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[THE HIGH TIDE OF THE KOREAN WAVE(25)] Hallyu: the Koreanization of world culture (Source)
Korean Films in NY Asian Film Fest (Source)
Korean Films Attack the Big Apple (Source)
Film "Blood Rain" Wins Grand Prize at "Yubari Fantastic Film Festival" in Japan (Source)
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In the last few years, Korean films, TV dramas and pop music have become immensely popular abroad, a phenomenon known as the Korean Wave. This is the 25th in a series of essays by a select group of scholars and journalists looking at the spread of Korean pop culture in Southeast Asian countries and beyond. - Ed.
"Hallyu", or the Korean Wave, marks the long overdue re-emergence of Korean culture into the global arena. Korean culture's newfound international vogue situates South Korean cinema, TV melodramas, K-pop, and computer games as active participants in the transformation of world culture.
These "domestic" electronic audio-visual cultural creations are no longer limited to just the Korean peninsula and the global Korean diaspora despite that they are produced in the Korean language - a language that is not one of the globalized imperial languages such as English, French, Spanish, Japanese, and Chinese.
Despite this linguistic barrier, hallyu is now a recognized agent of gl...| More |
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This year's New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) features a spate of prominent Korean films and runs from June 22nd to July 8th. Now in its 6th year, the festival selects 30 top Asian films to screen along with three programs of award winning shorts taken from Korea's very own Mise-en-Scene's Genre Film Festival (MGFF).
Director Lee Jae-Yong will attend the festival and personally introduce programs one and two of the MGFF shorts. Program three will consist of shorts selected by Korea's most innovative genre auteurs, BONG Joon-ho, KIM Ji-woon, RYOO Seung-wan, JANG Joon-hwan, Lee Jae-Yong, and PARK Chan-wook.
A total of nine Korean features will be showcased during the two-week event, including Lee Jae-Yong's high school cult-comedy "Dasepo Naughty Girls" ("Dasepo Girl"), with the director present at the screening. HAN Jae-rim will also attend for the screening of his sophomore effort "The Show Must Go On" starring SONG Kang-ho.
Other films in the festival include PARK Ch...| More |
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By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
Korean cinema will take a big bite of the Big Apple as the 2007 New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF) begins Friday. The festival will feature more than 30 works from the East, of which almost a third are Korean. The event will take place at the IFC Center until July 5 and at Japan Society July 5 - 8.
"A 17-day-long festival will feature films from Park Chan-wook, Johnnie To, Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Takashi Miike. This year's festival will introduce you to buffalo-busting action flicks from Thailand, cartilage-cracking gangster films from Korea, and the first gore flick ever made in Pakistan!" the festival said in a statement.
Dubbed "one of the city's most valuable events" by the New York Times, the film festival is America's leading showcase for Asian movies. Launched in 2002 by Subway Cinema, the festival has featured over 100 films from China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand.
This year, Ryoo Seung-wan's old school...| More |
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The historical thriller film "Blood Rain" (2005) starring Cha Seung-won, Park Yong-woo and Ji Seong has won the grand prize at the "17th Yubari Fantastic Film Festival" in Hokkaido, Japan. The film was directed by Kim Dae-seung and produced by "Fun & Happiness Pictures".
The awards and closing ceremonies of the film festival were held at the Yubari Culture & Sports Center on Feb. 26. All the awards in the "Young Fantastic Competition Division" of the film festival, in which six films including "Blood Tears" competed, went to new films produced in Asian countries.
South Korean films attracted significant attention once again, as another South Korean film, "Never Belongs to Me" directed by Nam Ki-woong, received the Special Jury Award. The Critics Award went to a film produced by a Thai movie director.
The "17th Yubari Fantastic Film Festival" has been open in Hokkaido, Japan since Feb. 23. The film festival will come to a close after screening the grand prize-winning film "Bloo...| More |
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Film director Heo Jin-ho has been invited to the 17th Yubari International Fantastic Film Festival as a juror in the competition division. The festival will be held in Hokkaido, Japan from Feb. 23 through 27.
Film critic Chung Ji-wook has also been invited as a juror in the off-theater competition division of the film festival.
According to Kim Ji-suk, a programmer of the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), director Huh will join other jurors such as Sadao Nakazima, Kimitoka Ryoichi, and Eiza Niskanen.
Huh has attracted widespread attention from Japanese film fans for his films "Christmas in August" (1998), "One Fine Spring Day" (2001), and "April Snow" (2005) starring Bae Yong-joon and Son Ye-jin.
Korean films such as "Blood Rain" (2005, directed by Kim Dae-seung) and "The End of Mustang Boy at a Three-Forked Road" (2005, directed by Nam Ki-woong) have been invited to the "Young Fantastic Films' Competition Division", the main competition division of the Yubari Inter...| More |
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