Ahn Sang-hoon (안상훈)

Newlywed Seo Min-jeong to Retire from Acting

Source | 2007/08/27 | 0 comments | Permalink |

Seo Min-jeong, the 28-year-old actress who first rose to stardom in the sitcom "High Kick!", married 29-year-old Korean-American dentist Ahn Sang-hoon in the Grand Ballroom of Asem Tower in Samseong-dong on Saturday.

Former Prime Minister Lee Soo-sung officiated at the wedding and singers Lee Soo-young, Noel and Son Ho-young sang the nuptial songs.

The newlyweds are planning to move to their new home in New York where the groom resides, so Seo will withdraw from public life as an actress for the present. ...| More

Classic horror theme and martial arts collaboration

Source | 2006/11/21 | 0 comments | Permalink |

"Arang" uses a classic theme of the horror genre ― a serial murder.
So-young (Song Yoon-Ah), a female detective who has just returned from a suspension, teams up with Hyun-gi (Lee Dong-wook) for a multiple homicide investigation.


"Arang" 97 minutes Directed by Ahn Sang-hoon Starring Song Yoon-ah, Lee Dong-wook Horror

The two find that all the murder victims had known a girl who went missing 10 years earlier from a seaside village. When So-young visits the village, she hears a bizarre rumor of a female ghost that appears in a salt store in the village.
The murders continue and So-young suffers nightmares.
"Arang" is the debut film by director Ahn Sang-hoon yet it shows the essence of a classic horror flick.
Song's performance as the film's female lead, following her bitter horror debut in "Face", for which she earned bad reviews, has progressed noticeably in the role of the female detective. Lee's film debut is also moderately successful.
The DVD's special features, w...| More

Actor Yoo Ji-tae’s Directed Work Invited to Japanese Film Festival

Source | 2006/06/05 | 0 comments | Permalink |

Yoo Ji-tae will take part in Japan's Short Shorts Film Festival Asia not as an actor but as a director.

His second directed work "What Dream Does a Blind Person Have?" has been invited to the special program section of the film festival, which will run June 7 through 11 in Tokyo. The short film won the Fuji Film Award at the 2006 Busan Asia Short Film Festival in late May.

During his four-day, three-night visit from June 9 to 12, Yoo will give interviews to Japanese media companies and hold a special seminar in which he will talk about his thoughts on films.

Other Korean directors' works, Kim Byeong-jeong's "Please Defend My Earth" and Ahn Sang-hoon's "Passover", will be screened in the competition section of the film festival....| More

Summer for Horror Film Buffs

Source | 2006/05/31 | 0 comments | Permalink |

By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter

While film is an old Western tradition, Koreans have long relied on horror flicks to cool the summer heat. And as the summer season lurks just around the corner, serial killers, freaks and ghosts are out in full force to chill moviegoers.

Compared to ghosts and schizophrenic psychos that predominantly figure in Western horror films such as "The Omen", "Creep" and "Silent Hill", what can local moviegoers expect from the domestic horror films? The following are some of Korean horror films slated for this summer.

"Arang" (on June 28)

This is the first local horror film, which opens the summer season.

As it is based on a Korean folk tale in which a ghost visits a district governor to ask him help her pay off her grudge, the film aims to put Korean touches to maximize fear for local audiences.

Directed by Ahn Sang-hoon and starring Song Yoon-ah and Lee Dong-wook, the film revolves around two detectives who encounter mysterious accidents whil...| More