Samjin Company English Class

Samjin Company English Class is a 2020 South Korean comedy-drama film written and directed by Lee Jong-pil, starring Go Ah-sung, Esom and Park Hye-su. It was released on October 21, 2020.

Plot
In 1995, three female employees at Samjin Company, who are given the opportunity to be promoted if they score at least 600 points at the TOEIC test, enroll in English classes. Lee Ja-young from the production management department, Jung Yu-na from the marketing department and Shim Bo-ram from the accounting department had joined the company straight out of high school and are still low-level employees despite being with the company for eight years and possessing necessary practical "street smarts". One day, Ja-young notices polluted waste water leaking from a factory where she had been sent to. Being a lover of mystery novels, she decides to investigate and Yu-na and Bo-ram join her quest to find out what illegal activities their company might be involved in. The challenge remains for them to find and expose the truth without losing their jobs.

Cast

 * Go Ah-sung as Lee Ja-young
 * Esom as Jung Yoo-na
 * Park Hye-su as Shim Bo-ram
 * Cho Hyun-chul as Choi Dong-soo
 * Kim Jong-soo as Bong Hyun-chul
 * Kim Won-hae as Ahn Gi-chang
 * Bae Hae-sun as Ban Eun-kyung
 * David Lee McInnis as Billy Park
 * Baek Hyun-jin as Oh Tae-young
 * Lee Sung-wook as Hong Soo-chul
 * Choi Soo-im as Jo Min-jung
 * Jung Yi-seo as Audit office employee
 * Lee Joo-young as Song So-ra
 * Tyler Rasch as English instructor

Production
Principal photography began in late October 2019.

Release
The film was theatrically released on October 21, 2020.

It was invited at the 20th New York Asian Film Festival. It was featured in 'Standouts’ strand and screened at Lincoln Center and SVA Theatre in the two-week festival held from August 6 to 22, 2021 in New York.

Box office
The film topped the South Korean box office for six days following its release.