'Tune in for Love' hits record pre-release ticket sales

Aug 28, 2019

Kim Go-eun and Jung Hae-in star in "Tune in for Love."

Melodramatic movie "Tune in for Love" has rewritten the history of Korean films by selling 100,000 tickets before its release on Wednesday.

This is more than twice the previous record of 41,300 set by "A Werewolf Boy" (2012).

"Tune in for Love" portrays pure romance between Hyunwoo (Jung Hae-in) and Misoo (Kim Go-eun) in the pre-mobile phone era of the early 1990s. A radio program ― "Yoo Yeol's Music Album," which KBS FM aired between 1994 and 2007 ― serves as a critical medium that keeps them connected and their love flourishes against many odds.

Critics say people in their 30s and older seem to be impressed by the movie's plot that evokes the nostalgia of the pre-mobile era.