Friend is the emotional, violent and compelling story of four schoolmates growing up over two decades in Pusan. After being very close during their school days, two of the boys go away to college whereas the other two stay at home. When the boys return from their schooling they are shocked to discover that one [...]

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Lighthearted, witty, and bitingly funny, surprise box office hit 200 Pounds Beauty has become one of the top ten grossing films of all time and the highest grossing romantic comedy ever. Based on a Japanese comic by Suzuki Yumiko, the film revolves on a topic all too familiar in Korea: plastic surgery. Kim Ki Duk [...]

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Do other online companies hate Google? This is actually a question raised on my head after knowing that Viacom wants Google to pay them $1 billion. Yahoo! in other way insult their users when searching for Google using Yahoo!’s search engine. And now, Ask.Com post the ad on Ask.Com SERP as shown below whenever you’ll [...]

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What comes first? Love or responsibility? That’s the question asked by Wonderful Life, the latest blockbuster K-Drama from MBC! Han Seung Wan (Kim Jae Won of 100 Days with Mr. Arrogant and the MBC drama Romance) is a handsome and cool single guy…and he knows it! Seung Wan thinks women love him, and he enjoys [...]

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Park Kwang Su, the acclaimed director of Chilsoo and Mansoo and Black Republic, returns to the chair for his first feature film since 1999, and the results may surprise those familiar with his works. Departing from the gritty social realism of his earlier titles, Park’s latest film Meet Mr. Daddy focuses on the personal experience, [...]

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Director Kore-eda Hirokazu (Nobody Knows) subverts the samurai film genre with Hana Yori mo Naho (a.k.a. Hana). The film stars Okada Junichi of pop group V6 as Sozaemon, a samurai who journeys from Matsumoto to Edo with the tried-and-true goal of avenging his father’s death. Sozaemon may have revenge as a goal, but his days [...]

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Contrary to what one may gather from the title, Korea’s latest romantic comedy Operation Makeover is not about changing appearances, but rather changing fates. Life is always full of “what ifs”, and this film asks a simple question: what if you could go back in time to your first love? Knowing how things work out [...]

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Hacker put judge in prison? It was actually a title of a news published by The Inquirer . I thought at first the title was wrong and I silently suggested that it should be “Judge put hacker in prison”. But after reading the article, I was finally convinced that it was right. Okay. How did [...]

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The success of the movie NANA, starring Nakashima Mika and Miyazaki Aoi as two girls with the same name but contrasting personalities, has paved the way for its sequel. Nakashima, who received best newcomer awards and a best actress nomination for NANA, reprises her role for NANA 2, alongside a new line-up of young stars. [...]

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The Manalang’s WP-Amazon plugin really helps me a lot in converting my blog traffic into Dollar. But when I upgraded the engine of this blog to the latest version of the WordPress (WordPress 2.1), lot of plugins installed are now broken, which includes the Manalang’s WP-Amazon plugins. However, I didn’t uninstalled the plugin from this [...]

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