Double Agent (2002) - 이중간첩

2007/11/07 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Han Ji-seung is directing Kim Tae-hee and Seol Kyeong-gu in the action comedy "Fight" ("Venus and Mars") . The two stars play characters who were once a loving couple, but now Kim's character is battling Seol's character as she ended up hating him.

Kim is popular as she combines good looks with brains. She has experience with action scenes because of her role in the big budget film "The Restless".

Seol is one of korea's experienced top actors. His acting talent led to roles ranging from Lee Chang-dong's "Peppermint Candy" and "Oasis", to blockbuster action films like "Silmido".

Han directed "A day" in 2000. "A day" is a drama featuring ko so-young ("Double Agent") and lee seong-jae ("Daisy").

Yi Ch'ang-ho (Kofic)...

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2006/12/21 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Ko So-young has spent a long time building up her luxurious image. Since her debut in the early 1990s, she has been identified as a beautiful actress with a radiant smile and a classy posture. No wonder she recently won a lucrative advertising contract for an upscale apartment complex advertisement.

Ko is now betting that she can overhaul her image, at least on the silver screen anyway. In "Eonniga ganda (Project Makeover)" ("Go Go Sister"), directed by Kim Chang-rae, she plays an average Korean girl in her 30s who wants to redesign her complicated life.

The challenge: Ko is far from an average woman by any account. Her overall image does not have any "average" quality. But the character she plays in the film is, well, average.

Na Jeong-ju, played by Ko, is an assistant designer who believes her first love destroyed her entire life. Back in 1994 - at the tender age of 18 - Jeong-ju fell in love with Cho Ha-nui (Kim Jung-min), a high school kid who wanted to become a top singer...

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2006/06/29 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

The first prejudice people have against actress Ko So-young is that she is a trend-surfer. The second is that she is a snob who will marry into the owner family of one of Korea's big conglomerates. She shrugs off the first, declaring herself "oblivious" to trends. But the other charge clearly rankles. "I just can't cope with that. I want a man who is ordinary and takes good care of his family, and who stays faithful to me his whole life", she says.

Back after a hiatus since her 2002 movie "Double Agent", Ko is promoting the new horror movie "Apartment" ("A.P.T".) due out on July 6. The Chosun Ilbo caught up with her at a café in Seoul's not un-trendy Cheongdam-dong this week. "I wanted to play in a genre movie", Ko explains. She plays Sejin, who tries to solve the mystery of serial killings incidents, in the movie based on a comic book by Kang Pool.

Ko says she is like a character in a romantic comedy, not the melodrama she has often been cast in. Thus she stayed up all night w...

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2006/06/27 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

There is something afoot in Korean horror movies. From "Arang", to be released on June 28, via "Apartment" ("A.P.T".) out in July, to "To Sir With Love", "Cinderella" and "Untold Story - The Red Forest" all to be released in August, indigenous horror movies have evolved to a higher level. In an effort to wash away the cheap shocker taint, the budgets are growing and the casts are becoming stellar. This summer, even moviegoers with sophisticated tastes are bound to find one good enough for them.

Quality Horror

Horror films have long been a gateway to success for new directors due to their relatively low budgets. If a W2-3 billion (US$1=958) investment including marketing costs lured more than 1 million viewers, the movie was considered to have hit the jackpot. But the new slew of horror films are betting on quality. "To Sir, With Love" cost W4.2 billion, "Apartment" W4 billion, "Arang" W4 billion' and "Cinderella" W3.6 billion -- all pretty close to the average for Korean movies, ...

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2006/06/09 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

The Korean Film Archive (KOFA) programmed Korean films dealing with the Korean War and the division of Korea with English subtitles. The films will be screened on weekend afternoons in the month June. The program is titled "War and Society: 1950-2000" ( http://www.koreafilm.org/theatre/screening_main.asp ) and features Korean classic films starting from 1950 up to contemporary blockbusters until 2000.

The Korean Film Archive hopes to achieve a better understanding of the Korean society and its people among foreigners through this series of films. The Korean War and the division of Korea are such pivotal and influential elements of contemporary Korea, that insight in these aspects are crucial for understanding Korea.

Many Korean films deal with the Korean War and/or the division of Korea. Films using this subject matter vary greatly in genre and style. From a bleak spy-thriller like "Double Agent" to a comedy like Spy Girl. The list of most popular films in Korea contains many fil...

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