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Korea Box Office: Phone Scam Comedy ‘Citizen of a Kind’ Wins on Slow Weekend
'Citizen of a Kind', comfortably topped the South Korean box office on a slow late-January weekend.
“ Citizen of a Kind,” a comedy-drama about a woman who takes matters into her own hands after becoming the victim of a scam, fulfilled its promise from an earlier week of previews. Directed by Park Young-ju, “Citizen” tells the tale of woman whose business has gone up in flames and takes a hefty loan in an attempt to restart it. (The connected themes of phone scams and forced labor are becoming recurring topics in Asian films and TV, with “No More Bets,” a Chinese title, where the gangsters are based in Southeast Asia, the highest profile example from last year.
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