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Untold Scandal (Hangul: 스캔들 - 조선 남녀 상열지사; RR: Seukandeul - Joseon namnyeo sang'yeoljisa; lit. "Scandal: The Love Story of Men and Women in Joseon") is a 2003 South Korean romantic drama film directed by E J-yong, and starring Bae Yong-joon, Jeon Do-yeon, and Lee Mi-sook. Loosely based on the 18th century French novel Les Liaisons dangereuses, this adaptation takes place in late 18th century Korea, during the Joseon dynasty.

Plot

A beautiful but cynical and manipulative noblewoman makes a bet with her free-spirited womanizing cousin that he can have sex with her if he is able to seduce a young woman of great virtue. He accepts the challenge with enthusiasm though not suspecting the nasty trap he is walking into.

Cast

Bae Yong-joon – Jo-won (Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont)

Jeon Do-yeon – Lady Jeong (Madame Marie de Tourvel)

Lee Mi-sook – Madam Jo (Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil)

Lee So-yeon – Lee So-ok (Cécile de Volanges)

Jo Hyun-jae – Kwon In-ho (Cécile's music tutor Chevalier Raphael Danceny)

Lee Mi-ji – So-ok's mother (Cécile's mother Madame de Volanges)

– Madam Jo's husband (Merteuil's former love, the Comte de Gercourt)

Choi Ban-ya – Chu Wol-yi

Choi Sung-min – slave

Jeon Yang-ja – Vice-Premier's wife

Seo Yoon-ah – Jung-geum

Han Yi-bin – Eun-sil

Jung Jae-jin – elder 2

Kong Ho-suk – elder 3

Na Han-il – Nobleman Yoo

Differences from the original novel

Monsieur de Tourvel (Madame Marie de Tourvel/Lady Jeong's husband), who was away for a court case in the novel, was in the film deceased, making Lady Jeong a widow of nine years. Furthermore, Lady Jeong lived in Ganghwa Island, and in the film, she is living in Seoul as there was a plague at her hometown at that time.

Jo-won (Vicomte Sébastien de Valmont) and Madam Jo (Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil) were in the film cousins (Jo-won the younger cousin), and it is revealed that Jo-won's first love was Madam Jo, whereas in the novel, they were rivals, yet using the same tools for their revenge: sex.

Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil (Madam Jo)'s former lover is arranged to be Cécile's future husband in the novel, but in the film, his character is Madam Jo's husband. In So-ok's case, she is being made into a concubine of Madam Jo's husband for the continuity of the family lineage with the elders' consent.

Lee So-ok (Cécile de Volanges) was ushered in to Madam Jo's care to be the concubine of her husband, and is conspiring with Jo-won to make her pregnant for revenge (with Madam Jo telling her husband what really happened to So-ok at her husband's deathbed).

Chevalier Raphael Danceny was originally Cécile's music tutor in the novel, but in the film, Kwon In-ho (Raphael Danceny's counterpart) is the youngest son of Madam Jo's next-door neighbor and also Lady Jeong's cousin.