Waikiki Brothers is a band going nowhere. After another depressing gig, the saxophonist quits, leaving the three remaining members - lead singer and guitarist Sung-woo, keyboardist Jung-suk, and drummer Kang-soo, to continue on the road. The band ends up at Sung-woo's hometown, Suanbo, which was a popular hot spring resort in the '80s. The '80s and early '90s was also a time when live bands were very in, long before karaokes were around. The main resort now is the Waikiki Hot...more

Waikiki Brothers is a band going nowhere. After another depressing gig, the saxophonist quits, leaving the three remaining members - lead singer and guitarist Sung-woo, keyboardist Jung-suk, and drummer Kang-soo, to continue on the road. The band ends up at Sung-woo's hometown, Suanbo, which was a popular hot spring resort in the '80s. The '80s and early '90s was also a time when live bands were very in, long before karaokes were around. The main resort now is the Waikiki Hotel, and their gig at the hotel nightclub starts well, until Jung-suk and Kang-soo start to play out their worst vices. For Sung-woo, the calm center of the band, the return home is filled with reservations of disappointments and a lost love. He reunites with his old high school friends, the original Waikiki Brothers, and finds them far from happy. He runs into In-hee, his unrequited first love. She was the lead singer in a girls' high school band. Now widowed, In-hee seems desperate to try their relationship again. Sung-woo also runs into his old music teacher, Byung-joo, and tries to help him get work. But the band is fired from the nightclub and Sung-woo is forced to perform in karaoke bars. And, then, tragedy strikes when Soo-chul dies in an accident.


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