With online tickets selling out a 2,000-seat outdoor movie theater in a record seven seconds , '' Always '' was the opening film of the 2011 Busan International Film Festival . It was released in theaters on October 20 , 2011 . In South Korea , the film had a total of 1,027,614 admissions nationwide . Having closed himself away from the world , former boxer Cheol-min starts a new part-time job as a parking lot attendant . One night , he is sitting in the tiny pay booth in the parking lot and staring at the small television when a young woman , Jung-hwa , walks into the tollbooth . She offers something to Cheol-min and sits next to him . Cheol-min realizes the woman is blind and she is confusing him for the parking attendant who worked there previously . Their lives change forever from this point
2011 Busan International Film Festival
16th Busan International Film Festival
Always (2011 film)