Just weeks after steaming up our screens as a sultry siren in the erotic thriller Hidden Face, actress Park Ji-hyun is back in Forbidden Fairytale, but her role here could not be more different.

In this bubbly and lighthearted Korean romantic comedy from director Lee Jong-suk (The Negotiation), Park plays Dan-bi, who works for the government’s Youth Protection Team reviewing an endless stream of hard-core pornography.

By night, she dreams of following in her late father’s footsteps by writing wholesome children’s fairy tales.

Following a traffic altercation in which she damages a publisher’s vintage car, Dan-bi is cajoled into penning sexually explicit adult fiction to pay for the repairs, and inadvertently becomes an overnight sensation.

Read my full South China Morning Post review here