Seven top actors, including
Kim Hye-soo and
Ahn Seong-gi, have donated the entire amount of fees that they had received for giving lectures to students to scholarships for young actors. The seven actors were invited to teach the "master class" at
Im Kwon-taek Film and Art College of Dongseo University this year, receiving 10 million won in fees. They donated the entire amount to scholarships for nurturing young actors.
The donation ceremony was held May 27 at Dongseo University. It was attended by ...
MoreA Korean Film Festival will be held across China this month, bringing 12 Korean features to three major Chinese cities – Beijing (Nov. 14-19), Shanghai (Nov. 16-21) and Kunnming (Nov. 25-28).
The event, organized by the Korean Film Council, China's state film authorities, and the Shanghai International Film Festival, brings a mix of critically and commercially successful Korean hits to local Chinese audiences.
Opening the festival is director
Lee Joon-ik's rock-redemption comedy ...
MoreKOFIC (chairperson KANG Han-sup) is commencing two events in order to revitalize the film interchange between Korea and China.
First of the two events is '2008 Korea-China Business Campus' which will take place from Thursday, November 13 to Monday, November 17, over the course of 5 days. The event will mainly focus on the process of sharing films as well as co-production opportunities. This event first took place in 2006 in China, and then moved to Pusan International Film Festival in 2007 as a forum format, thus making this year's event second edition to be held in Korea. First annual event focused on the effect of Korean manpower and resources in Chinese film industry, while the current Business Campus will concentrate on not only the further advancements of above but how Korea and China can collaborate on projects that promote exchange of resources between the two countries. The event will hold pitching/mentoring sessions, seminars, business meetings for producers, production/post-production/special effects staff members as well as personnel from other technical fields looking for more participation from both countries. Genesis CEO JEONG Julian Tae-sung (former COO of Showbox/Mediaplex, Inc.) and Chungeorahm Film CEO
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.
Writers and directors rally against beef imports
The film industry has expressed support for protests concerning the resumption of U.S. beef imports.
The 22 Korean film screenwriters include ...
More"Stepping out of the comfort zones"
Literally, an actor makes their living through their outer image. Thus they undergo an endless changes and transformation in order to unfold their hidden charms. Recently, the female actors who had been hidden under the tag of being 'sexy' or 'innocent' took a critical counterattack to bring out their true charms.
Korea's No.1 sexy beauties
Jeon Ji-hyeon and
Kim Jeong-eun transformed themselves into free and easy-going characters without any make-ups; and the No. 1 innocent beauties,
Son Ye-jin and
Lee Bo-yeong brought out their strong femme fatale sexiness. The following is the stories of HOT ladies' transformations in their HOT movies.
■Sexy beauty → Innocent beauty
▶ "
A Man Who Was Superman" :
Jeon Ji-hyeon
In her film, "The man who was a superman" (CJ Entertainment Co., directed by
Jeong Yoon-cheol)
Jeon Ji-hyeon transformed into a TV station producer and took away her previous image of having the perfect 'S-line' body.
Many agree that the boyish attractiveness in
Jeon Ji-hyeon was rediscovered in her loose T-shirt and pants without any make-ups and jewelleries. With black and white as th...
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