Kwak, Kwon team up for melodrama 2011/07/21, Source,
From left, actors kwon Sang-woo and Jeong Ryeo-wo pose with director Kwak Gyeong-taek at the press conference for the film "Pained", which will open in the fall. / Yonhap
By Lee Hyo-won
Kwak Gyeong-taek, best known for turning "pretty boys" into hardboiled action stars, has teamed up with kwon Sang-woo for his latest film "Pained".
The director, who has featured heartthrobs Jang Dong-gun as a gangster ("Friend") and Jeong Woo-sung as a disheveled hobo ("Mutt Boy"), did not necessarily choose Kwon because of the actor's knack for pulling off macho roles,...More
'Blossom' portrays love in twilight years 2011/02/07, Source,
A scene from the film "Late Blossom"
By Kwon Mee-yoo
Elderly people are often excluded from big and small screens dominated mainly by the portrayal of romance between young couples. However, the new movie "Late Blossom" features the love of four people in their twilight years, based on a hit Internet cartoon by Kang Pool,...More
KIM Yun-woo works as a low level civil servant in a district office. Although he is thirty, he is still quite innocent for his age and has been on numerous unfruitful blind dates in search of a suitable wife. After moving to a new place, he often runs into HAN Soo-young, a high school student who lives downstairs. HAN Soo-young is a cheerful and eccentric eighteen-year-old who lives with her mother that acts like a princess. Meanwhile, KANG Sook has just started to work at the district office straight after graduating from high school and falls head over heels for KWON Ha-kyung, a melancholic woman who always smokes in the same spot, because of her beautiful smile. Ha-kyung is still holding onto an old flame and keeps on looking for traces of that love every day. KANG Sook continues to keep wooing her, irregardless of her living in the past. Can their futures lead to a happy ending?
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