'Lady Vengeance' Bags Korea's Top Movie Honors

• Director Kim Wins Italian Film Award
  2005/11/29 (Source)
  Director Kim Ki-duk has won the Vittorio de Sica Film Award in Italy.
  
  The chairman of the award's screening committee on Monday called Kim the "best filmmaker representing the Far East", noting the critical acclaim he has received in Asia and Europe.
  
  The awards were presented to 17 figures in ,...More

• Actor Won Reports for Military Service
  2005/11/29 (Source)
  "Korean Wave" star Won Bin on Tuesday reported for duty at a reserve army unit in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province.
  
  Four hundred of his fans, including 100 from Japan and dozens others from Hong Kong and Taiwan, waited for him at the main gate of the unit to wish him well.
  
  Fan placards had messages,...More

• Festival to Feature Films by O'seas Koreans
  2005/11/29 (Source)
  The first Korean Network Film Festival, which will feature works by ethnic Koreans overseas, will open Friday for a two-day run in Seoul.
  
  The 12 films from six nations slated for screening include "That's How We Have Lived", the story of a former sex slave for the Japanese imperial army.
  
  Bae Y,...More

 

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  Won Bin Dons Fatigues for Mandatory Role
  2005/11/29 (Source)
  Korean superstar actor Won Bin greets fans before reporting for duty with the 102nd Reserves in Chun,...More

• Gangsters Reunited for 'My Boss, My Hero'
  2005/11/29 (Source)
  By Kim Tae-jong
  Staff Reporter
  
  It has been almost four years since an uneducated grown-up gangster went to high school in the 2001 hit comedy "My Boss, My Hero". Now the hero is back at high school again, this time as a student teacher for the sequel.
  
  "I really wanted to star in this film. I ,...More

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  Art exhibition boosting Korean Wave
  2005/11/29 (Source)
  The Korean Wave, the Asian craze for Korean pop culture, seems unwavering. Korean sculptor Jeong Jin,...More

 

• Celebrity trainee
  2005/11/29 (Source)
  Celebrity trainee: Actor Won Bin, who starred in the 2003 mega hit film "TaeGukGi" and the 2000 TV soap "Autumn in My Heart", delivers words of appreciation to his fans before his entry into a training camp in Chunchon, Kangwon Province for compulsory military duty, Tuesday. Some 400 local and inter,...More

• Kim Yoon-jin Makes Her Presence Felt in Hollywood
  2005/11/28 (Source)
  Actress Kim Yoon-jin of the ABC's hit drama, "Lost", had an interview with Korean reportes on November 22 following the recent premiere of her hot new movie in Seoul. Kim stars as a mother of a son who is a victim of school violence in a thriller entitled, "Diary of June".
  
  It has been over a year,...More

• Kang Ta to hold first fan meeting in three years
  2005/11/28 (Source)
  Singer Kang Ta will hold a fan meeting for the first time in three years on Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. at the Weight-lifting Stadium of the Olympic Park in Seoul for some 4,000 fans.
  
  Kang's agency, SM Entertainment, reported Nov. 28 that it will organize the singer's third meeting with members of his fan c,...More

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