My First Client (2019)

Profile

• Movie: My First Client (English title)
• Revised romanization: Eorin Uiroein
• Hangul: 어린 의뢰인

• Director: Jang Gyu-Sung
• Writer: Min Kyung-Eun, Jang Gyu-Sung
• Producer: Do Young-Hoon
• Cinematographer: Jo Jung-Hee
• Release Date: May 22, 2019
• Runtime: 114 min.
• Genre: Drama / Law
• Distributor: Lotte Entertainment
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea

Synopsis

Jung-Yeob (Lee Dong-Hwi) tries to find a job as a lawyer for a law firm in Seoul. It’s not so easy for him, with Jung-Yeob being from a smaller city. In the meantime, he begins work at a child welfare center in his hometown. He goes with a co-worker from the child welfare center to the police station and meets 10-year-old Da-Bin (Choi Myung-Bin). The young girl reported to the police that her stepmother Ji-Sook (Yoo-Sun) choked her around her neck, but there isn’t anything Jung-Yeon is able to do. Da-Bin is returned to her family. Da-Bin and her 7-year-old brother Min-Joon (Lee Joo-Won) begin visiting Jung-Yeob at the child welfare center daily. He makes an effort to spend time with them to keep his job. Jung-Yeob is aware that the children are abused by their stepmother, but he is powerless to do anything about it.

Jung-Yeob then learns that he has been hired by a law firm in Seoul. Without saying goodbye to Da-Bin and Ji-Sook, he heads off to Seoul. One day, he receives a phone call that Da-Bin has killed her younger brother Min-Joon.