A Muse

Eungyo, also called A Muse in some countries, is a 2012 South Korean erotic romantic film adaptation of author Park Bum-shin's novel Eun-gyo. A 70-year-old poet falls in love with a high school girl and is inspired to write a short story about her, but his star student, who is jealous of the relationship, steals his literary work. Plot Lee Jeok-yo (Park Hae-il) is a respected national poet in his 70s. His thirty-something assistant Seo Ji-woo (Kim Mu-yeol) recently published his first book, described as a genre novel with psychological insight, and it has shot to the top of the bestseller lists. Finding a young high schoolgirl, Eun-gyo (Kim Go-eun), asleep on a chair on his porch, Jeok-yo, instantly enamored, agrees to give her a part-time job cleaning his home. As Jeok-yo spends more time in Eun-gyo's company, long-lost feelings are awakened within him, and her exuberance, sense of fun, and genuine warmth towards him make him see himself as the young man he used to be. His love and need for her grow not only because he finds her incredibly beautiful, but also because of how she makes him feel. Deeply smitten, Jeok-yo begins to write a short story about his imagined sexual relationship with the young woman. However, as the two get ever closer, Ji-woo condemns their relationship as inappropriate and repugnant, and he steals the short story to publish under his own name. Cast Park Hae-il as Lee Jeok-yo Kim Mu-yeol as Seo Ji-woo Kim Go-eun as Han Eun-gyo Jeong Man-shik as President Park Jang Yun-sil as Reporter Jeong Seo-in as repair Landlady Ahn Min-Yeong as Poet