school student
Reception
''Love Clinic'' was released on May 7, 2015, and opened in fourth place at the South Korean box office. By its third week, it has grossed () from 204,000 admissions.
References
External links
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*{{hancinema film, Love_Clinic, Love Clinic
2015 romantic comedy films
South Korean romantic comedy films
Showbox films
2010s South Korean films