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[ChanMi's movie news] Park Si-yeon, femme fatale

2008/06/26 | Source | Permalink |

This sexy lady has been visiting us through the television and films.

Her dangerous charisma has engulfed us all through the drama "Bitter Sweet Life" where she is the lady in affair also tempts many men in the movies. The movie "Dajimawa Lee" aired on the internet was a big hit back in 2000 starring Im Won-hee in the lead action role.

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Theater Series Much Closer to Audience

2008/05/25 | Source | Permalink |

By Chung Ah-young
Staff Reporter

In a recent television show, renowned actor Jo Jae-hyeon stressed the necessity of star-studded theater marketing in a recent to make audience turn to plays from musicals.

As if his dreams of boosting local dramas came true, a growing number of people are rushing to theaters in Daehangno, central Seoul.

This is because of "Yeongeuk Yeoljeon 2" (A Series of the Best Plays) now showing in the district. The plays started on Dec. 7 and will continue until Jan. 4 next year.

The best-play series project comes four years after the 2004 "Yeongeuk Yeoljeon 1" put 15 best picks selected from the works performed between 1980 and 2000 on stage.

The first one drew about 170,000 people over the year, contributing to boosting the theatrical drama industry in the district.

For the second series, a total of 11 plays are being staged. But this year's series are getting fresh input ― a star-studded cast with the efforts by its programmer Cho, and ...| More

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Park Si-yeon, Challenge Kim Hye-soo of "The War of Flower" as 'femme fatale"

2008/05/22 | Source | Permalink |

Park Si-yeon received the role of Yoo-ri, a provocative, sexy woman, in "Marine Boy", a thriller surrounding a marine boy who transports drugs in the ocean by hiding them in his body.

For Park Si-yeon, her idiot and sexy images are said to coexist, but through "Marine Boy", she will officially act as a 'femme fatale'. Yoo-ri interferes in the business between drug carrier Chun-soo (Kim Kang-woo) and President Kang (Jo Jae-hyeon), who puts Chun-soo in danger.

She has the job of a jazz singer, but she hides her real identity and tempts President Kang and Chun-soo and unfolds her secret plans.

In order to transform into a provocative and sexy Yoo-ri that surpasses Madame Jeong in "The War of Flower", Park Si-yeon has prepared to be thoroughly transformed from her head to her feet. After casting, she is receiving vocal training for a perfect performance as a jazz singer.

A former swimmer, the drug carrier Chun-soo is played by Kim Kang-woo. Chun-soo hides drugs in his body and ...| More

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Myeongdong Theater Lures Shoppers, Foreigners

2008/05/18 | Source | Permalink |

By Chung Ah-young
Staff Reporter

Until the mid-1970s Myeongdong was synonymous with "street of culture", like the current Daehangno, in which artists and actors used to hang around.

But the district has now become one of Seoul's main shopping districts featuring mid-to high-priced retail stores and international brand outlets. It is even the center of major financial services.

To restore the old reputation, a handful of artists have made efforts to turn the district into the cultural epicenter again.

The Myeongdong Art Center opened its doors on May 15 with the successful donation campaigns of many celebrities and art lovers.

Prominent actors such as An Seong-gi and Jo Jae-hyeon and comedian Lee Yeong-ja gave donations. Donators will have their names put on seats. According to the center, 272 out of 410 seats have already been taken.

The center, which was remodeled from the old Funky House, is now equipped with 410 seats located on the third to fifth floors in the UN...| More

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New play to be staged starring actor Ko Soo

2008/05/12 | Source | Permalink |

In 2004, a group of the nation's central theater figures pooled their strength and put on 15 carefully prepared works on the stage, one after another, in the span of one year. The response was amazing for a genre that has never been very popular, drawing some 170,000 people and an average 81 percent seat-occupancy rate.

Those people have been at work again since late last year, this time to offer 11 top contemporary picks and to solicit help from well-known television and movie actors and actresses, in hopes that their appearance will further vitalize the drama genre.

The latest project from "Yeongeukyeoljeon 2", as the special production company is called, is "The Return of Mr. Um", a sequel to "At the Marina", which was presented in 2005 and won the Grand Arts Award from Arts Council Korea the same year.

The play, which will begin staging later this month, has been generating a lot of media hype after word got out that Ko Soo, a major television heartthrob who recently finis...| More

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