The Way Home (2002 film)

[3] Seven-year old Sang-woo (Yoo Seung-ho) is taken to the Korean countryside to stay with his 78-year-old mute, but not deaf, grandmother (Kim Eul-boon) while his mother searches for a new job in Seoul.

Sang-woo, a spoiled city boy, is unimpressed by the unsophisticated nature of his poor grandmother's home, which has neither electricity nor running water.

But when she has none, in an effort to coerce her, Sang-woo insults her, throws away her shoes, breaks one of her vases, and draws graffiti on her house walls.

When this plan fails to extract money from his grandmother, Sang-woo steals her ornamental hairpin to trade for batteries.

He attempts to trade the silver hairpin at a local shop but the shopkeeper, a friend of his grandmother's, hits him on the head and sends him home.

Sang-woo complains about eating home-cooked food and demands his grandmother provide him with Kentucky Fried Chicken.

As she is unable to read or write, he starts to make some simple greeting cards to him to express his love and gratitude.

His depth of feeling for his grandmother is revealed when the bus leaves and he leaps to the back window to wave his tearful farewells.