Actress Yoon Son-ha will play the leading female role. Script reading rehearsals have begun
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"Someone to Love" will air after "
East of Eden" ends. Actress Yoon Son-ha will play the leading female role. Script reading rehearsals have begun
- Based on a comic book of the same title written by
Kang Pool and adapted for TV by
Lee Sook-jin who was the lead writer for "
Sweet Buns".
A new TV series from Director
Lee Jae-dong whose works include "
Sweet Buns" and "Thank You".
-As the follow-up TV series to
East of Eden, "Someone to Love" ...
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The theater production "Ogu", starring Korea's leading veteran actress
Kang Boo-ja, will be staged at the Geomdan Hall of Hanam Arts Center on November 22. The play, which premiered at the 1989 Seoul Theater Festival under the title "Good Bye", was directed by Lee Yun-taek in 1990 and has since received a consistently favorable response from local audiences.
The popularity of the play went to a whole new level when Kang joined the cast herself as the old mother in 1997. That year, the play attracted a total of 2.6 million audience members.
The play takes a look at the tragic and ...
MoreNominees for the 2008 Korea Drama Festival Awards, scheduled for November 1st at Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, were announced yesterday on October 7.
For the best acting award, nominees include respected actress
Kim Hye-ja of "
Mom's Dead Upset ", charismatic actor
Choi Soo-jong of "
Dae Jo Yeong", acc...
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Staff Reporter
"Ogu: The Ritual of Death" by veteran playwright and director Lee Yoon-taek, featuring "gut", or shamanistic rituals, will go on stage next month as part of the theatrical masterpiece series of the Oulim Nuri Arts Complex.
The Gyeonggi-based arts complex prepares the special series to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Korean contemporary theater this year. The year 2008 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Korean contemporary theater. "Silver World" (Eunsegye) by Lee In-jik, was first staged at Wongaksa, one of the early theaters in Seoul, in 1908.
"Ogu", one of the most highly acclaimed dramas viewed by many Korean theater-goers, returns four years after the last performance in 2005.
"Ogu" effectively depicts Korean conceptualizations about life and death, melting a tragic story of the death of an old mo...
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Staff Reporter
All three major television networks will start new weekend dramas for the entire family in February.
KBS will air "
Mom's Dead Upset", which deals with four-generations living together and the various incidents resulting from generation gaps. MBC will air "A Beauty Unmatched, Park Jeong-geum", about a divorced single mom, while SBS will air "I Am Happy", about a happily married couple.
The first episode of "
Mom's Dead Upset" will air at 7:55 p.m., Feb. 2. Written by
Kim Su-hyun, the hit maker who wrote for dramas such as "
My Man's Woman" (SBS, 2007), "Love and Ambition" (SBS, 2006) and "Trap of Youth" (SBS, 1999), the drama's expectations are high.
The drama features powerful actors and actresses.
Lee Soon-jae, who currently plays King Yeongjo on MBC's "...
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