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  [HanCinema's Film Review] "Jesus Hospital": A Family in Crisis
  2012/03/10,
  Films with blinding religious themes don't always capture my interest, especially when Christianity is being portrayed. Luckily though, Lee Sang-cheol and Shin A-ga's "Jesus Hospital" is in no way intrusive or preachy. It is a tale of family, more specifically; it's a generational story that makes uses of religion as an intangible thread between family members as one family struggles to re-stitch the divide between them. It's highly emotive, thematically driven, and memorable. "Jesus Hospital" had its world premier at the 16th Busan International Film Festival and its two leading ladies (Hwang Jeong-min-I and Han Song-hee) claimed the festival's "DGK Award" for their efforts. It was also a crowd pleaser, walking away with the "Citizen Reviewers' Awards", which is shared with Park Hong-min's "A Fish" and "Romance Joe" by Lee Kwang-kuk. A couple months latter, the film was honoured at the 37th Seoul Independent Film Festival and was awarded the competitions Grand Prize,...More

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  Korean Cinema 2011: The View from Here
  2012/01/14, Source,
  US-based author and curator of film at the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries in Washington, DC, Tom VICK shares his views on recent trends he has noticed programming their Korean film festival. How do you introduce new Korean films to an American audience? Since 2004, when I began programming the Korean Film Festival DC, the answer to this question has become more difficult to answer. This is not to say that it's harder to find good films. Quite the opposite. The problem (if it can be called a problem) is that there are so many films to choose from.The explosion of digital production and distribution in the last decade or so has made it easier than ever to make a film, but harder than ever find an audience for it,...More

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  Korean movies opening today 2012/01/12 in Korea
  2012/01/12, Source,
  Korean movies opening today 2012/01/12 in Korea "Jesus Hospital" and Korean-American animated movie "The Outback",...More

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  "Brain" ratings stall, final episode in sight
  2012/01/10, Source,
  Ratings for KBS 2 drama "Brain" have gone slightly up. According to the January 11th report by AGB Nielsen Media Research, the eighteenth episode of "Brain" rated 16.2%. This is 0.8% higher than the previous seventeenth episode,...More