Actress Park Sol-mi's Piano Music CD to Be Released in Japan

• Andre Kim's collection lights up Hawaiian night
  2006/02/17 (Source)
  HONOLULU, Hawaii - Korea's veteran designer Andre Kim lit up the Hawaiian night as more than one thousand fashion fans flocked here Wednesday to watch top Korean movie stars and models parade down the catwalk in Kim's lavish costumes.
  
  The show held in the Hilton Hotel Coral Ballroom was jointly o,...More

• Will 'King and the Clown' be No. 1 hit?
  2006/02/17 (Source)
  All eyes in Korea's film industry are now trained on whether "The King and the Clown" (Wang-ui namja) will set a new record as the country's biggest box office hit after breaking the 10 million viewer mark last weekend.
  
  It is the third movie produced in Korea to reach the 10-million milestone at ,...More

• Making it in the big time: K-pop wants U.S. air play
  2006/02/16 (Source)
  It took a lot of sweat and hard cash to turn teenage K-pop singers like BoA and Rain into Asian superstars. But years after their debuts in Asia, everyone in the music industry knows what the next big step for Korean musicians must be. What will it take for them to break into the American music mark,...More

 

• 76% of Adults Oppose Screen Quota Cut
  2006/02/16 (Source)
  Three quarters of the adult population oppose the planned cut in the domestic screen quota.
  
  In a poll on one-thousand adults commissioned by the National Assembly's Culture and Tourism Committee released Thursday, 68 percent said a cut in or scrapping of the system will hurt the country's film in,...More

• Actor Lee Named Envoy for French Culture
  2006/02/16 (Source)
  Lee Byeong-heon is the French Embassy in Seoul's first honorary ambassador to promote French culture.
  
  The embassy on Thursday said the appointment marks the 120th year of bilateral ties with South Korea, citing Lee's degree in French literature from Hanyang University in Seoul.
  
  In a ceremony a,...More

• KBS Drama "Emperor of the Sea" to Air in India
  2006/02/16 (Source)
  The KBS TV drama "Emperor of the Sea" starring Choi Soo-jong and Song Il-gook will air in India.
  
  An official from KBS said on Feb. 15, "Starting from late March, 'Emperor of the Sea' will air on Channel 1 (DD-1) of Doordarshan TV, India's only terrestrial network, a first for a South Korean drama,...More

 

• Singer Jang Woo-hyeok Outshines Rain in China
  2006/02/16 (Source)
  Singer Jang Woo-hyeok, a former member of the group H.O.T, has achieved the highest popularity among South Korean singers in China, outstripping even singer "Rain", known as the "Asian star".
  
  In a poll conducted by China's largest portal site, sina.com, Jang topped the chart of South Korean singe,...More

• TV Heartthrob Hyeon Bin Makes Move to the Big Screen
  2006/02/16 (Source)
  The actor Hyeon Bin is attempting to translate his good looks to the big screen with his debut film "A Millionaire's First Love". Hyun's newfound stellar popularity is reflected in a recent survey by a website that found he was the man women respondents most wanted to have a love affair with, if onl,...More

• Heavy Scandal
  2006/02/16 (Source)
  by Mun-Myung Huh
  
  The movie "Forbidden Quest" seems to want to express satire and the art of deviation, but by putting forth tragic love, it ends up being a story about neither. This movie is the directing debut of screenwriter Kim Dae-woo, who wrote the highest grossing historic movie "Untold Sca,...More

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