| "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".
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| [ChanMi's star news] Actor Lee Cheon-hee gets in a car accident (Source) |
2008/09/17 |
 Model and actor Lee Cheon-hee who was in the movie "Beautiful" has been in the car accident.
The actor has been speeding in the highway with his car and ran into another car.
Luckily, nobody was hurt and everything was taken care of without trouble.##
Lee had finished filming for "The Great King Sejong" overnight and was heading home at dawn.
The actor Lee Cheon-hee has been in the movies, "A Good Lawyer's wife" and "Humming" and currently he is gaining much popularity from the SBS TV show, "Family is Here".
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| [ChanMi's star news] Actor Lee Cheon-hee, a denim jean model (Source) |
2008/08/19 |
 Actor Lee Cheon-hee has modeled for Levi Straus denim jeans.
Levi Strauss has been honored to have Song Seung-heon and other well known stars as their models previously.##
Lee Cheon-hee has received fame through the movies "Humming" and hit TV show "Family is here".
The lady partner for this photoshoot was a singer, Lee Chae-young who will be starring in "Queen Cheon-choo". ... |More
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| Gore-Drenched 'The Guard Post' Is Mostly Confusion |
2008/08/03 |
 Kyu Hyun Kim (qhyunkim)
Kong Soo-chang's follow-up to "R-Point" is a disappointment
There are hundreds of guide posts (GPs) along the length of the North-South Korean border. South and North Korean troops stationed at them are at a constant state of alert, with heavy artillery pointed at one another. These installations, a cross between a military depot and an underground bunker, are almost self-contained worlds.
One of them, GP 506, has stopped sending messages to headquarters. An experienced MP investigator Sergeant Noh (Cheon Ho-jin, "A Dirty Carnival") and a cynical medical officer (Lee Jeong-heon, "Humming", "Silmido") are sent to find out what happened. They find the troops literally drawn and quartered: the video evidence indicates... |More
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| Deluge of foreign films drowning Korean releases (Source) |
2008/03/05 |
One of the intriguing (or disturbing) signs about where Korean movies are headed is the near absence of press previews this month. For instance, except for a screening of Yoo Ji-tae's short titled "Out of My Intention" on Tuesday, there's nothing going on this week. No screenings yet either next week.
The declining number of domestic film releases is in sharp contrast to the surging demand for foreign films. According to the Korean Film Council, the Korean cinema imported 404 films from abroad in 2007, up from 289 in 2006 and 253 in 2005.
The rating agency handled as many as 72 foreign films in the first two months of this year, up 36.8 percent from the same period last year. The momentum comes not only from the major Hollywood distributors but also from small film importers, encouraged chiefly by the unexpectedly respectable box-office success of "Once" and "Lust, Caution".
The foreign movie boom is setting off alarms in the domestic film industry, which is already finding it... |More
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