Oh Seok-geun (오석근)

Korean Film Festival 2008 at the Smithsonian

2008/05/28 | Source | Permalink |

The Smithsonian Institution's Korean Film Festival DC 2008, organized through the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries and made possible by the Korea Foundation, the Korean Film Council, and the US-Korea Business Council, continues into June. The remaining film showings fall into two categories: New Korean Cinema and "Love is a Crazy Thing". More information available is at http://www.asia.si.edu/koreanfilm2008/

"Empress Chung": Korean Folktale through Animated Film
Tuesday, June 3 at 7 p.m.
Meyer Auditorium in the Freer Gallery of Art
Independence Avenue at 12th Street, SW, Washington D.C.
For more information: 202 633 1000
Free with a ticket

Join Dr. Heinz Insu Fenkl, Associate Professor of English at SUNY New Paltz, for a stimulating discussion of Nelson Shin's rarely screened animated film "Empress Chung". Explore the way this film, based on the folktale Shimchong, the Blindman's Daughter, reflects central Korean values. 200...| More

Korean Films Receive Hot Spotlight at Udine

2006/04/26 | Source | Permalink |

By Paolo Bertolin
Contributing Writer

UDINE, Italy ㅡ With 13 recent films mostly unreeled in their international and European premiere, Korean cinema is once again under media spotlight at the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) taking place in Udine, a North East Italian city.

Now in its eighth edition, the fast-growing event claims primacy among Western film festivals concerned with Asian cinema. Certainly a one-of-a-kind format among film festivals that commonly tend to focus on art-movies, FEFF proves the global appeal of mainstream Asian productions, as press officials stress record-breaking figures in international accredited press and report screenings continuously playing to full capacity.

Among the seventy films from East Asia blending into the enticing FEFF menu, the Korean ones retain a prominent spot indeed, as both opening and closing soirees happen to showcase Chungmuro productions. On Friday, April 21, Han Jae-rim's unflinching debut "Rules of Dating (Yonaeui ...| More

Actor Cha Seung-won's "Blood Rain" advances into the Yubari International Adventure Fantastic Film Festival

2006/01/20 | Source | Permalink |

Three Korean movies are presented at Yubari International Adventure Fantastic Film Festival held every February in Yubari, a city of snow, Hokkaido of Japan.

The 17th Yubari International Adventure Fantastic Film Festival will be held from Feb. 23 to 27, where 62 films in total will be shown. About 100 guests related to movie business from home and abroad will join the festival.

As for Korea, "Blood Rain" directed by Kim Dae-seung and "Never Belongs to Me" directed by Nam Gi-woong were officially invited to "Young Fantastic Competition" with other countries' four films while "Crying Fist" directed by Ryoo Seung-wan will meet the audience as "Official Selection" that include 12 films.

In addition, various events will be provided including the ceremony to set up sisterhood relationship with the 10th PiFan (Pucheon International Fantastic Film Festival).

Meanwhile, director Heo Jin-ho's "April Snow" and director Oh Seok-geun's "Love Is A Crazy Thing" were officially invited t...| More