In the early stages of Eungyo (also known as 'A Muse'), Jeok-yo is clearly a man who feels that he is in the twilight years of his life, with all those he comes into contact with treating him as a venerated and learned elder - the literary community wanting to create a memorial to his life's work and Ji-woo constantly referring to him as a father figure - adding to his belief that that is truly what he is, and all he is. They (whoever 'they' are) say that we're only as old as we feel and while it's debatable whether or not that truly is the case, it is almost undeniable that our feelings about ourselves are (to a degree, at least) coloured and affected by our perception of how others see us.

However, as the two get ever closer, Ji-woo finds it impossible to hold back from vocalising his opposition to what he deems to be an inappropriate and wholly repugnant relationship and, on finding Jeok-yo's manuscript, his abhorrence (and jealousy of both Jeok-yo and Eun-gyo's realtionship and the beauty of Jeok-yo's writing) boils over and he decides to steal the short story to publish under his own name. Spending more and more time with Eun-gyo, Jeok-yo quickly becomes deeply smitten with her and begins to write a short story about his imagined sexual relationship with the effervescent young woman.

On finding a young high school girl, Eun-gyo (Kim Go-eun), asleep on a chair on his porch, he is instantly enamoured and rather than chastising her for breaking into his property, he (subsequently) agrees to give her a part-time job cleaning his home. Lee Jeok-yo (Park Hae-il) is a highly respected national poet in his 70’s who has recently ghost-written Seo Ji-woo's (Kim Moo-yeol) first novel. A dirty scandal!Ī story about a national poet having sex with a minor? Sir, you are a dirty old man!' 'A relationship between a 70-year-old man and a high school girl isn't love. Eungyo (aka A Muse) - 2012 South Korea) Hangul Celluloid Review

Sinopsis a muse