From left, actress
Song Yoon-ah holds a bouquet of flowers after receiving her Andre Kim Best Star Award; actress
Kim Ah-joong, looking lovely in a pale pink gown, was one of the top celebrities who received the Andre Kim Best Star Award; and actor
Kim Beom, who rose to fame as part of the F4 in the hit TV drama "
Boys over Flowers", smiles after receiving the Andre Kim Best Star Award. / Courtesy of Andre Kim's atelier
By Cathy Rose A. Garcia
Staff Reporter
Christmas filled the air, as renowned Korean designer Andre Kim opened the doors of his new design atelier in Giheung, Gyeonggi Province, with a memorable Best Star Awards and Christmas fashion show.
As guests walked through the white wrought iron gates of Kim's property, they were immediately greeted by the sight of a giant Christmas tree filled with twinkling lights.
Kim said he wanted to create a fairytale-like world, which is why he filled the courtyard with Christmas trees, ice sculptures and even a white train. "Unlike the indoor ateliers, this space allows peopl...
MoreThe screen these days is full of bizarre girls. After
Jeon Ji-hyeon played the youthful and charming bizarre girl in the romantic comedy "
My Sassy Girl", the line is not ending. They are now bolder, one step above
Jeon Ji-hyeon's sassy girl. But as there is no young brother like an older brother or a younger sister like an older sister, there are not as many successes as "
My Sassy Girl".
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Frivolous Wife" –
Park Jeong-ah
There is
Park Jeong-ah of "
Frivolous Wife", which saw the light due to Jewelry's popularity. It is a family comedy that outlines the happenings when the flirt Chun Yeon-soo (...
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"
Frivolous Wife", the movie that
Park Jeong-ah, leader of Jewelry, filmed two years ago will see the light. There is a rush of interest as Jewelry is receiving much popularity in the music industry.
The movie is about a frivolous daughter, who has a newly rich father, who marries the eldest grandson of the eldest son from a wealthy family. It tells the crazy story of her life as a wife.
Park Jeong-ah changes f...
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A glimpse of the reactions posted on the Internet regarding "Dasepo Naughty Girl" ("
Dasepo Girl") gives some sense of the film's status. A user named Hidraqra writes, "it's the best film I've ever seen, but a film I would never want to see twice". Another writes: "it's a shame that the film was made in our country".
But perhaps that's exactly the response that the director,
Lee Jae-yong, was looking for. Mr. Lee, who is known for his stylish, visually-alluring films about sexual taboos, has made a film that is a hard slap in the face of conventional morality, full of puns and visual cues that play with gender stereotypes and cultural taboos.
The film, which was adopted from a Korean internet comic called "Dasepo Naughty Girl", is set in a high school where the objective is to "have no religion". It has students...
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Directed by E J-yong (
Lee Jae-yong), the film is an adaptation of popular Internet comic series with the same title. Set in a high school, the film tells a story of students and teachers with strange characteristics.
It takes place in Museulmo High School, whose tradition allows its students and teachers to enjoy free sexual relations. When a substitute teacher announces that their original English teacher is off school early for treatment of a venereal disease, he kindly advises one of female students in the class to go see a doctor, and other girls and boys in the class suddenly urge him to let them see a doctor for the same reason.
The film is full of unrealistic and...
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