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Four leading Korean directors working on overseas projects
2011/11/21, Source,
By JU Sung Chul
With leading Korean directors Park Chan-wook, Bong Joon-ho, Kim Ji-woon and Ryoo Seung-wan all working on overseas productions, journalist JU Sung Chul examines the details of their projects for "Korean Cinema Today"
The year 2012 looks like it will see an unprecedented rush of Korean directors working onforeign projects. This phenomenon seems similar to the situation back in the late 1990s when Hong Kong directors John WOO, Ringo LAM, TSUI Hark, Kirk WONG and Ronny YU all directed films produced in Hollywood.What's different is that whereas they were inclined to make films only in Hong Kong's specialty genre - the action film, their Korean counterparts are expected to make films that will retains the directors' varyingstyles and sensibilities. Park Chan-wook's "Stoker" and Kim Ji-woon's "The Last Stand" are produced by Hollywood-based companies while Bong Joon-ho's "Snowpiercer" and Ryoo Seung-wan's "The Berlin File" (working title) are to be co-productions,...More
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S. Korean Actress Ko So-Young
2011/11/19, Source,
poses for camera at the "2011 Style Icon Awards" ceremony held at CJ E&M Center in Seoul's Sangam-dong on Nov. 3, 2011.
A number of actors and actresses and other entertainers took part in the event.
Ko So-young was born on Oct. 6, 1972. She graduated from Chung-Ang University with a major in Drama & Cinema. She was known as one of South Korea's "ideal women".
Ko was born in Seoul, South Korea. She attended an all-female high school before gaining early admission to Chung-Ang University, where she studied computer science,...More
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Jeong Woo-seong is one cool character, at work and in life
2011/01/03, Source,
Actor Jeong Woo-seong takes a break on the set of "ATHENA" at the Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts in Anseong, Gyeonggi. By Cha Min-jeong
ANSEONG, Gyeonggi - Since his debut in the 1994 film "The Fox with Nine Tails", Jeong Woo-seong has made a career of playing strong, yet silent types with an air of melancholy. It's a persona that has brought him success. He went on to create similar characters in "Beat" (1997) and "City of the Rising Sun" (1998) and later made his mark as the romantic lead in such films as "A Moment to Remember" (2004). Now, at 37, Jeong is a major star in the Korean Wave. Last year, he returned to Korean television for the first time in 14 years as the central character in the SBS drama "ATHENA", produced by Taewon Entertainment. The drama is a spinoff of the hit television series "IRIS", which had ratings of 35.9 percent when it aired at the end of 2009,...More
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We are here... TV Drama, 'Scary Sisters' are back
2010/10/03, Source,
'Scary' sisters are rushing in.
Starting frm Ko Hyeon-jeong and Kim Nam-joo, until early 2011, all the female stars will appear in many dramas.
Firstly, Kim Hye-soo and Hwang Sin-hye, who are coming back from a year of rest,...More
