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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Veteran Master Yu Hyun-mok Dies at 83

Actor Park Shin-yang carries the portrait of deceased director Yu Hyun-mok.
One of Korea’s greatest director’s in the first golden age of Korean cinema, Yu Hyun-mok passed away June 28, days away from his 84th birthday. The director is perhaps known best for his early milestone “The Aimless Bullet” (1961), often hailed by local critics as [...]

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4 Millions Viewers Saw The Good, The Bad, The Weird in Only 11 Days

‘The Good, the Bad, the Weird,’ in which Jung Woo-sung (The Good), Lee Byung-hun (The Bad) and Song Kang-ho (The Weird) are starring in, has attracted more than 4 million movie goers in just 11 days after its domestic release.
The movie’s distributor CJ Entertainment said last July the 28: “’The Good, the Bad, the Weird’ [...]

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East Meets West in The Good, The Bad, The Weird

The film that Korean’s will be lining up for this month has to be director’s Kim Jee-woon’s epic Western movie The Good, the Bad, the Weird which stars Hallyuwood heartthrobs Jung Woo-sung (The Good) and Lee Byung-hun (The Bad) with the charismatic Song Kang-ho (The Weird).
The East Meets West film has already received a great [...]

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Korea’s 100 Most Influential People for 2008 (50-1)

Here’s the continuation and last part of the Premierre-Elle’s Korea’s 100 Most Influential People for 2008 — From 50-1. Can you guess who made it to No. 1?
50. Park Myung-sung - Shinshi Musical Company, MD
49. Kang Ho-dong - MC, Comedian
48. Yoo In-chon - Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau Minister
47. Jung Chan-woo, Kim Tae-kyoon - Cultoo [...]

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