2002 Venice Film Festival's Best actress winner
Moon So-ri will challenge herself this time with a leading role in director
Hong Sang-soo's next project. Details about HONG's film are sparse. The celebrated indie director is known for improvisation, writing and rewriting while filming.
Kim Sang-kyeong has been cast in the male leading role. It will be KIM's third film with HONG after "...
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Lee Chang-dong's "
Secret Sunshine" is voted the best film of 2007 by a select group of Korean culture and society critics.
Kim Ji-hoon's
"May 18" came in second and
Lee Myeong-se's "M" completes an illustrious top three of in total twelve selected Korean films.
"
Secret Sunshine" continued to cement LEE's name among the great auteur cineastes. The film accumulated numerous awards, culminating in
Jeon Do-yeon's best actress crown at Festival de Cannes.
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MoreWith the Beijing Olympics over, broadcasting networks face the challenge of filling the void. Both KBS and MBC have already stepped up to the plate with two brand-new dramas: "
Love and Marriage" and "
East of Eden".
Despite the recent dismissal of the network's former head, Jung Yun-joo, KBS is determined to prove that it will continue to air quality shows. The channel's latest Monday and Tuesday night installment, "
Love and Marriage", seeks to boost viewer ratings.
KBS faces some stiff competition. MBC, which failed to score high viewer ratings with their last Monday and Tuesday night series "
When It's at Night, is aiming high with its epic drama, "
East of Eden".
Featuring a star-studded cast, including heartthrob
Song Seung-heon, this 50-episode series reportedly racked up 25 billion won ($23 million) in production costs. Like the novel by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck, this drama charts the tumultuous struggles between two households. The similarities, however, end there.
Set in Korea, the drama opens up in a coal mining town in the 1960s and ends in the 21st century. The plot revolves around
Song Seung-heon's character, Lee Dong-chul. Having witnessed his father's murder, Song's character is set on revenge. He faces the dark allure of crime as he enters the dirty world of casinos to get back at his father's murderer.
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Staff Reporter
In a recent television show, renowned actor
Jo Jae-hyeon stressed the necessity of star-studded theater marketing in a recent to make audience turn to plays from musicals.
As if his dreams of boosting local dramas came true, a growing number of people are rushing to theaters in Daehangno, central Seoul.
This is because of "Yeongeuk Yeoljeon 2" (A Series of the Best Plays) now showing in the district. The plays started on Dec. 7 and will continue until Jan. 4 next year.
The best-play series project comes four years after the 2004 "Yeongeuk Yeoljeon 1" put 15 best picks selected from the works performed between 1980 and 2000 on stage.
The first one drew about 170,000 people over the year, contributing to boosting the theatrical drama industry in the district.
For the second series, a total of 11 plays are being staged. But this year's series are getting fresh input ― a star-studded cast with the efforts by its programmer Cho, and fresher varied works.
Jo returning as programmer
Jo, who himself played Allen in "Equus" in 2004's "Yeongeuk Yeoljoen", is busy coming up with the line-up of plays, casting, promotion and marketing.
He performed in "Kyungsugi, Kyung...
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