Peppermint Candy (Movie - 1999)

HONG Sang-soo casts MOON So-ri

Source | 2009/06/12 | 0 comments | Permalink |

2002 Venice Film Festival's Best actress winner MOON So-ri will challenge herself this time with a leading role in director HONG Sang-soo's next project. Details about HONG's film are sparse. The celebrated indie director is known for improvisation, writing and rewriting while filming.
 
KIM Sang-kyeong has been cast in the male leading role. It will be KIM's third film with HONG after "On the Occasion of Remembering the Turning Gate" in 2002, and "Tale of Cinema" in 2005. KIM also worked with directors like BONG Joon-ho ("Memories of Murder") and KIM Ji-hoon ("May 18").
 
HONG's latest feature film "Like You Know it All" was invited by Festival de Cannes. HONG's films are conveted by film festivals around the world. He garnered acclaim from his first films "The Day a Pig Fell into a Well" and "The Power of Kangwon Province" on.
 
MOON So-ri is well known for her acting skills which attracted LIM Soon-rye ("Forever the Moment") and KIM Tae-yong ("Family Ties" - "The Birth of a Fa...| More

Actor Seol and Actress Song to Marry on May 28

Source | 2009/05/08 | 0 comments | Permalink |

Actor Seol Kyeong-gu, 41, and actress Song Yoon-ah, 36, will marry on May 28.

The renowned actor and actress plan to announce their scheduled wedding at Litz-Carlton Hotel in southern Seoul Saturday at 4 p.m.

They made up their mind to marry, following a recent greeting session of their families, a close source of the couple said.

"We appeared together in two films but we started dating in fall of 2007 in full scale", said Actress Song. "We spontaneously got to have mind to get marry each other".

Actor Seol earlier married his senior actor Ahn Nae-sang's sister in 1996 when he acting in the theater. However, he divorced in 2006, four years of estranged life.

"Seol has lived alone since 2002, when he was shooting a film, "Jail Breakers - No. 815", as main actor as his wife lived in Canada. He has never lived together although his wife returned in 2005", said a spokesman of the agency of Actor Seol.

Seol is is best known for his roles in the popular "Public Enemy" and "...| More

Actors Seol, Song to Tie Knot on May 28

Source | 2009/05/08 | 0 comments | Permalink |

By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter

Top actors Seol Kyeong-gu, 41, and Song Yoon-ah, 35, surprised the public with their engagement to wed at the end of the month.

"Seol and Song are holding their wedding on May 28", Seol's management agency S2007 Entertainment said Friday. The two stars plan to hold an official press conference today at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Yeoksam-dong, southern Seoul.

The "On Air" TV screen beauty and the award-winning actor of "Peppermint Candy" are both graduates of Hanyang University. They acted opposite each other for the first time in 2002 through the film "Jail Breakers - No. 815" and then in 2006 for the melodrama "Lost in Love".

Coincidentally enough, Seol separated with his then-wife, the younger sister of actor Ahn Nae-sang, during the production of "Jail Breakers - No. 815" and then divorced her by mutual agreement in July 2007, when "Lost in Love" was released.

In an interview with Sports Chosun, Seol denied rumors about having had an ext...| More

Fluency in Korean Required 130 Movies

Source | 2009/03/01 | 0 comments | Permalink |

By Kim Se-jeong
Staff Reporter

Watching TV is a well-known method of language education. However, one might find it difficult to sit for hours without understanding much.

Jimmy Lin, a Taiwanese representative in Korea, persisted in doing it and mastered Korean, a language he only began to learn in college.

"I watched about 130 movies in one year", he said in Korean during an interview with The Korea Times last week.

He was a student at the Department of Korean Language and Culture of National Chengchi University in Taipei. Studying at Pusan National University in 2001 as an exchange student, he said he wasn't satisfied with the number of hours allocated to learning Korean.

"It was only three hours per week", which wasn't enough for him.

So he decided to spend more time watching Korean TV and films. Of course, that wasn't all he did. He hung out with Korean friends practicing Korean and attended classes taught in Korean but still gives the most credit to the time he s...| More

Moon So-ri returns to her salad days

Source | 2008/09/25 | 0 comments | Permalink |

Moon So-ri, an award-winning Korean actress, was a single when she joined the cast for "Sa-kwa", a movie about relationships, marriage and reunion.

While the release date for the film, directed by Kang Yi-kwon, was put back again and again, Moon got married and her perspective about the movie also changed.

Because of the long delay, Moon expressed her special feelings about the film when she joined the press screening of "Sa-kwa" in Seoul on Wednesday.

"It's overwhelming", Moon said. "There are so many good memories and stories about this movie, but I felt a sense of helplessness when the release got delayed".

Moon said the much-awaited movie would bring back the younger image she had in her debut film "Peppermint Candy" (2000). "The image in 'Sa-kwa' is different from how I am today, and I felt as if I was watching myself from the days when I was in 'Peppermint Candy'. I was certainly not sophisticated back then", Moon said.

"Sa-kwa", whose Korean title can be interpret...| More