Fortune Salon (2009)

Profile

Movie: Fortune Salon (English title) / Cheongdam Fortune Teller (literal title)
Revised romanization: Cheongdam Bosal
Hangul: 청담보살

Director: Kim Jin-Young
Writer: Kim Soo-Mi, Kim Jin-Young, Choi Won
Producer: Park Choon-Bae, Lee Seo-Yeol
Cinematographer: Jung Jin-Ho
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Runtime: 119 min.
Genre: Comedy
Distributor: Next Entertainment World
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Plot

Tae-rang (Park Ye-Jin) is gifted clairvoyant who runs a posh fortune telling salon in Cheongdam, Seoul. She helps guide her elite clients on matters of love and life altering choices. Yet fate has it that Tae-rang’s personal life is always cursed. All the men that Tae-rang has shown interest have become harmed in one way or another. As a child, Tae-rang’s mother, also a clairvoyant, told Tae-rang that she is destined to meet a man born May 16, 1978 at 11 pm before she turns 28.

One day, Seung-won (Im Chang-Jung), a former horse jockey now a maintenance worker for horses, spots a 10,000 Won bill on the street and attempts to pick it up. This is when he is hit by a car driven by Tae-rang. It turns out Ki-su was born on May 16, 1978 at 11 pm …