By Kwon Mee-yoo
Staff Reporter
MBC will air a new sitcom named "Kokkiri" from Jan. 21.
While the title of the sitcom, "Kokkiri" means elephant in Korean, however, this is not a sitcom about elephants. Breaking down the word "Ko" means nose in Korean and "kkiri" means together, and the show depicts the lives of a group of characters in the sitcom having nicknames ending with "ko".
Kwon Hae-hyo plays Guk Yeong-su (Psy"ko"), a high school Korean language teacher. He is on bad t...
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Director
Kwak Gyeong-taek returns with "a LOVE", a dramatic love story about unrequited love. KWAK previously concentrated on masculinity in often violent settings.
Joo Jin-mo plays the protagonist whose great love for
Park Si-yeon's character leads him to break the law for her. When he returns, she is in a relationship with another man.
KWAK helmed
"Friend", one of Korea's most successful films.
"Friend" portrayed a group of friends with at the heart of the group two boys who turn to a life of crime in different criminal organizations, ending in an unavoidable confrontation between the two youth friends.
Yoo Oh-seong and
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As men still cling to their fantasies of a "pure, innocent, and fragile woman with long straight hair", even in the 21st century, so do women harbor dreams of their ideal man, even despite the "Pet Boyfriend (Young boyfriends akin to pets)" trend that is now commonplace. They still want a man who'll protect them in the face of death, a man whose heart melts only for them. The movie "a Love", to be released on September 20, fuels these delusions by telling the story of one man's love. Why delusions, you ask? Well, there is no such man and no such love in the real world.
Chae In-ho (
Joo Jin-mo) meets long-time ele...
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When Korean male actor
Joo Jin-mo dropped by his dear friend as well as his acting colleague
Jang Dong-gun's house in March, the word "a LOVE" ("Sarang", love in Korea) written on a cover of a script caught his eyes.
Joo: What is it?
Jang: It's a script director
Kwak Gyeong-taek told me to skim through".
Joo flipped through the pages and he was immediately absorbed in the script. He could not take his eyes off the script even when Jang talked to him after clearing up their dinner table.
Joo: Who got the main lead?
Jang: I heard the director is thinking of "A".
In the afternoon, Joo called his agent and said, "If I don't get this part, I will kill myself!"
Although no one offered him the part, his pride was the last thing on his mind. He was desperate for the role. After many ups and downs, the determined 33-year-old actor finally got the part – the male lead in "Sarang (Love)" scheduled to hit screens next Thursday.
"a LOVE", a new film by ...
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In a way, "
The Fox Family" embraces the true spirit of the musical as a marginalized art form. The film is a musical parody about a family of nine-tailed foxes, the supernatural characters from ancient Korean mythology. It begins with a comic tone by featuring the characters as social minorities who are desperately trying to become like other people. The foxes strut and dance on the streets of Seoul with homeless alcoholics and a demented old lady who has been abandoned by her children. And there are the scenes of
The Fox Family running a circus in which they scare the hell out of local children by splashing blood everywhere.
The family's efforts to adjust to the life of human beings in an alien city has a specific purpose. They need to get hold of a fresh human liver and eat it before their 1,000th birthdays, in order to become human.
Perhaps, in practice, the director reveals the premise of the film too quickly. The film stresses the precious value of life, even if it is accompanied by agonies or hardship. But it makes thi...
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