Park Chan-wook (박찬욱)

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  Song Kang-ho's son joins U-16 squad
  2012/02/01, Source,
  Actor Song Kang-ho's son Song Jun-pyung has been called up to the national Under-16 football squad. The 15-year-old joined a training camp at the Mokpo International Football Center, South Jeolla Province, on Wednesday. The camp is to end on Feb. 14 and is headed by Chunnam Dragons coach Choi Moon-sik, who was chosen to head the U-16 team on Jan. 6. A total of 33 youths, including 19 from last year's roster, are participating in the two-week training,...More

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  Actor Choi Min-sik reveals that he nearly died in grade three.
  2012/01/30, Source,
  Actor Choi Min-sik revealed that he was given the death sentence by the doctor while he was in grade three at elementary school. On the set of recording for the SBS TV show "Healing Camp" on Jan. 30, the actor said that he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and told by his doctor that there was nothing that could be done for him. Despite being told that he should give up, Choi said that he recovered through an extended stay in the mountains. The 49-year old Korean actor said that despite the grim diagnosis that he was restored to health in just one month,...More

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  Four Korean nominations at the Asian Film Awards
  2012/01/19, Source,
  The 6th Asian Film Awards has announced nominations in 14 categories including one for Park Hae-il, the star of period action thriller "Arrow, The Ultimate Weapon", and three nominations for South Korea's Academy Award Best Foreign Language Film submission "The Front Line". Park Hae-il was nominated in the Asian Film Awards' Best Actor category for his performance in "Arrow, The Ultimate Weapon", the top domestic film last year in South Korea. Park played a character who is forced out of his shell to wage a one-man war to save his sister and her fiancé when they are taken by foreign invaders,...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