This film attracted no less than 1.12 million viewers 5 days after its premier screening in Korea. Besides offering film lovers a compelling tale about forbidden love, director Lee Jae-young also spared no efforts to enrich his work with details about the relationship of the characters, making the movie a well-balanced mixture between erotic allurement and dramatic elements.

Adapted from the French novel Dangerous Liaisons, Untold Scandal sets the story in ancient Korea. Bae Yong-jun, the acclaimed Korean TV hunk, makes his movie debut as a classic playboy Cho Won who has always had a crush on his married aunt Madam Jo (Lee Mi-sook). The ambiguous relation between these two becomes more complicated when the concubine (Lee So-yeon) and Madam Suk (Jeon Do-youn) come into the scene. In order to attract the attention of Madam Jo, Cho Won seeks to seduce Madam Suk who has always been defending her chastity.

Great expectations have long been cultivated before this movie hit the market mostly because of the surprisingly bold attempt Bae Yong-jun made. Getting rid of ... [Read more]