Kim Chang-rae (김창래)

'Makeover' Fun ("Go Go Sister"), Quick Ride to Past

Source | 2007/01/04 | Permalink |

By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter

Ko So-young, left, stars, in "Project Makeover" ("Go Go Sister"), a film about a journey to the past to correct a love choice.
Time travel in movies has been done. We have watched so many of these films now, including the Hollywood adventure "Back to the Future" and its sequels and the local melodrama "My Mother, the Mermaid", that the idea has lost its freshness.

But it's obviously still a tempting offer.

Directed by Kim Chang-rae, the new romantic comedy "Project Makeover" ("Go Go Sister") (Oniga Kanda) tempts the audience with an interesting hypothetical: Would your life be better if you could change your first love?

The film revolves around a 30-year-old woman who goes back to 1994, when she was a high school student.

Na Jung-ju (played by Ko So-young) blames her misery on her failed first love, a man who left her and became a famous singer.

One day, she meets her high school friend Oh Tae-hun (Lee Beom-soo), who had a big crush on...| More

Ko So-young looks for image change

Source | 2006/12/21 | Permalink |

Ko So-young has spent a long time building up her luxurious image. Since her debut in the early 1990s, she has been identified as a beautiful actress with a radiant smile and a classy posture. No wonder she recently won a lucrative advertising contract for an upscale apartment complex advertisement.

Ko is now betting that she can overhaul her image, at least on the silver screen anyway. In "Eonniga ganda (Project Makeover)" ("Go Go Sister"), directed by Kim Chang-rae, she plays an average Korean girl in her 30s who wants to redesign her complicated life.

The challenge: Ko is far from an average woman by any account. Her overall image does not have any "average" quality. But the character she plays in the film is, well, average.

Na Jeong-ju, played by Ko, is an assistant designer who believes her first love destroyed her entire life. Back in 1994 - at the tender age of 18 - Jeong-ju fell in love with Cho Ha-nui (Kim Jung-min), a high school kid who wanted to become a top singer...| More