Han Ji Won (Son Yae Jin - April Snow and A Moment To Remember) is a private banker, always on the prowl and looking to seduce men. She meets Min Joon (Song Il Gook - Red Eye) a man with his own talents in the area of romance and just as equal to the task when it comes to seduction. It looks like Ji Won has finally met her match. The game is afoot and we will see who comes out victorious in the end. The Art of Seduction has all the ingredients of a Hollywood romantic comedy. The lead actress is hot. The lead actor is hot (I guess). The circumstances they find themselves in lend heavily towards comedy and laughs. Director and screenwriter Oh Ki Hwan follows the path of typical Hollywood romance for a while but then his story stays the course and does not get muddled in the latter's usual formula. Let me explain. Hollywood romances mostly follow like this. Player meets player. Players play off each other until one or both of them get hurt. Players realize they love each other and the games stop. Players fall in love and you've finished writhing in the cinema aisles come the end of the credits. Oh avoids falling into the trap of this romantic movie cliché. Don't be mislead, The Art of Seduction is stock romantic comedy from start to finish. But what I found refreshing about the movie was that Oh stayed away from including a turn of drama in his movie to bring any sort of change into his characters. The reason is, his characters know who they are and they're comfortable with this. There is no guilt or second thought about what they are doing to their, for lack of a better term, conquests. And while the end result is a quick romp in the sack, there is no hint that they are sexual predators either. To them it is a game, pure and simple. . But to Min Joon and Ji Won, it is about the seduction more so than the end result or rewards. It doesn't mean that it is okay then, since their intentions are neither malicious nor cruel.
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