Jenny, Juno (2004) - 제니, 주노

2006/12/06 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

In the last few years, the "little mom" phenomenon has been increasing. There have been TV documentaries, a soap opera, and two years ago, a movie ("Jenny, Juno") about junior high students having a baby became a hot topic.

There are even fan pages of little moms on the Web. It seems that teenage motherhood has become a new trend in Korea.

But being a teenage mom is harsh. Most have to leave school for their babies, and because they are young and their parents don't support them, nearly 60 percent are facing serious economic problems.

It cannot be denied that they made a brave decision but the problem lies in the fact that they made choices which led to circumstances forcing them to make such a decision in the first place.

So how can we solve this problem? Reportedly some 30,000 teenage girls a year have abortions. Additionally, 15 percent of all teenage girls are sexually active but only 15-20 percent of them practice birth control.

Many girls don't know how to use cond...

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2006/07/13 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Two KBS hit dramas, "Autumn in My Heart" and "Winter Sonata", will be adapted into movies. Poibos, an entertainment company, said Wednesday that it signed an agreement on Monday with KBS Media to buy the copyright to "Autumn in My Heart" after securing the copyright to "Winter Sonata" in May.

Culture Cap Media, a Poibos associate, will produce the film versions of the dramas. The company has produced "My Little Bride" and "Jenny, Juno".

"Besides selecting a production company, no plans have yet been made in relation to making the movies", Poibos said. "We haven't decided who we will cast and whether we will change the story or not".

The dramas, produced by Yoon Seok-ho and written by Oh Soo-yeon, gained great popularity across Asia, making Song Seung-heon and Song Hye-kyo, who played the leading roles in "Autumn in My Heart", and Bae Yong-joon and Choi Ji-woo, the two stars in "Winter Sonata", rise to stardom in the entire Asia region.

Other dramas waiting to be made into m...

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2005/03/21 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

By Park Chung-a
Staff Reporter

Teen marriage emerged as the main theme of many domestic movies last year. They included "My Little Bride," "Marrying School Girl, " and the most recent and most controversial "Jenny, Juno," which deals with the marriage of middle school students following an unexpected pregnancy.

Now, television dramas are also joining the trend. Last year's popular KBS drama "Little Bride" was a love story between an 18-year-old girl and 28-year-old prosecutor ending in marriage. SBS' "My Sister-in-Law Is 19" also featured the marriage of convenience between a high school girl and a doctor.

In line with such a trend, many current popular TV dramas deal with the subject of marrying young and feature young mothers who are much younger than those in real life.

The recent KBS TV drama "Sassy Girl, Chun-hyang," which ended three weeks ago, also featured the married life of a high school girl.

In MBC's current daily drama "Be Strong Kum-soon," which began ai...

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I really love this koreandrama... fencejusayan 2007-10-08 02:17:54

2005/02/15 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

"Lolita", a fiction by Vladimir Nabokov that has generated widely mixed reviews from critics and mainstream readers, is often - rightly or not - synonymous with pedophiles. Debates about the film version are also never in short supply.

Similar heated shouting matches are playing out over "Jenny, Juno", a Korean movie which depicts puppy love between minors - and an unexpected pregnancy. The exact age: a 15-year-old girl and boy attending a typical junior high school.

For its sensitive topic and apparently sugarcoated portrayal of the teen's post-sex tribulations, the film has sparked a wave of exchanges online and offline among parents, teachers, students and even politicians.

Director Kim Ho-joon is not tackling a totally new subject, though. In his previous film "My Little Bride", he presented a lighthearted version in which a 24-year-old college student gets married with a 16-year-old high school girl.

Actress Moon Geun-yeong, who played the daring, cute character, was...

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i lik kim hye-seong ningyoo_sungi 2007-04-24 00:38:19

2005/02/10 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

by Seung-Jae Lee


The controversial can of worms "Jenny, Juno" has finally popped its lid: the second film by director Kim Ho-joon of the famed "My Little Bride", "Jenny, Juno" was revealed for the first time at a press screening on February 1.

The movie, which depicts a 15-year-old middle school student's pregnancy and delivery, initially received a rating of "18 years or over" by the Korean Media Rating Board, but the rating was lowered to "15 years or over" after an appeal for reconsideration, triggering a fierce debate on the ethics and freedom of movie-making. Over 970,000 people have already visited the film's official website ( http://www.jj2005.com ) as of February 10, which opened to viewers less than a month ago on January 17. The website bulletin board is teeming with postings that support or denounce the film's controversial subject matter.

To begin with the conclusion, "Jenny, Juno" belies the uproar surrounding it by being calm to the point of blandness. Conf...

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