Kwon Hyeok-jae (권혁재)

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  Indie album hopes to set the record straight
  2012/04/10, Source,
  Songs spell out artists' everyday lives for fans Lee Bong-su, Lee Sung-bae and Kim Min-gyu, heads of three indie music labels in Seoul, brought 27 local bands together to create the "Seoul Seoul Seoul" compilation album. By Kwon Hyeok-jae For 27 local indie bands, life in Seoul isn't too hard to define. It's what they sing about: from music parties in Itaewon to pretty ladies walking the streets of Hongdae. But some leaders of the genre came to realize recently that music fans might not know what the indie scene here is really about, and so have set out on a project to set the record straight, with music, of course,...More

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  'Punch' pushes actor into next phase of his career
  2011/10/20, Source,
  Yoo Ah-in plays a timid young man struggling to come to terms with a family secret in "Punch". By Kwon Hyeok-jae The new film "Punch" does not have an exciting story line, a swirling climax nor a vengeful villain at its center. But it does have the talents of an engaging young actor named Yoo Ah-in, who appears to have lost a bit of his boyish arrogance and is entering a new, more serious phase of his career,...More

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  Korean films at NYAFF 2011 back with a 'Vengeance'
  2011/09/19, Source,
  "Korean films are catching Hollywood's attention", declared Goran Topalovic, "because they are best known for their raw humanity". Topalovic should know. He is a co-founder of the annual New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), one of the city's most singular film festivals focusing on cutting-edge films from Korea, China, and Japan. And this year, with the support of the Korean Cultural Service of New York, the festival introduced an unprecedented number of Korean thrillers, 11 in total, under the synoptic banner, 'Sea of Revenge'.,...More

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  The next K-pop sensation... could be you
  2011/09/13, Source,
  Public ravenous for stars from their midst as reality TV shows saturate market Kim Yong-bum, chief producer of "Superstar K3", said the popularity of eliminator TV shows here is a welcome development, but one that makes his job more pressurized. By Kwon Hyeok-jae After the third episode of Mnet's reality show "Superstar K3" aired on Aug. 26, online portals were brimming with postings trying to guess the secret of one of its contestants, American Chris Golightly. During the preliminary rounds of the eliminator show, which promises to produce Korea's next singing star, clips from Golightly's past were shown from his time as a contestant on another show, "American Idol",...More