'Green' spearheads Korean animations 2011/06/09, Source,
Directors Ahn Jae-hoon and Han Hye-jin-I bring a hand-drawn 2D animation, "Green Days: Dinosaur and I". The film opens in theaters on June 23 after touring film festivals. / Courtesy of A1 Entertainment
By Lee Hyo-won
Pushing on for 11 years with the painstakingly old school method of using hand-rendered drawings - 100,000-plus sheets by just 14 artists - is striking to say the least, especially in this age where everything is 3D,...More
'Don Quixote' eager to enter Broadway 2011/06/06, Source, Shin Chun-soo, president and CEO of OD Musical Company, speaks during an interview with The Korea Times. / Korea Times photo by Shim Hyun-chul
This is the first in a series of interviews of heads of Korea's top theatrical companies. - ED.
By Kwon Mee-yoo
"Jekyll and Hyde" is one of the most popular musicals in Korea, drawing more than 620,000 people as of May. Don Quixote of the musical "Man of La Mancha" is one of the most sought-after roles among male musical actors. The musical "Grease" has been a nest for aspiring actors, nurturing top performers such as Oh Man-seok, Um Ki-joon and Kang Ji-hwan. In 2009, a revival of the musical "Dreamgirls" premiered in Korea, with state-of-the-art LED panels depicting the backdrop of the legendary Apollo Theater and also the airport where the Dreamgirls held a press conference,...More
Korean Movies – Petty Romance 2010/12/20, Source,
"Petty Romance", released theatrically December 1 in Korea, has ranked in first place at the Korean box office. It is a funny chick flick that will make you laugh for the entire time.
Chick flicks usually have very similar storylines and that applies to this movie as well. One of typical stories of chick flick is: two characters meet coincidently, they find themselves either very similar or opposites. If the latter, they think of each other as very annoying and start arguing constantly,...More
Oh Eun-soo(Choi Kang-hee) is 31 years old and worked at the same company for seven years. Life starts to get tremendously stifling for her. Her boss criticizes her for being dense and those words undermine her self-esteem, which was low to begin with. The new hire makes her look bad by working hard and showing passion for her job. But she gets worse news when her ex-boyfriend, who always said that marriage was a dead-end street, invites her to his wedding. But the double-whammy comes when her best friend, Jae-in(Jin Jae-young), also announces that she’ll be getting married! Right when she needed a little tender affection, several men enter her lives with amorous undertones.
She has a one-night stand with Tae-oh(Ji Hyun-woo), a younger man who she met at a bar. Kim Young-soo(Lee Sun-gyun), who was introduced to her by her boss, enters her life as another option for love. Then Yoo-joon(Kim Young-jae), a friend she has a platonic relationship with, suddenly proposes marriage to her. Deluged with so many options, she has to wade through the complicated courtship rituals to find the person who she’ll spend the rest of her life with. It’s not easy to choose Mr. Right. Yoon Tae-oh, Nam Yoo-joon, and Kim Young-soo...
As if she is answering a multiple-choice question, she looks quizzically at the names of the three men in her life. But the men have their charms and flaws, which makes it doubly hard to just follow her heart.
Who will Oh Eun-soo choose? What will happen to her friend Jae-in, whose marriage fell apart in months, and Yoo-hee(Moon Jung-hee)’s career as a musical performer?
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