Choi Hyeon, a professor in Beijing, attends a friend’s funeral and meets Chun-won, a colleague who seven years previous travelled to Gyeongju. Talking over drinks the two reminisce about their times there. Choi mentions a certain café which had an obscene painting hanging on the walls but Chun-won remembers nothing. The next day on a whim Choi decides to return to Gyeongju and find the painting. He finds the cafe but not the painting instead the establishment is run by an attractive lady named Yun-hui.

In the vain of films such as Midnight in Paris and Richard Linklater’s Before trilogy, Gyeongju centres on a romantic journey in a hauntingly beauty location. The city finds itself being just as important as the two talented leads in Park Hae-il (The Host) and Shin Min-a