the recordings of his show on the internet, soon the big bosses in Seoul become aware of Gon's fame and want him to make a comeback—but without his manager. Cast Park Joong-hoon as Choi Gon Ahn Sung-ki as Park Min-soo Choi Jung-yoon as Kang Seok-young Jung Gyu-soo as Bureau chief Jung Seok-yong as Sound engineer Park Yoon Joo-sang as Director Kim No Brain (Lee Seong-woo, Hwang Hyeon-seong, Jeong Jae-hwan, Jeong Min-joon) as members of fictional rock band East River Ahn Mi-na (credited as Han Yeo-woon) as Ms. Kim Lee Il-seop Kim Kwang-sik as Mr. Jang Jo Ryeon Kang San as Ho-young Kim Tan-hyeon as company president Choi Son Young-soon as Ho-young's grandmother Kim Ji-heon as Ms. Park Bae Jang-su Kim Hyun-ah as middle-aged woman in Misari Lee Jae-gu as head of Wonju Bureau Lee Joon-ik as Chinese restaurant cook Kang Gwang-won Kim Dae-ho Choi Cheong-ja Hwang In-joon Lee Sun-geum Oh Seo-won as nurse Kim Kyeong-ae as owner of Cheongrok Dabang coffee shop Go Seok-dong Won Woo Shin Young-jae Kim Jang-hoon Im Baek-chun as principal Lee Yeong-seok Shin Jung-geun as Misari president Nam Jeon Ki-kwang Jo Kyung-hoon as man with tough face Jeon Dae-byeong Production After making Korean cinematic history with his record-breaking hit period film King and the Clown (2005), director Lee Joon-ik wanted his follow-up to be a smaller-scaled, character-driven film. Like King and the Clown, Lee wanted his next film to also be about the lives of outsiders, saying, "I think the tragedy of capitalist society is that so many people endlessly struggle to become part of the mainstream. I want to keep showing that those outside the mainstream of society can also be happy." Screenwriter Choi Seok-hwan brought him a script he had been working on for years; Choi had collaborated with Lee on his previous films King and the Clown and Once Upon a Time in a Battlefield (2003). An early draft revolved around the character of a young, female manager, but Achim Pictures president Jung Seung-hye pointed Lee in a different narrative direction, and the film became a bittersweet dramedy about two older men. Actor Park Joong-hoon (who once experienced the life of a KBS 2FM DJ in the 1990s) was cast first, and for the role opposite him, Park suggested his real-life longtime friend Ahn Sung-ki, with whom he had starred in three previous films, namely, Chilsu and Mansu (1988), Two Cops (1993) and