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Wandering the Han River

Now, this sounds like a movie I’d watch:

Jung Ryeo Won, 26, (My Name Is Kim Samsoon, What Star Did You Come From) has been cast opposite Jung Jae Young (My Son, Welcome to Dongmakgol), 37, in the upcoming film Wandering Mr. Kim.

The film has attached Kang Woo Seok, described as a “Midas touch director” (Shadows in the Palace, I Like it Hot, Hwang Jini, Sarangni) as a producer. It will be directed by Lee Hae Joon, who made a splash and won Best Director at the Blue Dragon Awards with his 2006 film Like A Virgin.

In the film, a man (Jung Jae Young) attempts suicide by throwing himself into the Han River, but instead winds up on Bamseom, a small uninhabited island in the Han River. After failing attempts to escape the island, he gradually realizes there’s hope to life as he grows accustomed to island life; the “help” he scrawls into the sand changes to “hello.”

Jung Ryeo Won plays the socially isolated woman whom he meets while on Bamseom, and while he wanders the island alone, she wanders her small room alone, using the Internet as her sole portal to the outside world in a kind of “digital xenophobia.”

The movie films later this year and plans for a release early next year, but first Jung Jae Young will be promoting his next release, Kang Chul Joong: Public Enemy 1-1 (in which he plays an unbalanced cop), which comes out on June 19. Meanwhile, this will be Jung Ryeo Won’s second movie after last year’s My Girlfriend Has Two Faces.

Mk.co.kr, Hankyung

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Misty Blue - “한쪽 뺨으로 웃는 여자” (The girl who laughs out of one side of her mouth)
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44th Baeksang Arts Awards


Best Actress winners Yoon Eun Hye (drama), Kim Min Hee (film)

The 44th Baeksang Arts Awards were held in Seoul on April 24, handing out top honors to the films and television programs of the previous year.

Big winners included films The Chaser and Forever the Moment (aka The Best Moment In Our Lives); Yoon Eun Hye won for her trend-setting turn as Go Eun Chan in last year’s smash drama Coffee Prince, while War of Money took home Best Drama.

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MC Mong - “옛날 옛적에” (Once upon a time) from his recently released fourth album. [ Download ]

 
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Sibling love


Lee Yeon Hee (right) and sis

 
Fans are always curious to note family resemblances between celebrities and their lesser-known siblings; every now and then you’ll catch wind of another star’s sibling being identified. Their pictures circulate on the internet, engendering audience response that generally falls into the “What great genetics!” category.

Young actress Lee Yeon Hee and her older sister are the latest such example. Go News and Newsen have put up the pictures and provided comparison shots, noting that her older sister, who operates an online clothing store for which she also models, is just as attractive as her younger sister.

Take a look at some other sibling pairings after the jump.

 


Lee Yeon Hee’s older sister

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Sweater - “바람” (wind) [ zShare download ]

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Jung Ryeo Won’s Sketchbook

Actress and former pop singer Jung Ryeo Won is publishing a picture-essay collection.

Similar to singer-actress Park Jiyoon’s photoessay compilation “Secret Garden”, Jung Ryeo Won’s Sketchbook contains drawings and writings that the actress herself has drawn/written.

As she’s a devoted Christian, there are messages that accompany the drawings that refer to her faith. She posted the notice on her cyworld page, and explained that her pictures were drawn purely out of enjoyment: “I haven’t received formal instruction, it’s just that I wanted to express myself.”

Jung Ryeo Won’s Sketchbook is planned to be released in bookstores, but no publication date has been given.

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Park Jiyoon - “겨울봄여름가을 그리고 다시 겨울 (Extended Edit)” (”Winter, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter Again”). This actually comes from a mini-album of instrumental tracks that are meant as a companion piece to Park Jiyoon’s photoessay collection, called simply “Background Music for Secret Garden.” [ zShare download ]

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News bites: December 6

Hm, nothing really catches my eye too much today. Here are just a few items in the news:

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Lee Soo Young - “시린” (cold) [ zShare download ]


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Hello Franceska / 안녕 프란체스카

 
Hehe, note that with Taereung National Village, I said I’d found a series to watch, not the series to watch. The great thing about watching shows that have long since finished airing is that now, I can watch without worrying about keeping pace with the new episodes every week. This was the second show whose first episode held my interest long enough for me to finish without stopping it halfway through.

 
Hello Franceska is funny. (The title, 안녕 프란체스카, could be read as either “hello” or “goodbye,” but I’ve seen it more readily translated as “hello,” so that’s what I’m using.)

Vampire comedy. Great two-word summary, huh?

Actually, what makes Hello Franceska entertaining isn’t so much the premise (pretty good), but its execution.

 
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Peterpan Complex - “안녕.” (”Goodbye.” Or I suppose, possibly “Hello,” but the song takes the goodbye meaning. Ironic, since I chose hello over goodbye just above, isn’t it? It’s all about context.)
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