Girl Scout (Korean: 걸스카우트) is a 2008 South Korean action comedy film directed by Kim Sang-man.
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Plot
Set in Bongcheon-3 dong, a deprived area in Seoul, four women are struggling financially. They are I-man (Na Moon-hee), a woman in her 60s working at a supermarket to look after her unemployed son; Bong-soon (Lee Kyung-sil), a widow who lives with an ill child; Mi-kyung (Kim Sun-a), a divorcee; and Eun-ji (Go Joon-hee), a caddie. They are determined to raise the money to open up a store in their neighborhood, and it is their sole hope and dream. But things get much worse when Hye-ran (Im Ji-eun), the head of their credit union, runs off with their life savings. Desperate, they create a team called Bong Chon Girl Scouts Troop #3 to recover the stolen money, and chaos ensues.
Cast
Kim Sun-a as Choi Mi-kyung
Na Moon-hee as Lee I-man
Lee Kyung-sil as Oh Bong-soon
Go Joon-hee as Kang Eun-ji
Park Won-sang as Min Hong-gi
Im Ji-eun as Seong Hye-ran
Ryu Tae-joon as Lee Jong-dae
Choi Jung-woo .as Director Han
Park Hyuk-kwon as Beom-seok
Kim Hyang-gi as Yoon-i, Mi-kyeong's daughter
Yeojin Jeon as waitress
Yang Gi-won as Lee I-man's son
Jeong Mi-seong as supermarket manager
Yeo Min-goo as Han-seo Capital employee
Jeong Se-hyeong as security employee
Release
Girl Scout was released in South Korea on June 5, 2008, after the postponement of its planned earlier release in April. On its opening weekend it was ranked fifth at the box office, grossing US$855,238 and receiving 163,122 admissions. It eventually grossed US$1,523,142, with total admissions at 249,114.