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• Art and Commerce of Korean Films
  2004/10/24 (Source)
  
  Film Industry Finds Success at Both Local Box Office and Int'l Festivals
  
  By Joon Soh
  Staff Reporter
  
  More than any other film, there were two that defined the success enjoyed by the local film industry this year. One showed the growing commercial strength of homegrown films, while the other,...More

• Local Features to Screen With English Subtitles
  2004/10/24 (Source)
  By Joon Soh
  Staff Reporter
  
  If you want to get a free crash course in contemporary Korean cinema, check out the Korea Film Archive all next week.
  
  Twelve critically acclaimed feature films from the past five years, along with 13 short films, will be shown for five days beginning Nov. 1 at th,...More

• Untold Scandal; excellent accounts from the U.S. presses
  2004/10/23 (Source)
  
  After 'Scandal' starring Bae Yong-joon is released with a title, called , in the United States, the movie is hearing excellent accounts from the presses in the United States such as The New York Times and The New York Daily News that it is an excellent film described the original nature of man wel,...More

 

• Film festival season: Beyond Busan
  2004/10/23 (Source)
  
  October 23, 2004 ㅡ Movie festivals must go on. Though the country's largest annual film event, in Busan, closed earlier this month, Korea still has an abundance of other small, colorful festivals. From the Seoul Green Film Festival and CJ Asian Independent Film Festival, both debuting this ,...More

• [Local and Foreign Films With English Subtitles]
  2004/10/22 (Source)
  
  ■ First Seoul Green Film Festival
  Through Oct. 26
  Three Venues in Seoul
  A film festival presenting short and feature-length works dealing with environmental issues will be held at three venues in downtown Seoul _ Star Six Theater, Cinecube Theater and Seoul History Museum _ through Oct.,...More

• New wave
  2004/10/21 (Source)
  From The Economist print edition
  
  Young, accomplished and original
  
  EVERY ten or so years, a new country seems to take the lead in ground-breaking cinema. After the second world war, Italian neo-realists had the field; in the 1960s it was the French new wave. More recently, in the 1990s, China d,...More

 

• 'S Diary' takes a comic shot at romance
  2004/10/21 (Source)
  
  There is a perception, or prejudice, that women are more likely to ask the question ("Do you love me?") almost on a daily, if not hourly, basis, and get relieved whenever they get the right answer ("Sure, I do, honey").
  There is also a perception, perhaps closer to truth, that many bored men res,...More

• Actress wins support for marijuana challenge
  2004/10/21 (Source)
  
  Actress Kim Bu-seon is fighting an uphill battle to get the ban on marijuana lifted but she appears to be getting a glimmering of support.
  Jeon In-kwon, a famous rock singer, told a concert audience which included the actress, this week that any entertainers who disagreed with Kim's argument are,...More

• Director refuses to get serious
  2004/10/20 (Source)
  October 20, 2004 ㅡ When movie director Kim Sang-jin was asked why his movies always sell millions of tickets, his answer was, "Because I make them well".
  He won't take the bait when invited to comment on reviews that say his newest comic horror movie, "Guishini Sanda", or "Ghost House", is ,...More

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