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Audio Format: DD 5.1 Video Format: Widescreen 1.85:1 (Anamorphic) Languages: Korean, Thai Subtitles: English, Korean, Thai Region Code: 3 Year Made: 2006 Running Time: 125 Release Date: 07/11/2008
Young-woon, who helps his mother's barbeque restaurant but jobless in reality, and his friends flocking together, don't consider any counterplan for their lives. One day, a sexy bold saloon girl Yeon-ah attracts Young-woon's attention. Even though he already has a pretty fiancee, he can't turn down other relationship to have fun as a play. Gathering altogether with his friends, this couple repeats fights and make ups.
This seems not that understandable, but it is a 'real' love to them. One day his mother knows this relationship, and she suddenly sets a wedding date for him. Now, he has to get married, but he's afraid of Yeon-ah. So he starts to escape from Yeon-ah, and she starts to look for him after she's pissed off knowing the truth.
The movie 'The Unbearable Lightness of Dating' is a story of sloppy and messed-up love, the lives of the 'uncool' people.
 Helping out in a restaurant operated by his mother, Yeong-un (Kim Seung-woo) is approached one day by a bargirl, Yeon-a (Jang Jin-yeong), who utters the words "I came to charm you", and from then on they launch into a relationship. Their love seems capricious, as they would curse and pull their hairs out of their heads in one moment, then roll around the bed in the next. But Yeong-un already has a meek fiancee, and he starts to avoid Yeon-a when confronted with his marriage. But Yeon-a cannot give him up. The words that appear the most frequently in this movie are curse words. Yeong-un's friends drink and gamble, people who live life with a "laisser-faire" attitude.
Director Kim Hae-gon seems to have an incisive take into the bum mentality. Even in these lives a sense of class difference exists. While class does not seem to matter in love, differences seem to surface when confronted with marriage. As Yeong-un says to his mother, "Do you think I'm crazy? With a barmaid?" Yeon-a cannot aspire to rise to the same level even with a loafer like Yeong-un. She makes for a tragic figure.
When Yeon-a screams and swears, the desperate feeling of a lowlife is both sorrowful and cathartic at the same time. In each interview Jang Jin-yeong had said that "it's hard to focus on the role", but she was either exaggerating or is else a wonderful actor. Though he is perhaps different in real life, Kim Seung-woo is perfect for the role as a shifty character.
The tears of the two actors at the end are aimed straight for the audiences' hearts. The movie then becomes melodramatic. Yeon-a leads a life of a victim, having given up both her heart and her body. The story resembles a 1970's type hostess movie, where the heroine acts bold but ends up crying because of a man. But what can be done. Love and life is melodramatic. For viewers 18 and over.
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