Herb (2007)

Profile

Movie: Herb
Revised romanization: Heobeu
Hangul: 허브

Director: Heo In-Moo
Writer: Heo In-Moo, Jeong Seo-Won, Lee Jae-Yoon, Son Hyun-Hee
Producer: Park Mu-Seung
Cinematographer: Yun Hong-Sik
Release Date: January 11, 2007
Runtime: 113 min
Genre: Drama
Production Budget: US$ 3M
Studio: KM Culture
Distributor: Showbox
Language: Korean
Country: South Korea

Plot

Sang-Eun (Kang Hye-Jung) is a pretty 20-year-old girl, who is warm-hearted and possess an extraordinary gift for folding paper into various figures. She has a loving mom (Bae Jong-Ok) and friends, but she is also mentally disabled. Sang-Eun has the intelligence of a 7-year-old child. She learns everything slowly, but there is still a lot of things she doesn’t know about. Sang-Eun is fixated with the idea that she will meet the prince of her dreams, like in the fairy tales she so often reads.

One day, Sang-Eun meets a traffic officer, that she believes may be the prince of her dreams. The traffic officer is named Jong Bum (Jung Kyung-Ho) and he is also a playboy. Jong Bum mistakenly believes Sang-Eun is a lawyer and approaches her. Once Jong Bum realizes that she is mentally challenged he leaves.

Sang-Eun returns home only to find her mom crying. Her mom has just returned from a hospital appointment. Sang-Eun, while placing items into boxes & wraps by year, is now worried that her mom may soon go away like her friend’s grandmother.