Park Dae-yeong (박대영)

Pakistan & Myanmar Hold Korean Film Fests

Source | 2008/11/06 | Permalink |

The South Korean Embassy and Pakistan National Council of the Arts are holding a Korean Film Festival at the National Art Gallery in Islamabad, November 5 – 6. The event will screen four Korean features spanning eight years.

The festival will open with IM Kwon-taek's 100th feature, "Beyond the Years" (2007), a music-themed reprisal of his '93 classic "Sopyeonje". Rounding out the program are BONG Joon-ho's monster hit "The Host" (2006), and two films from the year 2000, PARK Dae-yeong's comedy "Just Do It!" and YANG Yoon-ho's firefighting blockbuster "Libera Me". KOFIC supported English-subtitled prints for those two films.

Meanwhile, over in Myanmar, the former capital city of Yangon hosts a 4-day Korean film festival, kicking off Nov. 7th. Screening at the Thamada Cinema are five Korean movies including JEON Yoon-soo's "Le Grand Chief" (2007), KIM Dong-hyun's "Hello, Stranger" (2007), LIM Tae-hyeong's "Little Brother" ("Hello Brother", 2005) and two other features to be showc...| More