Ditto (2000) - 동감 (Dong-gam)

2008/02/26 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

"BA:BO" (Babo) tells a warm tale set in a village during a winter. The feel-good film's line-up includes the popular actors HA Ji-won and CHA Tae-hyeon. KIM Jeong-kwon directed the comedy.

CHA plays a likeable fool who stopped developing intellectually since an accident at a very young age which took his father's life. He is now a grown-up and tries to make a living for himself and his younger sister after his mother also passed away.

The sister – a role by PARK Ha-seon – is a high school student who tries to hide the fact that the rather simple man selling toast near her school is her brother out of embarrassment and she ignores him at home.

CHA's character's only friend used to be the tough kid at school, a role by PARK Hee-seon. CHA's character was expelled from school as a boy for something PARK's character was guilty.

HA portrays a pianist who returns to her parent's house because of her stage fright. The first person to greet her is CHA's character who spends a lo...

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2008/01/30 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Director KIM Jeong-kwon will next bring a drama with comical touches starring HA Ji-won and CHA Tae-hyeon. The film is titled "BA:BO" (Babo, English translation: fool). The film is an adaptation of a popular internet manwha (Korean equivalent of the Japanese manga, Chinese manhwa and the western comic) with a great emotional appeal.

CHA portrays a young man who stopped developing mentally after an accident at a young age. HA plays his youth friend who returns to her hometown and the two are reunited. HA's character is a talented pianist, but she suffers from stage fright.

CHA is a comedy star, most notably for his leading role in "My Sassy Girl". HA's filmography ranges from comedy to horror and includes the titles: "Sex is Zero", "Duelist" and "Phone". KIM is the director behind the romantic drama "Ditto". The film is scheduled for release at the end of February.

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2008/01/29 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Popular actress KIM Ha-neul and YOON Kye-sang (of the former band G.O.D.) are faced with a relation crisis in their sixth year together. PARK Hyeon-jin directed and wrote "Lovers of 6 Years". She previously wrote scenarios for some of director LIM Sang-soo's projects.

KIM and YOON's characters live next door to each other and are in a long term relationship. Their relationship encounters some problems while at the same time they start having feelings for someone else who they met through their work.

KIM Ha-neul became a star when she starred opposite of KWON Sang-woo in the comedy "My Tutor Friend". They reprised their success with another comedy, "Almost Love". KIM also played in the romantic drama "Ditto" alongside YOO Ji-tae and in the horror film "Dead Friend".

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2008/01/29 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter

As Spring draws near, star actors Cha Tae-hyeon and Ha Ji-won will warm up the season with director's Kim Jeong-kwon's ("Ditto", "A Man Who Went to Mars") latest movie "BA:BO", a heart drenching drama slated for release Feb. 28.

"Fool" is a film adaptation of the explosively popular online cartoon "Babo" (which means "fool" or "oaf" in Korean) by Kang Full. It had millions of Netizens in tears, and the director, also a big fan, describes the movie version as being faithful to the original.

"I cried my eyes out when I read the cartoon", Cha told reporters during a promotional event at a Seoul hotel Monday. "After I was cast for the movie, I thought long and hard about how I would act out the role", said the face of romantic comedies like "My Sassy Girl" and "My Crazy First Love".

Cha takes his goofy guy-next-door image to play the town's jester, Seung-ryong. Once a bright young boy, he suffers a fatal accident, and at age 27 he has the intelli...

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2007/05/26 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

In a recent TV commercial for Hanwha group's newly-built apartments, an elegant model pauses to take landscape pictures.
It isn't different from other commercials, until you find out that this model is not an entertainment star, but an ordinary career woman who works for a graphic design company. Kim Jung-eun, 29, was selected to promote Hanwha from among 750 candidates who participated in a modeling contest this March.
Why would any big company choose an ordinary person to promote their apartment when Kim Hyun-joo, a big star, has been their official until now?
Shin Wan-chol, an executive at Hanwha Engineering and Construction, offered an answer.
"Ordinary models bring more familiarity and intimacy to consumers than big stars", Shin said.
This is not the first commercial not to use top stars as promoters. Daelim Industrial Company also chose an unknown model in its commercial instead of Chae Si-ra, a well-known female actress. The commercial for Daedong Company's Dasoop apartment...

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