Bae Soo-bin (배수빈)

2005/10/07 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

The phrase "a good wife and wise mother" is no longer the ideal model for a woman nowadays. In a world where women's' rights are respected and their advancement in society encouraged, the traditional good wife and wise mother model is equivalent to unilateral sacrifice and subordination for an increasing number of women. Then to modern girls and guys, is the traditional model no more desirable?

A new TV drama poses this question to us. A new weekend drama of Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) titled "Will You Marry Me" offers the opportunity to think about what a good wife and wise mother model means in the modern world.

It tells an enjoyable story of ordinary women of marriageable age, their worries, weddings, and marital lives, and describes what the position and meaning of a woman in a family can be.

A 33-year-old Hong Na-young, a vain old maid, is a manager of a wedding promotion agency. Being almost mid-thirty, she often gets stressed because others pressure her to get...

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2005/04/12 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Members of the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Club will visit KBS's Drama Production Center in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province on the afternoon of Apr. 12. The foreign correspondents' visit to the KBS's drama production center has been arranged to allow them to cover a Korean television drama whose genre has attracted the attention of many foreigners as the source of "hallyu" (Korean wave).

The visitors consist of a total of 23 journalists from 18 foreign media companies such as Reuters, Newsweek, and CNN.

They will have lunch with the production staff and actors and actresses of the KBS's drama "Emperor of the Sea", as well as interview them and collect data on the drama.

They will also take a tour of the drama production center in Suwon, accompanied by production staff members, including director Kang Il-soo, and actors and actresses such as Choi Soo-jong, Soo-ae, Kim Heung-soo, and Bae Soo-bin....

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