| [INTERVIEW] Actor Park Hae-il - Part 1 (Source) |
2010/07/19 |
Park Hae-il [Chae Ki-won/10Asia]
When told he had not changed much appearance-wise from the days of his debut film "Waikiki Brothers", Park Hae-il responded, "Because I'm still immature..". But the caution he showed in explaining his role as Yoo Hae-gook in film "Moss" which he had won support for by fans of the original comic even while casting was in process, and using as minimal conclusive expressions about working with director Kang Woo-seok for the film, revealed that Park was far from being the boy in "Waikiki Brothers" who out of drunkeness, handed the score for a self-composed song to the girl he likes. It has already been nine years since then, during which he has... |More
|
|
| New wave of pop culture redefines Korea (Source) |
2010/07/05 |
By Andrew Salmon
Contributing writer
In 1990, the American academic Joseph Nye coined the term "soft power". This referred to nations winning friends and influencing people through the attraction of their values, culture, institutions and policies, as opposed to "hard power", based on coercion and payment. At the heart of soft power is the assumption that other people "want what you want".
This theory rationalized much of what the United States already offered, disseminated and lived up to ― or, at least, attempted to live up to: values such as political freedom, liberal democracy and free market economics. While these values could be disseminated by policies and institutions, it is, arguably, the US entertainment industry that has done most to disseminate the "American dream" globally.
A Changing Korea
"Soft power" challenged Korea's traditional development paradigm. From the 1960s, authoritarian governments had placed absolute primacy on economic growth. Social and... |More
|
|
| Park Hae-il: I Want to Become Good Actor Completely Immersed in Movie' (Source) |
2010/07/02 |
Actor Park Hae-il had been a rising star actor on the theater stage and debuted as a movie actor by appearing in director Lim Soon-rye's movie "Waikiki Brothers" in 2001.
As he has already acted for ten years, he has become a star actor popular enough to be cast as the main lead of the Korean movie industry's powerful director Kang Woo-seok's ambitious new film "Moss". In the movie "Moss", which will be released on July 14, Park Hae-il will play Yoo Hae Kook, who has to confront remote village people to find out the truth regarding his father's death. He successfully heads the cast of the movie without faltering while acting competitively with other great experienced actors##.
"Moss" is a thr... |More
|
|
| [10LINE] Korean actress Jeon Do-yeon (Source) |
2010/05/28 |
Clockwise from top center: actress Lee Hye-yeong, actress Moon So-ri,director Lee Chang-dong, actor Song Kang-ho, and director Lim Sang-soo [10Asia]
Jeon Do-yeon
"A friend who says she wants to become like me so badly that she will seal the deal at the risk of her future has only seen the pretty and fancy side to me. It's not difficult to become like me. It's just hard for someone to want to become like you".
- Jeon Do-yeon's line from her cameo appearance on SBS TV series "On Air".
About life as an actress. About life as Jeon Do-yeon.
Kang Shin-hye
A reporter who worked for teenage magazine Hi-teen in 1990. She ... |More
|
| |
| Festival of beginnings ending well |
2010/05/06 |
Amid the fresh green of a long-awaited spring in the small city of Jeonju, North Jeolla, moviegoers old but mostly young were standing in line Sunday as early as 8:30 a.m., waiting for ticketing to begin for the fourth day of the 11th Jeonju International Film Festival.
Most of the advance tickets to the event's screenings of 209 features and short films had sold out, and these cinephiles, poring over schedules and taking photos, were here to ensure a chance at the 15 percent of tickets reserved for day-of customers.
They were here not to see a new blockbuster or even the sort of big-name films that headline Korea's top film fest in Busan. Most of Jeonju's world premieres aren't glamorous prestige projects. They're small, low-budget but vibrant affairs like So Joon-moon's "REC", about a gay couple in Seoul celebrating their fifth anniversary.
These people were in line for a retrospective of indie documentarian Kim Dong-won, to introduce themselves to South American film, to ex... |More
|
|
|
