* First broadcast: TBA (estimated to be June)
Drama "
Road No. 1"
Leading actors
So Ji-sub,
Kim Ha-neul and
Yoon Kye-sang tell of their first impressions!
2010's most highly anticipated drama series is about the turbulent times of the Korean War, "
Road No. 1". Its actors
So Ji-sub,
Kim Ha-neul and
Yoon Kye-sang took it upon themselves to introduce the production and talk about life on set for the eager viewers.
So Ji-sub (Jangwoo) "This is a once in a lifetime opportunity".
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Road No. 1"'s Jangwoo is a character who lives through the Korean War, his emotions of love just as desperate as his fight to survive the war. An empathetic character who finds himself agonizing between friendship with a comrade and a ...
MoreIn 2010, the clock of the Korean pop culture is set for June 1950. TV and movies will be flooded with war stories as this year marks the 60th anniversary of the Korean War. TV stations are raising their stakes in war-themed mega dramas and Chungmuro, the Korean counterpart of Hollywood, is also betting high on block-buster war movies.
Ammunition (casting of top stars) is loaded and the war chest (massive budget) is huge.
The battle between two major networks KBS and MBC first grabs attention. One turns the clock back and remakes
"Comrades", a hit TV series of the 1970s into a modern war drama while the other meets the challenge head-on with a block buster costing 10 billion won in budget. KBS' 20-episode series
"Comrades" is the remake of a weekday TV series of the same title that was aired from 1975 to 1977. Both series are scheduled to start airing in June.
The 2010 version of
"Comrades" centers on the battlefields during the Korean War, focusing on comradeship among soldiers fighting for life under dire circumstances while depicting various kinds of people from all walks of life.
Choi Soo-jong was cast as the platoon leader, the lead character, making a comeback to TV after a 3-year hiatus. Each episode will cost 300 million won.
Kim Hyeong-il, chief producer of KBS said, "This is not a simple anti-communist drama. We are trying to graphically and vividly describe the horr...
MoreJohn Hancock (Will Smith), the miserable superhero in Peter Berg's "Hancock", should be happy now.
Released last Thursday, the film is number one at the box office in Korea.
According to the Korean Film Council, Hancock attracted 948,397 viewers during the weekend (July 4 to 6), outnumbering Timur Bekmambetov's action film "Wanted", which ranked second.
Third on list was the Korean action thriller
"Public Enemy Returns", directed by
Kang Woo-seok.
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