Kim Ok-bin Wins Best Actress at Spain’s Sitges Film Fest

Actress Kim Ok-bin shared the award for Best Actress with Spain’s Elena Anaya at the 42nd Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, Spain.
The 23-year-old won the award, the festival announced Sunday, for her role in Park Chan-wook’s “Thirst”. Kim shared the award with Anaya for her role in “Hierro”, a psychological thriller.
“Thirst”, a thriller that won [...]

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Pusan Film Fest 2009 Kicks Off In Style

Busan - The 14th edition of the Pusan (Busan) International Film Fstival (PIFF) kicked off Thursday with glitz and glam. Some 150 star cineastes and VIP guests walked the red carpet, sizzling up the cool autumn evening at the seaside resort.
The Busan Yatching Center Outdoor Theater exploded with excitement, as more than the usual number [...]

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Hallyu Queen Lee Young-Ae Secretly Gets Married in U.S.

SEOUL, Aug. 25 (Yonhap) — South Korean actress Lee Young-ae, widely popular across Asia, has married a Korean businessman in the United States, her legal consultant said Tuesday, surprising fans everywhere.
Lee, 38, was married on Monday in the United States to a 54-year-old man from an IT firm, Dongin Law Group said in a press [...]

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Film Council Selects Mother for Academy Award Submission

The film “Mother” by Bong Joon-ho will be submitted for consideration for next year’s Academy Awards. The Korean Film Council on Monday announced the selection to compete for the Best Foreign Language Film in the 82nd Academy Awards in 2010.
Six films were initially chosen as candidates. The others were “A Frozen Flower” by Yoo Ha, [...]

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Actor Lee Byung-hun Debuts in Hollywood

Actor Lee Byung-hun, who is almost 40, is a seasoned actor in the Korean film industry. He debuted in 1992 in the TV drama “Tomorrow Love.” In the 1999 movie “The Harmonium In My Memory” Lee played a teacher who captivated the heart of a young woman from a rural area. And in the 2000 [...]

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Korean Demilitarized Zone to Be Venue for Film Festival

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing the Korean Peninsula is one of the most heavily armed areas in the world. But it is also a unique hot spot for both tourism and scientific research ― a specimen of the Cold War where rare species of flora and fauna abound.
The 38th Parallel now aims to reinvent the [...]

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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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