Lee Dae-yeong (이대영)

For actress, fiction imitates real life

Source | 2006/12/25 | Permalink |

Choi Jin-sil takes role that is close to home

There is a woman who is trying her best to live happily with a man she knows does not love her. Then there is another woman who is trying her best to live happily with a man she knows she can no longer love.
It seems likely both women would be depressed, but add another detail and things become clearer ― the second woman believes having a secret affair with the first's husband is the best way for everybody to be happy; that way she doesn't have to get a divorce, she gets a lover and he doesn't need to divorce his wife to be with her.
This tale is currently just one plot for the upcoming MBC-TV drama series "Bad Woman, Good Woman", which airs its first episode in the New Year. But one actress involved in the project might consider the story line a bit too close to her own personal life. Choi Jin-sil, 38, is coming back to prime-time television as the "Good Woman" who has to put up with an unfaithful husband, his daughter from his ...| More

Film star comes back to drama stage

Source | 2005/10/20 | Permalink |

Seol Kyeong-gu, a Korean film star with outstanding talent, will be back where he started as he prepares to land a major role in a Daehangno drama for the first time in nine years.

Under the directorship of his college professor Choi Hyung-in, Seol, who is well known through his high-profile films such as "Peppermint Candy" (2000) and "Oasis" (2002), will play Andrew Makepeace in A.R. Gurney's two-person drama "Love Letters", which will be staged at Hanyang Repertory Theater in Daehangno from tomorrow through the end of the year.

"What attracts me to drama is that it is always performed live in front of the audience", Sul told reporters Tuesday. "I feel a bit awkward acting on the stage, but still, acting is acting. Not much will be different".

Starting his professional acting career as a theater actor in 1993, Sul made his big-screen debut with a small movie role in the 1996 movie "A Petal". He jumpstarted his career with "Peppermint Candy" four years later, which brought him...| More