When Romance Meets Destiny (2005) - 광식이 동생 광태 (Kwang-sik-i Dong-saeng Kwang-tae)

2007/08/28 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

The male cast for Director Lee Joon Ik's new film has been determined.

With Soo-ae as the female lead, Jeong Jin-yeong, Eom Tae-woong, and Jeong Kyeong-ho will join.

Jeong Jin-yeong who has appeared in three out of four films by the director will once again appear as Jung Man, the member of a traveling performer group. Jung Man is chased away to Vietnam after by loan sharks and creates a performing group and tries to recruit Soon Yi (Soo-ae) as his vocal playing a selfish and materialistic character.

Eom Tae-woong who has been praised for his roles in 'Resurrection' ("Revenge"), 'Devil' and the movie 'Family Ties' ("The Birth of a Family") will play the role of Sang Kil, Soon Yi's husband and will draw the life of a character who survives through a brutal war. Eom Tae-woong recently completed the filming of 'The Best Moment of Our Lives' and has also been cast for the omniversal film 'My Love' by Director Lee Han.

Jeong Kyeong-ho who acted in 'When Romance Meets Destiny" (K...

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2007/07/15 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

On a sunny May afternoon, taxi drivers, students and women carrying their children gathered by the thousands in front of a provincial downtown office building.

Paratroopers, who had rained upon the city for days, lined the streets as reports spread that they were about to withdraw, filling the people with a spirit of celebration. As the crowd waited in anticipation, the national anthem began to play over loudspeakers.

Then, the crack of gunfire ripped through the afternoon.

Survivors of the civilian massacre now recount that the beloved anthem did not signal their freedom, but the military command to fire, and the troops lining the street were there not to withdraw, but to kill.

"May 18", a wrenching new film by sophomore director Kim Ji-hoon, recounts the 10 days of the bloody Gwangju uprising, a pro-democracy movement ruthlessly crushed by the South Korean government in 1980 by tank-led paratroopers under the code name "Splendid Vacation". The military junta of Chun Doo-h...

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2007/01/04 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

"Does my hair style look a bit strange? I wanted to look like a doctor".

Lee Yo-won, 27, had her hair short and permed and was wearing a medical gown. I interviewed her at an examining room furnished with nothing but one bed. Lee is going to play the main character of an SBS drama titled "Surgeon Bong Dal-hee" to be aired at 9:55 p.m. on every Wednesday and Thursday starting from January 17. On January 2, I "examined" her at the set decorated like an emergency room in a studio located in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi.

Lee came into the examining room with her hands deep in pockets. She said that the realistic set with hospital equipment such as bloody sheets and Ringer's solution makes her feel like a doctor tired from night duty.

"It's like I've been hospitalized since we started shooting. I have headache. A hospital is not a place to stay long", said she with a smile.

In this drama, Bong Dal-hee is a resident physician who keeps her heart disease a secret and desires to be a special...

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2006/11/16 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

By Kim Tae-jong
Staff Reporter

At first glance, the combination of Baek Yoon-sik and Bong Tae-gyu in the new comedy film "How the Lack of Love Affects Two Men" (Aejonggyolpibi Tu Namjaege Michinun Yonghyang) appeals to those who have enjoyed the actors' wacky yet funny characters in previous films.

It was hilarious to see Baek play a hermit with super martial art skills and his own profound philosophy of life in "The Art of Fighting" and a traditional Korean wrestling coach in "Like a Virgin". Bong has also successfully created interesting roles such as a fainthearted playboy in "When Romance Meets Destiny" and a bullied student in "See You After School".

But what is missing from their new film is a story for them to tell and develop to show off their charms.

The film's storyline is so simple _ a father and his son fight over a sexy woman who moves into the room downstairs in their house, but the film totally relies on the two actors and seems to expect them to make the si...

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2006/06/16 | Source | Permalink |  Digg |  del.icio.us | Stumble It! | Share this news

A record 11 Korean features will be shown in the official selection of this years 9th Shanghai International Film Festival (SIFF) to take place June 17th to the 25th. Among them PARK Jin-pyo's 2005 film You Are My Sunshine will run in the official competition section for the Jin Jue Award. Another Korean film, Jo Chang-ho's The Peter Pan Formula has been selected as a candidate for the Asian New Talent Award.

Two Korean directors KWAK Gyeong-Taek ("Friend", "Typhoon") and BONG Joon-ho ("The Host", "Memories of Murder") have been invited to sit on the Jin Jue Award jury which will this year be presided over by French director Luc Besson. Other directors on the jury include Stanly Kwan and Gabriella Salvatores.

9 Korean films will be showing in SIFF's Panorama section with its slogan, 'a great party for films around the world'. Included are KIM Ki-duk's "The Bow", MIN Gyoo-dong's "All for Love" ("My Lovely Week"), PARK Chan-wook's Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, LEE Woo-cheol's "Cello...

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