| Friends, Lawyers to Hit Small Screen (Source) |
2009/06/23 |
By Han Sang-hee
Staff Reporter
Which will it be _ teenage love and friendship, or the real, yet humorous lives of ruthless lawyers? Television fans will now have the chance to explore the two different worlds with the new dramas "Friends, Our Story" on MBC and "The Partner" on KBS2.
With heartthrobs Hyeon Bin and Kim Min-joon as the attractive, yet troubled protagonists, "Friends, Our Story" is the drama version of the mega-hit film "Friend" (2001). The sequel will offer the same dramatic plots revolving around teenage friends and move on to their love lives and other untold stories that were absent in the movie. In the film, top Korean actor Jang Dong-gun played the part of Hyeon Bin, and Yoo Oh-seong appeared as Kim.
The movie-turned-drama was made possible after Kwak Gyeong-taek, the director of the film and now the drama, decided to bring the popular plot back, this time to television screens.
"While I was thinking of how to make a drama out of a movie I worked on nin... |More
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| "Romantic Island" for Korean couples (Source) |
2008/12/22 |
"Romantic Island" stars singer-turned-actress Eugene (Yoo Jin), LEE Soo-kyeong, LEE Seon-gyoon, and LEE Min-ki. As singles the four set out for a tropical island where they get romantically entangled. The film will be released on Christmas eve, a popular time for young Koreans to date.
"Real Fiction" director KANG Cheol-woo is at the helm of the romantic film. The film was shot on the island Borakay.
Eugene (Yoo Jin) also starred in the recent romantic film "Heartbreak Library". LEE Soo-kyeong had a supporting role in "Tazza: The High Rollers" ("The War of Flower"). LEE Seon-gyoon featured in HONG Sang-soo's "Night and Day". LEE Min-ki was seen in this year's romantic drama "Humming".
Yi Ch'ang-ho (KOFIC)... |More
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| Debutant My Wife Got Married leads box office (Source) |
2008/11/03 |
With SON Ye-jin and KIM Joo-hyeok in the leading roles, "My Wife Got Married" opened in its first weekend at the top of the box office. Director JONG Yoon-soo's romantic drama sold 515,464 tickets.
The fall seems to be the season for Korean romantic dramas, "Heartbreak Library", another newly released film, found itself back at place seven of the box office with 47,000 viewers. Director KIM Jeong-kwon's film stars singer/actress Eugene (Yoo Jin) and LEE Dong-wook.
"Heartbreak Library" tells the story of a librarian who is first furious at a man who rips out page 198 of library books, then becomes intrigued, and finally decides to help the man who is heartbroken after his girlfriend broke up with him, leaving a note to look up page 198, without mentioning which book.
"My Wife Got Married" stars SON as a liberal woman who is an enthusiastic football fan. She holds off a marriage with her boyfriend (KIM Joo-hyeok). In the end they marry, however, after some time, she decides sh... |More
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| Searching for Memories in "Library" (Source) |
2008/10/16 |
By Han Sang-hee
Staff Reporter
Director Kim Jeong-kwon's new movie "Heartbreak Library" brings the story of two young people tracing their past, only to discover the sad, yet true reality of love and life.
Both holding on to a painful memory, the couple meet unexpectedly, and their trip to the past drives them to the point where they finally realize that it was not the memory that was torturing them, but their obsession with it.
Eun-soo, played by singer/actress Eugene (Yoo Jin), is a librarian who takes her work very seriously. So when she discovers a tall young man dressed in a black suit ripping the pages out of books stacked next to him, she calls him a criminal.
Jun-oh, played by Lee Dong-wook, is a sad-eyed man who tears out page 198 from library books, which explains the Korean title of the film " Page 198 of His Book".
He explains to the curious, and furious, Eun-soo that his former girlfriend left him a note saying to check page 198 without mentioning the titl... |More
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| [MOVIE REVIEW] Eugene shines in 'Heartbreak' (Source) |
2008/10/12 |
"Heartbreak Library", directed by Kim Jeong-kwon, has a misleading Korean title: "Geu-namja-ui chaek 198-jjok", which translates into "Page 198 of the Man's Book". On the surface, it is about a man who has lost his love and struggles with an uncontrollable sense of loss. But the real protagonist is his opposite, a woman who goes a step beyond her own romantic travails.
Her name is Eun-soo (played by singer/actress Eugene (Yoo Jin)), a librarian who has recently broken-up with her boyfriend. Right before heading out to the library where she works, Eun-soo looks in the mirror, where a photo is attached with a yellow Post-it hiding the face of her old flame. Apparently her emotions for him have not gone away completely, even though she knows all too well that he won't come back.
For Eun-soo, what's more important is her work at the library located in a seaside village, and she's a stickler. She knows where people hide library books and which ones are not in the right shelves. She al... |More
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