Vampire Cop Ricky (2006) - 흡혈형사 나도열 (Hob-hyeol-hyeong-sa Na-do-yeol)

2007/04/10 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

The Korean pop culture wave of "Hallyu" is continuing in Europe in the form of various Korea-related exhibitions and film festivals.

The Korea Foundation says that an exhibition of Korean traditional paintings opened at a public Asian museum in Greece on April 1 and will continue through the end of August. A total of twenty-six pieces of Joseon era paintings held by the Korea University Museum will go on display there.

In Finland, an exhibition on Korean housing also opened at its national culture museum last week to last through the end of the year.

The Belgian International Film Festival (April 2-17) has meanwhile invited a good number of Korean films for screening, including "The Host", "Vampire Cop Ricky", the animated film "Aachi and Ssipak" and the horror flick "A.P.T"

At Lasara Castle and Geneva in Switzerland, a Korean cultural festival will open Thursday (April 12-22), organized by the Beobgye Buddhist temple near Lausanne and a local ethnic Korean association.

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2007/03/20 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Two of last year's big budget fantasy thrillers have been invited to compete at the Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film (BIFFF), set to run April 5th – 17th, 2007 in Belgium. BONG Joon-ho's record-smashing monster film "The Host" and JO Dong-oh's purgatorial fantasy "The Restless" will vie for the top international prize in the program.

Other Korean films selected to participate in the non-competition category are AHN Byeong-ki's residential horror "A.P.T" (2006), KIM Eun-kyeong's boarding school nightmare, "Roommates - 4 Horror Tales" (2006), JO Beom-jin's scatological animation "Aachi and Ssipak" (2006), LEE Si-myeong's biting comedy "Vampire Cop Ricky" (2006) and LIM Ah-ron's animated children's feature "Mug Travel" (2006).

BIFFF ranks along with Spain's Sitges and Portugal's Fantasporto as one of the world's top three fantastic film festivals. Previous Korean awardees at the festival include KIM Ki-duk's "The Isle" (2000) and JANG Joon-hwan's "Save the Gree...

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2007/03/19 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

The movies "The Host" by director Bong Joon-ho and "The Restless" by director Jo Dong-oh have been invited to compete in the international category of the 2007 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, according to Pusan International Film Festival Senior Programmer Kim Ji-seok on March 18.

The Brussels Fantastic Film Festival will be held in Belgium April 5-17. Other Korean movies that have been invited to participate in the non-competition category include Lee Si-myeong's "Vampire Cop Ricky", Jo Beom-jin's "Aachi and Ssipak", Ahn Byeong-ki's "A.P.T" and Lim Ah-ron's "Mug Travel".

The festival is regarded as one of the world's top-three fantastic film festivals along with Spain's Sitges Film Festival and Portugal's Oporto International Film Festival. Previous award winners of the festival from Korea include Kim Ki-duk's movie "The Isle" and Jang Joon-hwan's "Save the Green Planet"....

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2007/03/18 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

Korea's monster flick "The Host" and martial arts fantasy "The Restless" have been chosen to compete for an international prize at an upcoming Brussels film festival, its Web site showed Sunday (March 18).

The Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film, slated for April 5-17 in the Belgian capital, invited the two blockbusters for its international competition section and four other Korean movies for a non-competitive section, it said.

"The Host" by Bong Joon-ho has drawn international attention with its mix of political satire, flawless graphics and humanity, telling a story about a monster created by toxic fluids poured into Seoul's Han River by a U.S. military employee (the dumping was a real incident in 2000). It has topped the Chinese box office and performed well in the United States after setting the local box office record with 13 million tickets and winning international prizes.

Jo Dong-oh's "The Restless", called "Jungcheon" (halfway to heaven) in Korean, is a...

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2006/11/20 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter

Kim Soo-ro and Kam Woo-seong, two veteran actors, worked together on the upcoming comedy film "Ssonda" ("Shooting)". Close friends in real life, they are confident that their combination will produce some laughs.

"I was able to focus all my energy on the film without having to use some of it to get to know unfamiliar co-stars", Kim said Friday during a news conference at Lafesta Mall in Ilsan, Kyonggi Province. "Working with people I know definitely helps me to make more commercially successful films".

The friendship between the two 36-year-old men began when they co-starred in the 2005 comedy "A Bold Family" ("Super Family"), in which they played brothers with contrasting personalities but the same goal: their father's fortune.

In the new film, directed by Park Jeong-woo, the actors play men with totally different personalities who accidentally meet at a police station and spend the night together. The movie depicts their struggles in gettin...

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