Park Seong-beom (박성범)

Korean Films Enter Fukuoka Asian Film Festival

2007/06/28 | Source | Permalink |

The 21st Fukuoka Asian Film Festival opens June 29th and will run through July 8th in Fukuoka, Japan. This film festival started in 1987 to discover and nurture new filmmakers from all over Asia. This year, 14 films from nine nations will be introduced at the festival.

Korea will present four films: "Radio Star" starring the venerable Ahn Seong-gi and Park Joong-hoon and directed by Lee Joon-ik, the maker of one of Korea's highest grossing films "The King and the Clown"; "Cheaters" by director Park Seong-beom; the heart-warming "Ice Bar", starring young actor Park Ji-bin; and the comical "Mission Sex Control" featuring the cute couple Lee Beom-soo and Kim Jeong-eun.

An interview on Korea's enigmatic director Kim Ki-duk conducted by French film critic Antoine Coppola will be presented at the festival. The directors of the Korean films also plan to attend Q&A session following the showings of their films to answer questions from the audience....| More

'In hindsight, you may covet your neighbor's wife'

2007/03/12 | Source | Permalink |

"You shall not covet your neighbor's wife". The interpretation: There are plenty of men coveting their neighbor's wives, so the practice should be strictly banned to maintain the society's declining morality.

For many (if not all) human beings, however, making something forbidden only increases its tempting allure. Coveting a neighbor's wife, therefore, is a pithy statement about human desire and limitation, which is also an intriguing theme of "Cheaters" (Nae-yeoja-ui namja-chingu), a small-budget film directed by Park Seong-beom.

Seok-ho (Choi Won-yeong) does not covet his neighbor's wife - technically. He's married to a beautiful wife, but he does not want to remain faithful. A self-styled playboy, Seok-ho covets, well, unmarried women. He's maintaining sexual relationship with Ji-yeon (Ko Da-mi), a voluptuous photographer who wants something more than capturing a man's body through her camera lens, and also wants to seduce Chae-young (Kim Poo-reun), a college student who seem...| More

Ads look to capture movie magic

2005/09/27 | Source | Permalink |

September 28, 2005 ㅡ Even trend-savvy fashion and entertainment industry professionals were taken aback when they received invitations to an opening-night party ― for a TV commercial.
Commercials on TV are only split-second images put together in rapid succession, so how long could the gala take? But then again, the brand in the spotlight was none other than Giordano, a major import fashion brand with 92 stores nationwide. The brand made its name with a series of commercials that featured the biggest stars of the Korean Wave: Jeon Ji-hyeon, Jang Dong-gun and Jeong Woo-seong. Then again, the 150-plus spectators who turned up at a posh Hongdae studio earlier this year could have come on the suspicion that Gang Yong-ho, the celebrity photographer who worked for Giordano, would reveal a few scandalous shots to make things interesting.
The event unveiled one of the longest-running films made as a commercial, by the Korean commercial director Park Sung-min. What made this adve...| More