The Taste of Money (2012) on Netflix
Joo Young-jak works as private secretary to Chairman Yoon, whose wife Baek Geum-ok holds the real power in the family. He arranges women for a visiting American businessman the family needs.
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Plot summary
Chairman Yoon heads a conglomerate and shares a luxurious house outside Seoul with his wife, Baek Geum-ok, and their children. The real control of the family's affairs sits with Geum-ok, the daughter of a businessman who once held great influence. Nami, the couple's daughter, is divorced, and Chul is their son. Joo Young-jak, the chairman's secretary, comes from humble origins. Robert Altman, a businessman from the United States, is in the country for a deal that matters to the family, and Young-jak's task is to keep him happy with women. Eva, the family's Filipina maid, works in the house, which Geum-ok watches through hidden cameras.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Taste of Money (2012)
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- At 64, Youn Yuh-jung appears in her first on-camera sex scene, in The Taste of Money; she said she did not know such a scene existed when she began, and asked the director whether audiences would be offended to see an old woman naked on screen.
- After The Taste of Money screened at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, director Im Sang-soo told Korean media that his failure to win was a personal "tragedy" and his participation a mistake, because he was telling a "very Korean story" that foreigners can't understand.
