Jeong Doo-hong (정두홍)

Martial Arts Director Jeong Doo-hong

Source | 2009/01/20 | Permalink |

Jeong Doo-hong is in high demand both for TV dramas and the silver screen. He is indispensable to action filmmaking. He directs the most touted Korean films. Jeong is the number one martial arts director in the country.

Fiery passion and innocence

Jeong is undisputedly the country's top martial arts director and the best stunt performer as well. Stories about him are countless. Just to hear about him from other film directors who worked with him will take up half a day. The list of dramas and movies he has worked on would make a thick book. He has always been strong headed, over the top and ready to make the next big scuffle. But any producer who has worked with him once wants to keep him around. Why? Because whatever the film director wants, Jeong can make happen with any means possible. There were more times that the director tried to talk him out of a daring action scene rather than Jeong turning down a director's call. Jeong's eyes are extremely intense when he is dead focuse...| More

Seoul Festival Provides Students Opportunity to Learn about Media

Source | 2008/11/27 | Permalink |

The 2008 Seoul Youth Education Media Festival kicked off on Wednesday.
The four-day-long event held by the Seoul city government provides students an opportunity to experience working in the media and possibly give them some career ideas.
National broadcasters including Arirang TV participated in the festival to give students hands-on media experience.
Elementary, middle, and high school students had the chance to meet actor and director Jeong Doo-hong and learn more about the process of movie production....| More

PiFan to Hold Genre Project Market

Source | 2008/06/24 | Permalink |

The Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (PiFan), now in its 12th edition, is launching a project market under the heading Network of Asian Fantastic Films (NAFF2008). The 5 day platform will be launched during PiFan's 10-day run July 18 – 27 and will present projects from Korea, Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, the US and the UK among others.

NAFF2008 was conceived to provide an impetus to Asian genre cinema and to encourage development and financing of officially selected genre projects. The main section, 'It Project' will present 16 projects from 8 countries and will take place July 20 – 22 at the Koryo Hotel in Bucheon. Business meetings, jury deliberation and cash awards will provide filmmakers exciting opportunities to advance their projects.

Korean projects officially selected are action features "Shanghai" by director JEONG Doo-hong and "A Song of Mobsters" by JEONG Byeong-Gil ("Action Boys") the horror film "Astral Control" (working title), by LEE Kwon ("Attack o...| More

[DVD Review] 'The City of Violence': Lean and Mean

Source | 2008/02/05 | Permalink |

Ryoo Seung-wan's action extravaganza draws upon classics of the genre

Kyu Hyun Kim (qhyunkim)

A Seoul cop, Tae-su (Korea's top action choreographer/stunt artist Jeong Doo-hong), receives the shocking news that his childhood friend Wang-jae (a Ryoo Seung-wan regular, Ahn Kil-gang), a retired wise guy, has been stabbed to death by a handful of punks. Tae-su goes back to his hometown, On-sung, to attend Wang-jae's funeral. He immediately smells a rat.

The town is under the thumb of their old buddy Pil-ho (Lee Beom-soo, "Oh! Brothers", "Superstar Mr. Gam"), now a big shot gangster and involved in a citywide real estate development scheme. Tae-su reluctantly teams up with the short-tempered Seok-hwan (director Ryoo Seung-wan) to avenge Wang-jae's murder.

Ryoo Seung-wan, one of the most talented Korean directors and an action film maven, hit the jackpot last time by branching out into the sports drama in "Crying Fist". For the latest endeavor, he consciously returned to his cinem...| More

Classic horror theme and martial arts collaboration

Source | 2006/11/21 | Permalink |

"Arang" uses a classic theme of the horror genre ― a serial murder.
So-young (Song Yoon-Ah), a female detective who has just returned from a suspension, teams up with Hyun-gi (Lee Dong-wook) for a multiple homicide investigation.


"Arang" 97 minutes Directed by Ahn Sang-hoon Starring Song Yoon-ah, Lee Dong-wook Horror

The two find that all the murder victims had known a girl who went missing 10 years earlier from a seaside village. When So-young visits the village, she hears a bizarre rumor of a female ghost that appears in a salt store in the village.
The murders continue and So-young suffers nightmares.
"Arang" is the debut film by director Ahn Sang-hoon yet it shows the essence of a classic horror flick.
Song's performance as the film's female lead, following her bitter horror debut in "Face", for which she earned bad reviews, has progressed noticeably in the role of the female detective. Lee's film debut is also moderately successful.
The DVD's special features, w...| More