The 10 Young Leaders of Korean Cinema

• Film star comes back to drama stage
  2005/10/20 (Source)
  Seol Kyeong-gu, a Korean film star with outstanding talent, will be back where he started as he prepares to land a major role in a Daehangno drama for the first time in nine years.
  
  Under the directorship of his college professor Choi Hyung-in, Seol, who is well known through his high-profile film,...More

• Local Films With English Subtitles
  2005/10/20 (Source)
  Cine-Cafe Evenings
  
  At 6:30 p.m. on Friday
  
  Korea Foundation Cultural Center
  
  This charity movie session will screen "Public Enemy 2", a story about the confrontation between a tough prosecutor and a criminal who used to be classmates. The session is held once a month at the venue, near City H,...More

• Screen quota defenders rally for Unesco draft
  2005/10/19 (Source)
  October 20, 2005 ㅡ The long-running dispute over Korea's screen quota system is moving onto new ground: the quota's supporters are rallying around the final draft of a Unesco convention that would exclude the cultural industries in all of the organization's member states from free trade agree,...More

 

• 'Antarctic Journal' Named Top Film at Sitges
  2005/10/19 (Source)
  The movie "Antarctic Journal" has won the best film award in the Orient Express-Casa Asia section of the 38th Sitges International Film Festival in Catalonia, Spain.
  
  Sitges is one of the three top global festivals for fantasy films along with the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Films,...More

• Lee Young-ae wins best actress at Sitges film festival
  2005/10/19 (Source)
  Actress Lee Young-ae, who starred in the movie "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance" (directed by Park Chan-wook), won the Best Actress award at the Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia 2005, which ended Oct. 18 in Spain.
  
  The Sitges festival, which is in its 38th year, is one of the three lead,...More

• Korean Films Enjoying Favorable Acclaim Abroad
  2005/10/19 (Source)
  In other news today -- Korean movies are gaining wider recognition abroad from both critics and audiences.
  Kim Hyung-eun reports on how Korean directors and actors are being received in Europe.
  
  Korean director Kim Ki-duk's "The Bow", will be screened across Italy starting Friday. This, after Kim,...More

 

• Film 'Antarctic Journal' Wins Award in Spain
  2005/10/19 (Source)
  SEOUL (Yonhap) _ South Korean movie "Antarctic Journal" won the best Asian film award at this year's Sitges International Film Festival of Catalonia in Spain, film producers in Seoul said Wednesday.
  
  The movie, which was written and directed by Lim Pil-seong, captures the tale of the mysterious de,...More

• Actor's politics wins him few fans
  2005/10/18 (Source)
  Fans of the Korean television drama actor Song Il-gook, 34, are aghast at his recent announcement that he would support his mother's political work.
  By doing so, Mr. Song is not only breaking an unwritten rule that entertainers and politicians should not mix, but he is doing so on the behalf of a r,...More

• Yonsama Film Sets Japanese Box Office Record
  2005/10/18 (Source)
  The film, "April Snow", featuring local star Bae Yong-joon, has earned more than two-billion yen as of Sunday, the best-ever box office total for a Korean film released in Japan.
  
  According to the Nikkan Sports Daily, the film broke the previous two-billion yen record set by the movie, "Windstruck,...More

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