Bae Jong-ok (배종옥)

2008/03/20 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

It seems that the new keyword for 2008 will become 'women power'.

Female stars who received popularity for effeminate roles are now trying new characters, such as famous politicians, female bodyguards, and female detectives.

Ko Hyeon-jeong will be acting as Korea's first female president in her next drama, SBS "Big Things", set to air in May 2008.

Ko Hyeon-jeong's role of Seo Hye-rim is a passionate lawyer. She quits after taking responsibility for the arrest a political gang's leader, and becomes famous as a civil rights lawyer. She runs for office and is elected as a female president.

Ko Hyeon-jeong also acted as the first female chief of a police squad in the MBC drama "Hit". She is receiving roles that differ from her past image, and that are many "firsts" in the drama industry.

Also, Chae Rim will be coming back to television as a female bodyguard.

The KBS drama "Powerful Opponents" will air April 14, and her character Cha Young-jin is an unstoppable, aggressive ...

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2008/03/12 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Call it ajumma power.
Ajumma is Korean for middle-aged women, and ajumma characters are currently in full control of the screen ― both television and film.
But they are no longer portrayed as aggressive or hot-tempered, for example, as a woman dashing for a vacant seat in the subway or elbowing other ajumma for the last grocery item on sale. They no longer wear loose floral-print pants or sport curly hair.
Their aggressiveness is presented rather as an endearing trait ― as enthusiasm for life and full tolerance of others.
Jung-geum (played by Bae Jong-ok) from MBC TV's "The Unique Park Jung-geum" is one example.
Jung-geum is a 38-year-old detective in charge of investigating violent crimes and a single mom living with a child. Her divorce transformed her into an uncompromising, tough woman.
In one episode, she shouts fearlessly at a knife-wielding gangster, "Stab me if you can. I'm just ashamed that I have to deal with a loser like you". The gangster turns tail and fl...

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2008/01/29 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

By Kwon Mee-yoo
Staff Reporter

All three major television networks will start new weekend dramas for the entire family in February.

KBS will air "Mom's Dead Upset", which deals with four-generations living together and the various incidents resulting from generation gaps. MBC will air "A Beauty Unmatched, Park Jeong-geum", about a divorced single mom, while SBS will air "I Am Happy", about a happily married couple.

The first episode of "Mom's Dead Upset" will air at 7:55 p.m., Feb. 2. Written by Kim Su-hyun, the hit maker who wrote for dramas such as "My Man's Woman" (SBS, 2007), "Love and Ambition" (SBS, 2006) and "Trap of Youth" (SBS, 1999), the drama's expectations are high.

The drama features powerful actors and actresses. Lee Soon-jae, who currently plays King Yeongjo on MBC's "Lee San", Baek Il-seob, Kim Hae-ja and Kang Boo-ja are the grandfather, father, grandmother and mother of the family respectively while Sin Eun-kyeong, Kim Jeong-hyeon and Lee Yoo-ri will play ...

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2007/11/05 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

KBS announced on the 5th that Ha Ji-won who played the role of "Hwangjin-i" in the KBS drama series won the Best Actress Award at the 32nd Annual Golden Chest Prizes.

The Golden Chest International Television Festival hosted by BNT (Bulgarian National Television) is one of Europe's most prestigious international festivals for television dramas and documentaries. Actors are nominated by the Union of the Bulgarian Actors.

In 2005, Bae Jong-ok also received the Best Actress Award through the KBS drama "The House I Lived In"....

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congratulation............ im a big fan of yours and also you deserved it......... hope you to have more success angelica_171439 2008-02-01 05:13:21

2007/07/04 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

'To wives, husbands' affairs are like a car accident ... They are by no means intended. They just happen'.

The latest drama by Kim Su-hyun, 64, one of Korea's top scriptwriters, seemed so realistic that women all across Korea began to suspect their husbands were cheating.
Her recent 24-episode work, "My Man's Woman", starring Kim Hee-ae, Bae Jong-ok and Kim Sang-joong, is about an extramarital love affair.
But in Kim's signature style, the drama was not predictable. "I didn't want this story to have a conventional ending", she said.

According to AGB Nielsen Media Research, the last episode of the drama, on June 19, ranked first in overall viewership that day, attracting 37.6 percent of the people watching TV.
When asked about how she keeps viewers hooked until the last minute, Kim said, "Unlike other scripts with the same theme, I don't drag the stories on".
Normally, she said, a drama starts off with a couple meeting, then falling in love. One or both then have an affair whi...

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