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  [HanCinema Korea's Diary] Classical Korean Cinema at KOFA: Im Kwon-taek's "Gilsodeum"
  2012/03/17, Source,
  Every month at Korean Film Archive in Seoul Darcy Paquet, a respected Korean film critic and journalist, will be presenting a number of classic Korean films. The first of these was held last weekend and Im Kwon-taek's hidden masterpiece "Gilsodeum" (1985) was screened. After which, Darcy shared some facts on the piece as well as his thoughts on the film, the director and the actors involved. Hancinema was there for the screening and recorded the Q & A session (English and Korean),...More

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  Um Aing-ran to stay with husband despite his relationship with another woman
  2011/12/20, Source,
  Actress Um Aing-ran spoke candidly in a television show aired Dec. 20 about the controversy that followed the release of her husband Shin Seong-il's shocking autobiography on Dec. 5. "I've always been a family-oriented person who wanted to keep the peace. However, for the first time in my 47 years of marriage, I am going through a real tumultuous time", Eum said as she made her first official comments on the autobiography while appearing on "Bae Gi-wan, Choi Young-ah and Jo Hyeong-gi's Good Morning".,...More

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  Shin Seong-il reveals love affair with Kim Young-ae
  2011/12/06, Source,
  In a new biography, actor Shin Seong-il revealed for the first time his love affair and pregnancy with his deceased ex-lover, newscaster and actress Kim  Young-ae. At a press conference for his new book "Youth is Barefoot Running" on Dec. 5, the veteran actor spoke of his past extra-martial affair with actress Kim whilst he was still married to his wife, actress Eum Aeng-ran,...More

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  Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today at the MoMA
  2011/09/16, Source,
  Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today will start on Sept. 22 and last through Oct. 2. This year, we are pleased to welcome back Lim Soon-rye, South Korea's most highly regarded female filmmaker, to The Korea Society for the Opening Night's screening of "Rolling Home with a Bull" (2010), which follows a young man's forlorn life as a failed poet and unemployed bachelor who winds up taking an unexpected journey throughout the country with his father's cvherished bull and making a series of peculiar run-ins. This year's Yeonghwa series will also have a special focus on director Jeon Kyu-hwan, whose Town Trilogy films--"Mozart Town" (2008), "Animal Town" (2009) and "Dance Town" (2010)-examines various human lives that exist in Seoul's urban landscape, including those of an African laborer, a Russian exchange student, a reformed pedophile, a North Korean defector, and a dejected print-shop owner. Jeon's Town Trilogy critiques the "town" of Seoul from a sociological auteur's perspective,...More