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Actress Jeon Do-Yeon to Be on CNN's Talk Asia

2007/10/14 | Source | Permalink |

South Korean actress Jeon Do-Yeon, winner of 2007 Cannes Film Festival's best actress prize, will appear on CNN on Oct. 13, 2007, according to CNN. The 35-year-old actress will be interviewed by CNN's Anjali Rao on CNN's Talk Asia program. The follwing are the airtimes and the full-text of the interview story.

Airtimes:

Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Singapore & Taipei
Saturday, Oct 13 at 0730 & 2100

Bangkok & Jakarta
Saturday, Oct 13 at 0630 & 2000

CNN must be credited when using any quotes from this interview

Note: This is a rush transcript. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

R: Anjali Rao

J: Jeon Do-Yeon

R: Let's start with the best actress prize which you won this year at the Cannes Film Festival. What's it like being the first Korean ever to win such a prestigious award?

J: First of all, I wasn't really able to think about the significance of myself being the first Korean or the first Asian to win such a significant prize. How...| More

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A young actress becomes a mature gisaeng

2007/06/16 | Source | Permalink |

Hwang Jin-i, a woman of erotic style and flamboyant intelligence, was excellent at writing poems and drawing and she ridiculed the patriarchal society in which she lived.
Any actress would want to play Hwang Jin-I -- the famous gisaeng is one of the most colorful characters in Korean history, along with Chang Hee-bin and Seong Chun-hyang.
Many movies, dramas and novels have dealt with the life of Hwang Jin-i. Directors have sought out only the most beautiful actresses to play the role.
Do Geum-bong, an actress famed for her sensual body, was the first to play the gisaeng in modern film, starring in "Hwang Jin-i - Movie - 1957" in 1957.
After that, Kang Sook-hee starred in "The Life of Hwang Jin-i (1961)", and Kim Ji-mi followed her in "Hwang Jin-i's First Love (1969)". Kim Ji-mi had a Westernized rather than a traditional Korean appearance.
Chang Mi-hee in "Hwang Jin-i (1986)", directed by Bae Chang-ho, was the most outstanding Hwang Jin-i character, since she was not portraye...| More

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Song Hye-kyo, "Hwangjini only held one man in her heart".

2007/06/01 | Source | Permalink |

Song Hye-kyo's Hwangjini was majestic. During a time where social rank determined all, she ridiculed society amidst falling from the top to lowest of classes, delightfully stripped off the falsehood of intellect, and held only one man in her heart.

The movie 'Hwangjin-y - Movie - 2007' meets audiences on the 6th. With a total production budget of 10 billion KRW, Director Jang Yoon-yeon of the movies 'The Contact' and 'Tell Me Something' holding the megaphone, and renown staff within the film industry, and especially Song Hye-kyo who plays the role of 'Hwangjini' provide plenty of reason to look forward to the opening.

Despite the frequent questioning of the similarities in character with the drama version, 'Hwangjin-y' starring Ha Ji-Won, she most likely felt that she was being asked less of them once the movie was premiered. Seeing the movie clearly shows the differences from the drama series.

"Hwangjiny's character is one I always wanted to take a challenge at, but I worry t...| More

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Hwangjin-y - Movie - 2007 screens in North Korea

2007/06/01 | Source | Permalink |

The big-budget period drama "Hwangjin-y - Movie - 2007" has received a special screening in North Korea ahead of its local release.

The film, which is based on the life of Korea's most famous gisaeng (the Korean equivalent to the Japanese "geisha"), is adapted from a famous novel by North Korean author Hong Seok-jung.

As the novel references several famous sites in what is now North Korea, the filmmakers made a special effort to shoot the film's final segment at the Geumgang ("Diamond") Mountain resort area in the North. The Geumgang complex is the one part of North Korea that is freely open to tourists from the South, following its development as a tourist complex in 2000. "Hwangjin-y - Movie - 2007" is the second Korean film to shoot in the complex, following comedy "A Bold Family" ("Super Family") in 2005.

The screening was held in the Geumgang complex for South Korean tourists and employees of the Hyundai Asan company that operates the tours. A total of 6000 people ...| More

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wo0oo..c0ngrats SHK!:) mharacute 2007-06-05 18:06:52

A Tribute to Jeon Do-yeon

2007/05/31 | Source | Permalink |

Hearty congratulations to Korea's most ambitious and talented actress

Kyu Hyun Kim (qhyunkim)

On May 27, Jeon Do-yeon won the Best Actress prize at the Cannes Film Festival, for her searing portrait of a spiritually devastated woman in Lee Chang-dong's "Secret Sunshine". I strongly feel that, even more than "Old Boy" winning the Grand Prix in 2004, which I sort of predicted her win is the most deserved among all prizes ever garnered by a Korean film or Korean filmmaker in the high-profile film festivals.

(Okay, okay, I didn't really predict it. What I said exactly was that I would eat cheese and drink wine instead of soybean paste and soju for a year if "Old Boy" won the Grand Prix, by which I really meant the Palm d'Or, and I have at least kept the promise on the wine part, even though the latter prize was claimed by "Fahrenheit 911".)

Coming from a TV drama background, and in the early years of her career sometimes made fun of because of her slightly nasal, little-girl v...| More

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