Was Ha Ji-won Snubbed at Daejong Film Award?

Singer-turned-actress Jang Nara’s nomination for Best Actress at the upcoming Daejong (Grand Bell) Film Festival, the country’s most prestigious film awards, has sparked a stormy debate.
The festival’s nomination of Jang for Korea’s equivalent of the Oscars was met with surprise by many as her film “The Sky and the Sea,” in which she plays the [...]

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Kim Myung-min Takes Another Stab at Big-Screen Success

Actor Kim Myung-min is returning to the big screen. And this time he hopes to make a larger splash than his last effort, the 2008 crime film “Open City,” which had an average showing at the box office.
Kim actually made a name for himself - and gained legions of fans - for his recent work [...]

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Ha Ji-won: Hard Work Is Everything

The success of the film “Haeundae”, which became only the fifth movie in Korean film history to attract over 10 million viewers just 33 days after it was released on July 22, is in no small part due to Ha Ji-won, who plays the heroine. So convincing is Ha’s Busan accent that even locals believe [...]

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Kim Myung-min Sheds 20 Kilograms for My Love By My Side

Constantly transforming, from a callous doctor to a feisty conductor, Kim Myung-min is an actor with many faces, but he was unrecognizably thin in the movie trailer for “Closer to Heaven / My Love By My Side” (working title), revealed to the press Monday in Seoul.
The 36-year-old star shed 20 kilograms to play a terminally [...]

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Tsunami Movie Haeundae Hits Korea

For what maybe the longest possible wait for an internationally released movie to hit its own shores, “Haeundae” is about to be released in Korea. Back in April the film sold to a number of territories at the Hong Kong Film Mart. The CJ released film then went on to repeat its success at Cannes. [...]

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Korean Film Industry Weathers Recession

It seems the film industry has emerged as one of the few recession-proof industries while the economy struggles to regain its footing.
The stats are out, showing that Korean films recorded their best ever performance, with a 4.7 percent increase in revenue from ticket sales compared to a year earlier.
An estimated 72 million Koreans went to [...]

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Haeundae Manages to Be Entertaining

The anticipated summer blockbuster “Haeundae” is like a blushing bride, wearing something new, something old and something blue. While the tsunami film rides upon tides of Korean cliches and brims with disappointing computer graphics, it manages to smartly evade some Hollywood disaster film conventions.
The film stays afloat on the strength of a talented, star-studded cast [...]

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