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Actress Ryoo Hyeon-kyeong, who has been recently on the spotlight by expanding her career into film directing, gets into the 'Asiana International Short Film Festival'.

Ryoo made a great achievement in 'CINE Student' section of the 13th Chungmuro International Film Festival in Seoul where her short piece, 'Kwang Tae's Basic Story', was among the final 30 short films out of the total 120 entries. Her work fell short of receiving awards but she made progress with her talent as a director as well as an actress recognized.
As a director, she attends the 7th Asiana International Sh...More

By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter

Ten rising South Korean filmmakers present seriocomic stories about money matters in the omnibus project "Short! Short! Short! 2009": Show Me the Money.

As much as the opening film for the 10th Jeonju International Film Festival is about money, the tight budget for the project ($5,000 per director) is most palpable. The screaming individuality and experimentalism of each episode compensate, but commercial prospects seem slight and the flick will most likely find a small niche in arthouse cinemas.

The omnibus reel opens with Choi Ik-hwan's one-cut flick "Our Last Words, Live". The "Life is Cool" director offers a mock home video featuring two despairing young men, who, defrauded, bankrupt and about to get arrested for false charges, try to assert their innocence by recording their last words on tape before committing suicide. But life ― and death ― are often beyond one's control.

In "A Tip for Cigarettes" by Nam Da-jeon, a news reporter stages a story about teenage smoking. What seemed simple enough ― paying an underage smoker to act like she is askin...More

By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter

The intention of the horror movie-wannabe "Yoga" seems sound enough. Misled desire for eternal beauty and youth leads a group of already perfectly gorgeous women to a sinister place where they all end up screaming and running for their lives.

But beauty has its price, and a horror movie that focuses only on looking good certainly forfeits its scare factor.

Director Yoon Jae-yeon, who made a fantastic feature film debut with "Wishing Stairs", the third in the blockbuster high school horror series, tries to create a "this could happen to you" scenario in an urban setting. But she thoroughly disappoints, delivering instead a pitiful B-movie spoof that may, at best, be granted a spot at a minor fantasty film festival.

Singer-turned-actress Eugene (Yoo Jin) stars in the lead role as Hyo-jeong (a.k.a. the one who shrieks the most in the film). Hyo...More

There are eerie and horrific things that happen in this Yoga school. The film, "Yoga" has been presented before the press where the beauty stars have come.

Stars Yoo Jin, Cha Soo-yeon, Park Han-byeol, Jo Eun-ji, Kim Hye-na, Lee Yeong-jin, and Hwang Seung-eon are starring in this film!

The 7 characters will be obsessed with becoming ...More

On the 7th, the 17th Choonsa Film Award Festival Ceremony opened inviting many stars to this one place.

However, the numbers of stars have been lower than last years'. Of course, the stars did not attend because of personal reasons.

There has been many criticism in about this event. Complaints were...More