| Jungle Fish | |
|---|---|
| ๐ Image Promotional poster | |
| Hangul | ์ ๊ธํผ์ฌ |
| RR | Jeonggeulpiswi |
| MR | Chลnggลญlp'ishwi |
| Genre | Teen drama |
| Written by |
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| Directed by | Choi Sung-bum |
| Starring | |
| Country of origin | South Korea |
| Original language | Korean |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Kim Gwang-pil |
| Producer | Kim Jeong-hwan |
| Production locations | Seoul, South Korea |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | KBS2 |
| Release | May 5, 2008 (2008-05-05) |
Jungle Fish (Korean: ์ ๊ธํผ์ฌ) is a 2008 South Korean youth television special starring Kim Soo-hyun and Park Bo-young. Based on a true story, the drama depicts the pressures placed on students to achieve and gain admission to prestigious colleges and universities. Also, it showcased new interactive blogging. The series marked Kim's first official lead role. It aired on KBS2 on 5 May 2008 at 19:20 (KST), and is available for worldwide streaming through KBS World's official YouTube channel.[1][2][3][4]
The special recorded a viewership rating of 3.3%. It received critical acclaim for filming and editing, and acting by a cast of young performers winning numerous awards, including the Peabody Award. It became the KBS show with the most international awards in history.[5]
It was given a theatrical screening on 23 September 2010 at the Lotte Cinema at Konkuk University. A television series, Jungle Fish 2, was created featuring a different cast, and aired in 2010 on KBS.[6][7][8][9]
Summary
[edit]The drama Jungle Fish, which means a fish that lived on the coast of Africa and fell into the jungle by a whirlwind, portrays the current youth (fish) who are struggling for the better future (beach) while suffering from the reality (jungle) of the entrance exam.
The story is about high school students around Han Jae-ta (Kim Soo-hyun) who share their concerns and problems through the blog. One day, an examination paper leak incident occurs at his school through special tutoring. The class leader leads Jae-ta and digs into the problem to confirm "Who is the protagonist of the incident?", and the incident is gradually amplified through Jae-ta's blog. Through this incident, Jae-ta and his friends are increasingly in conflict and skepticism about "the value of friendship and success."
Cast
[edit]Main
[edit]- Kim Soo-hyun as Han Jae-ta
- A high-school student, who has good photography skills and runs a blog about his daily life.
- Park Bo-young as Lee Eun-soo
- Her mother wants her to enroll in a prestigious college. She unburdens her daily life problems through the blog.
Supporting
[edit]- Hwang Chan-sung as Park Young-sam
- Jae-ta's friend who leads him to find out who stole the exam question papers.
- Jang Ki-bum as Han Dong-hee
- Jae-ta's friend who comes in skepticism about the friendship with him after the incident.
- Cha Min-ji as Kang-sol
- Eun-soo's good friend who refuses to talk with her after learning the truth.
- Seo Hye-jin as Na Mi-rae
- Eun-soo's classmate who takes special classes with her and Dong-hee.
- Ryu Hyo-young as Jung Yoo-mi
- Kim C as Jae-ta's uncle
- Kim Dong-beom as speaker
Awards
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| Ceremony | Year | Award | Result | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan East Asia PD Forum | 2008 | Excellence Award | Won | [10] |
| Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Awards | Grand Prize - TV Youth | Won | ||
| Seoul Drama Festival Awards | Best Juvenile Series | Won | ||
| Peabody Award | 2009 | Award Winner | Won |
References
[edit]- ^ <๊นํฌ์ธ๊ณ ์ฌ๊ฑด ์์ฌ ์ฒญ์๋ ๋๋ผ๋ง ๋ฑ์ฅ> [A youth drama appeared in the case of Gimpo Foreign Language High School>]. Yonhap (in Korean). April 17, 2008. Archived from the original on January 17, 2023. Retrieved October 7, 2020 โ via Naver.
- ^ Kim, Kook-hwa (April 17, 2008). '์ ๊ธํผ์ฌ' ๊น์ํ, ์ ์๋ฐํํ์์ ๋๋ฌผ ํํ ['Jungle Fish' Kim Soo-hyun, tears popping at the production presentation]. OSEN (in Korean). Naver. Archived from the original on January 17, 2023. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Min-jung (May 4, 2008). ์ฒญ์๋ ๋๋ผ๋ง '์ ๊ธํผ์ฌ', ์ด๋ฆฐ์ด ๋ ๋ฐฉ์ ํ์ [Youth drama 'Jungle Fish' confirmed to air on Children's Day]. OSEN (in Korean). Naver. Archived from the original on January 17, 2023. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ "Jungle Fish". The Peabody Awards. Archived from the original on June 18, 2020. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ ์ ๊ธํผ์ฌ2 ์๋ฆฌ์ฆ ์ ์ ๊ฐ๋ฅํ ๊น.. ์ํฐ์ ๋ (in Korean). 2010-12-27. Archived from the original on 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
- ^ Han, Sang-hee (September 26, 2010). "Realism essential for local teen dramas". The Korea Times. Archived from the original on June 8, 2019. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Min-jung (May 6, 2008). '์ ๊ธํผ์ฌ', 3.3% ์์ฒญ๋ฅ ๋ณด๋ค ๋ ๋น๋ ์ด์ [Why 'Jungle Fish' shined more than 3.3% viewership]. OSEN (in Korean). Naver. Archived from the original on January 17, 2023. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ Choi, Na-young (April 24, 2009). '์ ๊ธํผ์ฌ', ํผ๋ฐ๋์ ์์ ๊ธฐ๋ ์ฌ๋ฐฉ์ก ['Jungle Fish' re-broadcast to commemorate the Peabody Award]. OSEN (in Korean). Naver. Archived from the original on January 17, 2023. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ ๋ฐ๋ณด์ใ๊น์ํ ์ฃผ์ฐ '์ ๊ธํผ์ฌ' ํน๋ณ๊ฐ๋ด [Special release of 'Jungle Fish' starring Park Bo-young and Kim Soo-hyun]. Yonhap (in Korean). Naver. September 16, 2010. Archived from the original on January 17, 2023. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ Kim, Su-jin (October 1, 2008). '์ ๊ธํผ์ฌ', ๆฅ ๋์์์ PDํฌ๋ผ ์ฐ์์ ์์ ['Jungle Fish' won the Excellence Award at the East Asia PD Forum]. Star News (in Korean). Naver. Archived from the original on January 17, 2023. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
- ^ KBS '์ ๊ธํผ์ฌ', ํผ๋ฒ๋์ ์์ [KBS 'Jungle Fish' won the Peabody Award]. Yonhap (in Korean). Naver. April 2, 2009. Archived from the original on January 17, 2023. Retrieved October 7, 2020.
External links
[edit]- Jungle Fish official KBS website (in Korean)
- Jungle Fish at HanCinema