Ever wonder why so many directors try to capture that so-called everyday life, only to fail miserably? These are directors with vivid imaginations, the gift of bringing us viewers to places we only dream of, who then crumble in front of what looked so simple, so normal. So everyday life. When first time director Lee [...]

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Last night I met an old friend who once hate body tattoos. He invited me to have some drinks but I told him that I never drink anymore. He asked me when did I stopped drinking (hard liquor), and I told him started when the truth recorded on the Bible has been revealed to me [...]

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A hard working ajumma (housewife) always giving 100% at home, even going as far as forgiving her husband when he cheats on her. A sexy twentysomething flight attendant who is having an affair, but can’t seem to convince her lover to abandon his wife and come live with her. A cheating husband, torn between the [...]

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“When you’re playing cards, there are no friends nor eternal enemies.” Be it poker (Hollywood) or mahjong (Hong Kong), the world of gambling always walked hand in hand with cinema, and it was only a matter of time before Korea would join the game. The blockbuster War of Flowers brings some distinctive cultural touches to [...]

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Youth is always the best and worst of times, disarmingly confusing yet beautifully meaningful. Kim Young Nam, assistant director on Hong Sang Soo’s Woman is the Future of Man, presents three stories about young adults reaching turnings point in their lives in his creative debut film, Don’t Look Back. Along with Kim himself, the acclaimed [...]

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A 5-episode Mini Drama, Freeze stars Lee Seo Jin (Damo, Firebird, Shadowless Sword) as Jung Won, a vampire who has lived for most of his 350 years of age trying to forget the love he lost. He runs a luxurious bar with his friend and fellow vampire Ihwa (Park Han Byul of Ode To The [...]

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In the past two years, the Korean Film Archive has been gradually releasing early Korean cinema classics on DVD. Of the half dozen films released so far, the KOFA has focused most of its efforts on the works of 50s Chungmuro pioneer Han Hyung Mo. He was cinematographer for the collection’s first title, Hurrah For [...]

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I recently received a message from one of my network friends in Friendster telling me to forward the message about the fate of friendster. Mr. Allen Smith (Manager of Friendster) Friendster system is getting too crowded!! We need you to forward this to at least 20 people. I know this seems like a large number, [...]

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When I was still running an internet cafe, one of the things that I feared of is the raiding operation of the NBI against end-user of the pirated products. Recently, Gerry’s Grill’s computers were confiscated by the raiding NBI team: Agents of the NBI Intellectual Property Rights Division (IPRD) seized computers of the Prime Pacific [...]

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The folk legend of Gumiho, the nine-tailed fox who wants to become human, first appeared in the 1994 film The Fox With Nine Tails, starring Go So Young and Jung Woo Sung. Twelve long years later, Lee Hyung Gon, the man responsible for the storyboard of one of Korea’s first real blockbusters, has come back, [...]

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