Kim Jung-min (김정민)

Ko So-young looks for image change

2006/12/21 | Source | 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

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Stars Shine at Seoul Collection

2006/04/30 | Source | Permalink |

By Bae Keun-min
Staff Reporter

The Seoul Collection on Sunday ended its 11-day agenda. Designers and brands showcased their lines of clothing, which they hope will mesmerize people this fall and winter.

Artistic garments dazzled in 62 shows at SETEC in southern Seoul, forecasting romantic retro will continue to rein strong yet another season.

In female attire, as seen in the world's top collections in Paris, New York and Milan over a month ago, designers took motifs from various eras, including the Victorian era, the 1950s and the 1980s, to create glamorous retro looks on the catwalks with a seasoning of minimalism.

Reinterpretation of retro was diversified, ranging from the dominant mannish and chic streamlined looks to girly puffed-up sleeves and fitted legging trousers.

Achromatic colors such as black, white and gray continued to rule the fashion frenzy since the Spring/Summer Collection last November, while gold, bright red, purple and others were applied for highli...| More

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Classic Korean film enters the DVD era

2005/03/05 | Source | Permalink |

March 05, 2005 ㅡ Cineastes the world over have been increasingly grateful to the DVD, which has done more to restore historically important films, to make them look (and sound) better and to make them widely available than any technological change in recent memory.
Lately, vintage Korean films have begun to receive the DVD treatment. And non-Korean-speakers are among the prime beneficiaries.
On Jan. 4, the state-funded Korean Film Archive released DVDs of two classic Korean films ― 1946's "Jayu Manse" (Viva Freedom) and 1955's "Yangsando" (Yangsan Province) ― subtitled in English for the first time. What's more, the special features on both of these DVD releases, such as interviews and biographical information, also have English subtitles, which is rarely the case with Korean DVDs.
Even before the film archive, a division of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, began these releases, a company called Bitwin had begun resurrecting vintage Korean cinema on its own....| More

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