Say ‘I Do’ to Korean rom-com Wedding Palace

MANILA, Philippines - Wedding Palace has been called the Korean-American version of My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Abandoned at the altar, Jason’s (Brian Tee) family approaches bridal replacements, but to their horror, he rejects them all. On a business trip to Korea, he meets the girl of his dreams, Na Young (Kang Hye-jung).

They embark on a cyber love affair fueled by imagination and video chats.

Jason proposes and his family is delighted. When Na Young arrives, Jason’s wacky family screws things up at every turn causing a roller coaster of ups and downs to this modern romance. Jason will have to bridge the gap between family expectations and true love.

Wedding Palace is the first-ever US-Korea indie co-production and was shot in Los Angeles and Seoul.

Lead star Tee is an American actor of Japanese and Korean descent who is best known for his role as the Drift King in Fast and The Furious, Tokyo Drift. Since then, he has been in a variety of roles in film and television. Prior to Wedding Palace (wherein he co-stars with Kang Hye Jung), he did Mortal Kombat: Legacy Season 2 and played the antagonist Noburo Mori in the Hollywood blockbuster The Wolverine starring Hugh Jackman.

In an interview, Tee said of his fun role and how people can relate to the story of meddling relatives in Wedding Palace, “That’s what we were shooting for. We tried to make a comedy that’s universal with laughter and transcends culture. If we succeeded, then we’ve done our jobs.

Asked if his real-life parents were anything like his onscreen folks, he said, “I’ve had friends with that dynamic of having the overbearing parents telling them they need to get married and even having arranged marriages. Fortunately, I grew up with a very liberal mom. She was a broadcaster and so she let me do my own thing. But I could relate to the cast of characters and the zaniness having grown up in Korean town (in Los Angeles) with my friends.”

Wedding Palace opens today in Philippine theaters.