Kim Jeong-hyeon (김정현)

3 New Weekend Dramas to Air

Source | 2008/01/29 | Permalink |

By Kwon Mee-yoo
Staff Reporter

All three major television networks will start new weekend dramas for the entire family in February.

KBS will air "Mom's Dead Upset", which deals with four-generations living together and the various incidents resulting from generation gaps. MBC will air "A Beauty Unmatched, Park Jeong-geum", about a divorced single mom, while SBS will air "I Am Happy", about a happily married couple.

The first episode of "Mom's Dead Upset" will air at 7:55 p.m., Feb. 2. Written by Kim Su-hyun, the hit maker who wrote for dramas such as "My Man's Woman" (SBS, 2007), "Love and Ambition" (SBS, 2006) and "Trap of Youth" (SBS, 1999), the drama's expectations are high.

The drama features powerful actors and actresses. Lee Soon-jae, who currently plays King Yeongjo on MBC's "Yi San", Baek Il-seob, Kim Hye-ja and Kang Boo-ja are the grandfather, father, grandmother and mother of the family respectively while Sin Eun-kyeong, Kim Jeong-hyeon and Lee Yoo-ri will play t...| More

Seoul's film festival tours further afield

Source | 2006/06/22 | Permalink |

The Seoul Independent Film Festival continues to stretch its geographical boundaries. The organizers are touring last year's prize-winning works and others prepared especially for the tour, having started from Daegu in May. From June 27 to 29, the event will feature at the Haksan Culture Center in Incheon, showing two features and five animated short films.
The festival's annual tour started in 2004 "as a way to reach audiences who could not be in Seoul for our actual festival", said Kim Jeong-hyeon, the program coordinator for the festival. "As the festival shows independent films that are hard to find through other media, we felt that it was important for us to showcase the films in other regions besides the capital", she added.
This year, the tour will visit 12 cities in Korea, including Seoul, Gangneung, Samcheok, Daejeon and Jeju. The committee plans to expand the scale again next year, to include around 20 cities in their program.
Both the feature films won prizes during the 2...| More