This winter‘s only family comedy film, ‘Big Family’, is expected to please the eyes of audiences with various locations all over the country.

‘Big Family’, which will be released on December 11, tells the story of the owner (Kim Yoon-seok) of the dumpling restaurant ‘Pyeongmanok’, whose family lineage has died out because of his son (Lee Seung-gi) who has become a monk, and who ends up living together in an unexpected and amazing way when his cute grandchildren whom he has never seen in the world visit.

First of all, the temple scenes that appear as major locations in the film were filmed in famous temples all over the country, including Baekyangsa, Gilsangsa, Sujongsa, and Gakwonsa. The temple scenes, which were filmed in famous temples all over the country, including Seoul, Gyeonggi, Jeollanam-do, and Cheonan, convey a liveliness that cannot be realized with CG, and are expected to provide visual satisfaction when watching them on the theater screen, as if visiting an actual temple.

The orphanage, which appears as an important location in the drama, was filmed at Eonyang Cathedral in Ulsan, and the scenes where Ham Moon-seok (Lee Seung-gi) travels around the country to find the secret of his birth were filmed at various locations around the country, including Jecheon Lakeside Road and Cheongpyeong Dam.

Lastly, the amusement park scene, one of the film’s key scenes, was filmed at the actual Lotte World in Jamsil, further upgrading the film‘s quality.

Cinematographer Son Won-ho, who was in charge of filming, said, “Since the film is set in 2000, I looked for a place that could give the spatial background a feeling of the time around 2000. I tried to make the feeling of the space itself as vivid and natural as possible.” Regarding the temple location that appears as an important scene in the film, he said, “When filming temples and hermitages, we had to go at times when there were extremely few people and film very carefully. “We filmed at locations much earlier or later than usual, and tried to capture the scenery of temples and hermitages in their entirety,” he said.



Reporter Seungmi Lee smlee@donga.com