Movie Theme Park Opens in Seoul

• Time Flows... I Just Didn't Want to be Complacent
  2005/02/23 (Source)
  
  by Seung-Jae Lee
  
  Ji-soo, (32), will appear on the big screen for the first time since her debut 13 years ago. The movie is "This Charming Girl", directed by Lee Yoon-ki, scheduled to open on March 10. In the movie, Kim Ji-soo plays Jung-hye, who works at the post office with some painful child,...More

• "Birthday Boy" Wins Award at Japanese Media Festival
  2005/02/23 (Source)
  
  The Korean animated film "Birthday Boy", directed by Park Se-jong, has received the Best Animated Short Film award at the 8th Japanese Media Art Festival. Park's film was also nominated at the U.S. Academy Film Festival.
  
  Co-organized by Japan's Ministry of Culture and the CG-ARTS Association, t,...More

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  Friends, Colleagues Come to Cherish Memory of Lee Eun-joo
  2005/02/23 (Source)
  When Lee Eun-joo, who committed suicide on Feb. 22, was found dead in her apartment, she was weari,...More

 

• The 9th Seoul Human Rights Film Festival is held in May
  2005/02/23 (Source)
  
  The 9th Seoul Human Rights Film Festival collects publicly domestic program display films by March. 4.
  
  With a view to the realization of the freedom of expression, the practice of human rights education, and the excavation of alternative screening for the mankind, this human rights film festiva,...More

• Feature Films From Japanese Colonial Period Return Home
  2005/02/23 (Source)
  
  By Park Chung-a
  Staff Reporter
  
  Four Korean feature films made during the Japanese colonial period have been found in China and returned to the nation, the Korean Film Archive announced Tuesday.
  
  
  Stills from the documentary "Independence News", made right after Korea gained independence fro,...More

• Exports of Culture Contents Increase
  2005/02/23 (Source)
  
  SEOUL (Yonhap) _ South Korea's exports of culture content surged 61.6 percent year-on-year to $371 million last year, a South Korean trade body said.
  
  According to the Korea International Trade Association, three culture products _ television programs, movies and recorded music _ showed notably ,...More

 

• Korean Films Target Global Market
  2005/02/23 (Source)
  
  SEOUL (Yonhap) _ A local film studio announced three movie projects targeting the global market.
  
  The movies are "Smells Like Butter" intended for the general North American audience, and "Love Talk" and "Love House", both targeting fans of art-house flicks around the world, said LJ Film Co. Tue,...More

• Top actress commits suicide
  2005/02/23 (Source)
  
  Lee Eun-joo, a top actress well known for her supporting role in the Korean blockbuster film "Taegukgi" died yesterday, in what apparently was a suicide.
  
  Lee, 25, was found hanging by a necktie in the walk-in closet of her bedroom at around 1:10 p.m. by her brother, according to police. She liv,...More

• Hollywood's Sandra Oh to Star in Korean Production
  2005/02/22 (Source)
  
  Korean production company LJ Film said shooting for the film "Smells Like Butter", starring 34-year-old ethnic Korean Hollywood actress Sandra Oh, will begin in May.
  
  The film is a romantic comedy about a professionally successful Korean American woman somewhat past marriageable age who comes ba,...More

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