Korean actress Jang Seo-hee at SBS Drama Awards [SBS]
Korean actress Jang Seo-hee won the grand prize at the SBS Drama Awards, held at SBS' Open Hall on December 31.
Jang was awarded the top honor for her role in "Temptation of Wife", which was one of the most-watched and most controversial dramas of the year for its sensational storyline.
"I didn't want to cry. I wanted to be cool about receiving [the award]".. said Jang in her acceptance speech. "I thought I wouldn't be able to win this because of the genre. I would like to thank writer Kim Soon-ok... I was in a slump for three years but she helped me make a comeback"....More
Female characters on TV dramas are increasingly growing vicious these days, like those in the dramas "
Boys over Flowers", "Cruel Temptation" and "
Again, My Love" While the main characters typically grab the spotlight at the beginning, it's the vicious characters who steal the spotlight as time goes by. The popularity of "nice" characters has been on decline recently, giving way to malicious villains. Vicious yet charming characters first appeared on Korean TV dramas about a decade ago. They first drew viewers' attention through the SBS TV drama "Trap Of Youth", which dealt with the subject of revenge. Its viewer ratings soared to 35.7 percent (according to AGB Nielson), attesting to its enormous popularity. In the drama, the innocent-looking main character, played by
Shim Eun-ha, avenged herself upon the man who she was in love with but who had betrayed her.
Many other TV dramas picked up on the trend, including "Women's World" and "
Miss Mermaid". Since then, the popularity of vicious characters has remained very high among viewers. The TV drama "...
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Kyu Hyun Kim (qhyunkim)
The second installment in the You Il-han and
Ahn Byeong-ki team-up horror series concerns a young working mother Min-young (
Kim Seo-hyeong, the victimized teacher in "
Voice Letter"), who moves into an "office-tel" room (a studio flat that doubles as a workplace) with a kindergarten-age daughter (
Kim Yoo-jeong). Of course, the office-tel turns out to be spooked by the spirit of another young mother, whose attacks are responsible for a series of mysterious deaths. Soon it is uncovered that the building originally had another floor (the "fourth floor", which, like the thirteenth floor in the West, is considered bad luck and usually absent in Korean buildings). When the vengeful spirit seeks to possess Min-young's daughter, she decides to uncover the sordid past of the office-tel building.
Written and directed by Kwon Il-soon, who received notice due to his short "Hide and Seek" (2001) that, not coincidentally, explores a young child's feelings of loss of her mother, "
Forbidden Floor - 4 Horror Tales" unfortunately suffers from overly familiar setups. As I have been lamenting on these and other pages, Korean and Japanese horror films have long been infested by the pointless Sadako clones (PSC), which in ironic ways have fulfilled the fictional promise of Suzuki Koji's o...
MoreLike Koreans enjoy specific dishes and activities in particular seasons, young Koreans have the tradition of being chilled down during the hot summer season by horror films; which compete with the spectacular blockbusters lined-up by Hollywood each summer. Early horror titles include "
Black House" (Geomeun Jib) and "
Evil Twin" (Jeonseolui Gohyang).
"
Black House" brings together director
Sin Tae-ra ("...
MoreHorror. Directed by
Kwon Il-soon. Minyoung (
Kim Seo-hyeong) moves into a new apartment complex which doesn't have a fourth floor with her 6-year-old daughter Ju-hee (
Kim Yoo-jeong). Min-young notices somethin...
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