Hallyu - a Korean wave - top star
Kim Rae-won had a massive fan meeting on Dec. 4 in Tokyo to promote his photo book "Pure". It was a great success with 2 thousand participants at the fan meeting hosted by KNTV, a Korea specialized TV channel in Japan.
KNTV expected that next year would be "
Kim Rae-won's year" as the calendar of 2005 was decorated with Kim's photos. CEO Muto Yoshinoriof KNTV said, "1200 tickets of the first floor for KIm's fan meeting were sold out 3 minutes later after ticketing start and all tickets of the secon...
MoreHallyu fever in Japan is switching from drama to screen. Korean movies are making all sorts of plentiful records and leading the second heyday of Hallyu.
Korean movies boom begun with "April Snow" (Director
Heo Jin-ho, Production Blue Storm) is maintained to "A Moment To Remember" (Director
Lee Jae-han, Production Sidus Pictures) and "Sympathy For Lady Vengeance" (Director
Park Chan-wook, Production Moho Film) and is creating a sensation.
Two Korean movies ent...
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Kim Rae-won's fan meeting slated for Dec. 4 were sold out in just three minutes.
According to Sankei Sports on Nov. 15, tickets to the first floor, each costing 10,000 yen (about 88,000 won), were sold out immediately on Nov. 14 via the Internet.
The fan meeting will also serve to promote the movie "...ing" ("Blue Rainy Sky" in Japanese), directed by
Lee Eon-hee, which opens in Japan in early December, and Kim's latest photo album "Pure".
Tickets to 800 seats on the second floor, each costing 8,000 yen, ...
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By Paolo Bertolin
Special Correspondent
UDINE, Italy - Udine, a small town in North Eastern Italy, has fast become the capital of East Asian cinema in the West. The sixth Far East Film Festival (FEFF), the biggest film festival promoting knowledge and appreciation of Asian popular cinema outside of Asia, has in fact become an unmissable middle-spring rendez-vous for European fans of Asian pop culture and a key event in the calendar of Western film critics interested in tracking down the new paths taken by East Asian cinemas.
This year, Korean cinema plays a leading role in the festival's schedule, as both the opening and closing events are marked by international premieres of much-anticipated Korean productions.
Park Jung-woo's directorial debut "Param-ui Chonsol ('
Dance With The Wind')" had the honor of being the curtain-raiser on Friday, while
Kang Je-gyu's all-time box office smash "
Taegukgi" will bring it to its o...
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