Jeong Yu-mi (정유미)

[ChanMi's movie news] Eom Tae-woong's fight against a wild hog!

Source | 2008/07/09 | Permalink |

"Cha-woo", a movie of a fight against a man-eating wild hog has finished its filming of 5 months, finally!

The peaceful village proud of no crime for 10 years encounters a murders by a wild hog!...| More

[2007 Drama Highlights] Best Kiss scenes

Source | 2007/12/27 | Permalink |

The drama market of 2007 had been flooded with a large number of high-quality dramas, range from large-scaled dramas of billion dollars worth production cost to much smaller-scaled, but of rich content dramas. Among these great ranges of dramas, the TV viewers had been laughing with character's happiness, crying over their heart-broken love story and were raged with unrealistic settings. Kiss scenes and crying scenes are necessary for the actors to express the complicated internal state of their character as realistic as possible. Following is a list of best kiss scenes chosen by general TV viewers.

▼Unexpected kiss scene ("Prince Hours") – While singer Se7en's transformation into an actor attracted attention, his love story with Heo I-jae was entertaining. The couple seemed to unable to overcome the difference in their social rank as a Crown prince and a court lady. However, Se7en's tough kiss at the end was enough to make the viewers excited.

▼To kiss or not to ki...| More

[MOVIE REVIEW] Mysteriously humorous vision of the Korean family

Source | 2007/02/22 | Permalink |

The institution of the family has long been protected and justified in Korea and elsewhere. But the time-honored system is struggling to survive. A common thread, namely the sugarcoated idea (or ideal) of happy family members living together, is disappearing fast. It's time to say goodbye to the glorious family-oriented era. Or is it?

"Shim's Family", directed by Jeong Yoon-cheol, suggests there are indeed many disheartening developments that deal a lethal, if not final, blow to the family system in Korea. But it also puts forward a new vision that may shed light on where today's trouble-laden family system should go - or sit still and hold onto its shabby place, tooth and nail.

Shim's family is utterly dysfunctional, if not chaotic. The father (Cheon Ho-jin) is a supposedly widely respected school teacher but his everyday life is saddled with suffocating routines. At school, he cannot punish even an unruly student who dares to send text messages during his class.
In this wonder...| More

BONG's Host Takes Top Prize at Blue Dragon

Source | 2006/12/21 | Permalink |

BONG Joon-ho's all-time box-office champion "The Host" made a splash at the 27th Blue Dragon film awards, which held its year-end ceremony Dec. 15th in Seoul. The summer blockbuster about a monster dwelling in Seoul's Han River, gobbled up 5 Blue Dragons, including Best Picture, Best Supporting actor (BYEON Hee-bong) and Best New Actress (KO Ah-seong). The film also picked up honours for lighting and technical achievement.

Veteran duo PARK Joong-hoon and AHN Seong-gi shared the Best Actor prize for their roles in LEE Joon-ik's human-comedy, "Radio Star". Actress KIM Hye-soo took honours for her lead role in the autumn hit "Tazza: The High Rollers" ("The War Of Flower"), which also snagged a Blue Dragon for Best Cinematography.

Recent Thessaloniki Festival top-prize winner "Family Ties" ("The Birth of a Family") picked up a Best Director award for KIM Tae-yong and a Supporting Actress prize JEONG Yu-mi. Coming-of-age comedy, "Like a Virgin", scored several win with Best New ...| More

Film sees love, not blood ties, key for family

Source | 2006/05/22 | Permalink |

It's interesting to compare how Korean and English dictionaries define the word "family". While the former defines "family" as a group of people related to each other through marriage, in the latter (there can be exceptions, mind you) the "marriage" part is gone.

Though not widely accepted as "proper" yet, more and more people form families without marriage in this country as well. Maybe the time is not far off when Korean dictionaries will revise the definition.

What is it, then, that turns a group of people into a family, if not by marriage or blood relations? It is the kind of question the new film "Family Ties" ("The Birth of a Family") asks its audience, to which it also gives its own answer.

The film features three key couples. It starts as a compilation of three unrelated families, but later they turn out to be within the same frame. They include Hyung Cheol (Eom Tae-woong) who comes to live in his sister's (Moon So-ri) house with his lover Moo-shin (Ko Doo-shim), who i...| More