Rules of Dating (2005) - 연애의 목적 (Yeon-ae-eui Mok-jeok)

Music director of 'The Host' Lee Byeong-Woo makes his first online game soundtrack

2008/02/22 | Source | Permalink |

Famous Korean guitarist and movie music director Lee Byeong-Woo will make his first online game music.

Lee will make the background music for Dragonika, an online game published by NCSoft (CEO: Kim, Jin-Taek) and developed by Barunson Interactive (CEO: Lee, Seung-Gu and Lee, Yeon-Ju).

Lee is one of Korea's most sought-after musicians. He has made music for movies like "The Host", "Rules of Dating", and "A Tale of Two Sisters". He was also the man behind the dual album One Day 1/2, which has been recognized for its significant contribution to Korean popular music history.

He has also staged performances with the Eurasian Philharmonic Orchestra, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, Seoul City Philharmonic and other major Korean orchestras.

"I love games and game music is the genre I have not delved into yet, so I have been wanting to this for a long time", said Lee. "'Dragonika' is a fantasy game about dragons and humans and I did my best in using my music to bring the lyrical legen...| More

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It's Song Kang-ho's 'Show' All the Way

2008/01/29 | Source | Permalink |

'The Show Must Go On' a vehicle for Korean star's amazing talent

Kyu Hyun Kim (qhyunkim)

Kang In-gu (Song Kang-ho, "The Host", "The Secret Sunshine") is a middle-rank boss of a criminal gang. Recently, he is suffering from chronic fatigue, taken to falling asleep while caught in a traffic stop. His business is not exactly booming. His attractive wife Mi-ryung (Park Ji-yeong) has had it with his broken promise to open a fruits and vegetables shop after washing his hands from racketeering and extortion business. His equally attractive teenage daughter Hee-soon (Kim So-eun, "Someone behind Me") wishes he were dead. His supposed colleague Sang-jin (Yoon Je-moon, "The Host", again typecast as a mean thug) is looking for a chance to stick a knife in his gut, both figuratively and literally. The only sympathetic figure around him appears to be his childhood buddy Hyung-jin (Oh Dal-soo, "Old Boy") who now works for a rival gang.

"The Show Must Go On" comes at the end of the cycle of i...| More

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Kim Seon-ah Officially Casted In Movie "Girl Scouts"

2007/05/01 | Source | Permalink |

Kim Seon-ah, who gained top star status after the success of the drama "My Lovely Sam Soon", has confirmed to appear in the movie "Girl Scouts" (by director Kim Sang Man).

After "My Lovely Sam Soon" ("My Name is Kim Sam-soon"), Kim Seon-ah said that she had agreed to appear in "Thursday's Child" last May. But even after the filming started last September, due to the change of directors and production problems, her agency had cancelled her contract with the movie. "Thursday's Child" is directed by director Won Sin-yeon of the movie "A Bloody Aria", and the movie was changed to "Seven Days" with a change in the theme. This movie had also casted Kim Yoon-jin and Kim Mi-sook.

Meanwhile, "Girl Scouts" is a movie with a comic touch and is a criminal drama. When the head of a credit union disappears with millions of dollars of the credit union's money, four women create a team called "Bong Chon Girl Scouts Troop #3" to recover the stolen money and chaos ensues.

This movie was based o...| More

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KIM Hye-soo and PARK Hae-il cast in Modern Boy

2007/04/05 | Source | Permalink |

Top stars KIM Hye-soo ("Tazza: The High Rollers" - ("The War of Flower")) and PARK Hae-il ("Rules of Dating") have recently been cast in an ambitious new film set in 1930s Korea.

"Modern Boy" will examine the social phenomenon of the "modern boy" and "modern girl" – people who dressed and acted in ways that radically broke from traditional Korean culture – in colonial-era Korea.

PARK plays a man who returns from studying in Tokyo and gains a reputation as Korea's foremost "modern boy", while KIM plays a mysterious woman who is involved in dancing, singing and designing.

The film is being directed by JEONG Ji-woo, the talented director responsible for "Happy End" (1999) and "Blossom Again" ("Close to You") (2005). It is scheduled to start shooting at the end of May, with a release planned for early 2008. It is produced by K&J Entertainment – the production company launched by directors KANG Woo-seok and JANG Jin -- and will be distributed by CJ Entertainment.

KIM and ...| More

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'Show' Shows Life Must Go On

2007/04/05 | Source | Permalink |

By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter

New movie "The Show Must Go On", at a glance, may look like just one of those old-fashioned gangster films that dominated the local cinema a few years ago.

But there are no stylish action scenes, no heroic achievement, no slapstick comedy and no rosy romance in it. The movie rather sheds light on an individual gangster who suffers from "general" problems just like others in his life.

Despite his professional peculiarity, the film's main character shares a lot of things in common with ordinary fathers in this country. The film tells a story of a man who leads a life of burdens and fatigue, which you can easily empathize with.

Directed by Han Jae-rim, the film revolves around Kang In-gu (by Song Kang-ho), who is an ordinary forty-something Korean man, except that he is a second boss of a criminal gang involved in dirty business.

Perhaps in his early 20s, he was a fearless man one might have seen in other gangster films. But now he is often s...| More

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