The Concubine (Movie - 2012)

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  Jo Yeo-jeong
  조여정
  As
  Hwa-yeon
  (화연)
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  Kim Dong-wuk
  김동욱
  As
  Prince Seong-won
  (성원대군)
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  Kim Min-joon
  김민준
  As
  Kwon-yoo
  (권유)
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  Park Ji-yeong
  박지영
  As
  Dae-bi
  (대비)
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  Jo Eun-ji
  조은지
  As
  Geum-ok
  (금옥)
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  Lee Kyeong-yeong
  이경영
  As
  Eunuch
  (내시감)

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  Suh Young-eun gives birth after six years of marriage
  2012/10/24, Source,
  Singer Suh Young-eun gave birth to a baby boy on Oct. 23, her first child after six years of marriage. Her agency said that both the mom and child are doing fine and that Suh and her husband were over the moon,...More

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  [HanCinema's Film Talk] Is Korean Cinema Soft on Sex?
  2012/10/20,
  I don't know what it was exactly about the sex scene in Kim Dae-woo's 2010 remake of the "The Servant" that captivated my interest and senses. Perhaps it was the enchanting realisation/sexual release of the film's own internal eroticisms and sexual pressures or, admittedly, the 'cinematic purity' of the act itself as expressed through both the Choon-hyang's erotised body. Indeed, Jo Yeo-jeong's physical facets, and willingness, have contributed to her popularity as an actress both in Korea and abroad. I am not, however, so brave as to say that she might have inadvertently typecasted herself as Korea's own cinematic exhibitionist, but her recent role in Kim Dae-seung's "The Concubine" seemed to play off that image as an 'erotic icon' as her sexual agency was, once again, commodified through another historical Korean drama that taunted and teases its way through the prickly plane of sexual representation. "The Concubine" did not, however, managed to encapsulate the culture depth and erotic significance of Kim Dae-woo's modernised enactment of the Korean myth of Chann-hyang. In fact, the representation of sexual acts in recent years has seemed to be unable to transgress from Korea's own modern conservatism,...More

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  Jo Yeo-jeong Says Acting Lets Her Explore Her Hidden Self
  2012/10/06, Source,
  Actress Jo Yeo-jeong has kept herself very busy over the last two years, having appeared in two films -- "The Servant" and "The Concubine" -- and two TV dramas, "I Need Romance" and more recently "Haeundae Lovers". After wrapping up the drama "Haeundae Lovers", set in the southern coastal city of Busan, Jo said, "I struggled a little at first, as viewers kept drawing attention to my unnatural Busan dialect,...More

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  [HanCinema's Film Review] Korean Weekend Box Office 2012.09.21 ~ 2012.09.23
  2012/09/24,
  HanCinema's Korean Box Office Review  (2012.09.21~ 2012.09.23) The local flavors took the honors this past weekend with the top two films being Korean and claiming close to 70% of the ticket sales. With 1,192,689 admissions, Choo Chang-min's "Masquerade" secured another week as number one, jumping past "The Concubine" as the ninth highest grossing Korean film of the year. Choo's historical drama snatched 60.5% of the moviegoers with the new Korean film "Spy", Woo Min-ho's second feature film, slotting into second with 341,697,...More