Yoon Soy (윤소이)

Tutoring popular among television stars... Why? 'For professional acting'

2008/07/03 | Source | Permalink |

It is becoming common for actors to go have private tutoring before filming dramas. Many dramas these days have the theme of professionalism, and the main characters want to show the career realistically.

SBS "Gourmet" is about cooks who compete for the top cook spot, and it is a key point for the main characters to make it seem more realistic. The production company, JS Pictures, made Kim Rae-won, Kwon O-joong, and Won Ki-joon attend cooking school three months before filming.

Main characters of dramas to come later in the year are also receiving training or lessons. Yoon Soy, the female lead of SBS "City of Glass", set to air in September, and Jeong Da-yeong are attending Baek Ji-yeon's Speech Korea. These actors come out as announcers. A representative of Yoon Soy said, "Baek Ji-yeon has said that if they're going to do it, they might as well do it well. They are attending the same classes as future announcers".

MBC "Beethoven Virus" is about members of an orchestra, so the...| More

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Moon Geun-yeong, applying for leave of absence to concentrate on her new drama

2008/02/07 | Source | Permalink |

Top star, Moon Geun-yeong applied for leave of absence to concentrate on her new drama. She is coming back to TV drama in 5 years and it is literally impossible for her to keep both her school works and drama schedules at the same time. She recently submitted her application to acquire permission to leave school for few months.

A spokesman from her agency said, "Moon Geun-yeong thought that if she's going to keep both her career and school at the same time, she won't be able to perform at the best of her ability for neither of them. So she decided to leave school for few months. As soon as she finishes shooting her drama, she will be going back to her school work".

Moon Geun-yeong signed a contract to star in a drama based on Lee Jung-myeong's best-seller novel, "Garden of Wind" and is begin shooting from March.

Ever since, 2003 KBS miniseries "Wife", Moon Geun-yeong concentrated on her studies and her comeback draw much attention from the viewer and the industry altogether....| More

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it would be nice if she could finished her studies garutay 2008-02-10 01:00:41

Shadowless Sword Dulled

2006/11/01 | Source | Permalink |

A middling period actioner under the shadow of yesteryear's Hong Kong cinema

Kyu Hyun Kim (qhyunkim)

With financial successes of the politically muddled but pretty-to-look-at "Hero" and the exquisitely spiritual "Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon" in North America, Hollywood studios have perked up their antennae trying to locate the next East Asian chop-socky flick that can make bucketloads of money for them. Following the footsteps of Miramax and Sony Classics, New Line Cinema has ventured into the martial arts territory by co-producing "Shadowless Sword" with Taewon Entertainment.

uestion that popped into my mind, as the clipped-film logo of New Line flashed by as the movie opened, was whether the American producers had had a chance to see "Bichunmoo (2000)", the debut film of director Kim Yeong-joon. Director Kim, armed with a thoroughly trite, culturally featureless love triangle backstory, created what appears to be a blatant pastiche of a '90s Hong Kong period piece, c...| More

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Drama Breaks From the Traditional

2006/02/24 | Source | Permalink |

By Park Chung-a
Staff Reporter

From left are Lee Han(a), Yoon Soy, Kim Min-hee and Cheon Jeong-myeong, who will star in the upcoming KBS drama "Goodbye Solo", which airs from March 1.
While many Korean dramas attract viewers through their use of exotic backgrounds and fancy characters, renowned drama writer Noh Hee-kyeong has consistently been working on an in-depth portrayal of ordinary characters, taking a more human natural approach.

Through realistic and yet emotional lines in her works such as "Lie", "Love Like Stupid", "Confession" and "More Beautiful Than Flower", she has created a mania for "Noh Hee-kyeong brand" drama, even though her dramas have not attracted a large number of viewers.

With her upcoming play "Goodbye Solo", the drama is attempted to break a new form of story-telling, breaking away from the traditional drama form, which evolves around a sensational or fatal incident concentrating on two or three main characters.

Seven characters of different gene...| More

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Shadowless Sword to open worldwide in 2006

2005/11/23 | Source | Permalink |

Shadowless Sword, a big-budget swordplay fantasy by KIM Yeong-joon set in the tenth century, is expected to be released in over 60 territories across the world.

The film is represented internationally by Hollywood-based New Line Cinema, which provided 30% of the financing in a deal with Korean production company Taewon Entertainment. According to Robert Remley, a senior vice president in charge of international marketing, New Line is also planning a large scale release in the North American market in 2006.

The influence of New Line Cinema, which often signs output deals with foreign distributors for works such as the hit trilogy Lord of the Rings, is expected to help the film sell widely to other international markets.

The film was shot in China, and was released in Korea on November 18. Set during the Balhae Dynasty in the tenth century, it tells the story of a female warrior who must return an exiled prince safely to his homeland so that he can assume the throne, as a group ...| More

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