The Scam

Feb 12, 2009

1h 59m

★ 5.7

Overview

Hyun-soo is a skillful individual stock investor, so-called ‘ant’. One day, he cashes in up seventy thousand dollars through stock trading and this jackpot gets him implicated in a $60 million stock manipulation by scam artists from various fields. With a huge pot of money before their eyes, the scam seems to be perfectly unfolding. But another scam is emerging underneath team as the scammers chase each other and are being chased at the end.

Genres

Crime

Adventure

Thriller

Action

Production Companies

Bidangil Pictures

Sponge

Showbox

The Scam Trailers

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Cast

Kang Hyun-soo

Park Yong-ha

Yu Seo-yeon

Kim Min-jung

Hwang Jong-ku

Park Hee-soon

Jo Min-hyung

Kim Moo-yul

Brian Choi

Jun Kim

Hwang's security #1

Lee Dong-yong

Mr. Lee

Jo Jae-yun

Duk Sang-Lee

Park Jae-woong

Park Chang-joo

Jo Deok-hyeon

Secretary Nam

Kim Yeong-hoon

Kim Seong-Beom

Kwon Jae-hwan

Lee Jae-Hak

Kim Seung-hoon

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