Lee Beom-soo (On Air) sure is busy this year; he has yet another movie coming out soon, in which he stars with Kim Min-sun (Portrait of a Beauty) as an engaged couple. The action comedy is called Where Is Jung Seung-pil? [정승필 실종사건] and features Lee as a kidnapped man; these photos of the be-wigged couple are the ones carried around by Kim’s character in her wallet.

Sohn Chang-min (Woman of Matchless Beauty Park Jung-geum) plays a “lazy detective” in danger of being fired, who dreams of scoring an overnight success. When he is put in charge of a case of a disappeared financial planner (Lee Beom-soo), he determines to crack the case and sets out to survey the suspects. What ensues is a rather bungling investigation. The lively comedy features kidnapping, embezzlement, and an “accidental” murder.

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As previously mentioned, Lee Beom-soo and Lee Shi-young are starring in a new movie featuring Lee as a descendant of Joseon hero Hong Gil Dong in a movie called, aptly, Hong Gil Dong’s Descendants [홍길동의 후예]. While Hong Gil Dong is a 15th-century figure, the movie features his modern-day descendant who carries on the legacy of crime-fighting, while maintaining a cover as an average high school teacher as his day job.

These photos show some of the action filmed in Hanam, Kyunggi province, on September 9 when the film production held an open set day for reporters.

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What would happen if the descendants of Joseon-era Robin Hood-like hero Hong Gil Dong were alive today and secretly carrying on his legacy of punishing evildoers and helping the poor?

That’s the premise behind the new movie Hong Gil Dong’s Descendants [홍길동의 후예], and it stars Lee Beom-soo (On Air) as that descendant, We Got Married’s Lee Shi-young as his love interest, and comedian Kim Su-ro (Our School ET) as his nemesis.

If you’ve seen the recent drama version of Hong Gil Dong, you know the basic premise of the story (even if the Hong sisters’ writing is prone to the overly exaggerated comic gag). What Hong Gil Dong’s Descendants does is reinvent the basic tale of a chivalrous bandit and place him in modern times, crossing the old folk legend with a dash of Clark Kent-ian Superman.

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Kwon Sang-woo’s latest flick, tearjerker romance More Than Blue [슬픔보다 더 슬픈 이야기], enjoyed a strong White Day showing in theaters; its opening weekend sold more than 200,000 tickets — 147,000 of them on White Day alone. Pretty good for a single day’s take.

Wild horses couldn’t drag me to such an overindulgence of weepie angst — I can have my own pity parties at home, thankyouverymuch! — but I admit from the stills and previews that the film does look very pretty.

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Do you think Lee Bo-young is upset that her face is upside-down in BOTH photos?

With promotion heating up for the upcoming melodramatic film Story Sadder Than Sadness featuring Kwon Sang-woo, the latest dustup centers around the illegal leaking of a music video featuring a song from the soundtrack sung by Lee Seung-chul, “그런 사람 또 없습니다” (There’s nobody like that person). The video was leaked to an online portal site before it was officially ready and therefore hadn’t been through its final editing stages. A more finished version was released the following day (watch below) and the film will be in theaters on March 14.

The story seems pretty self-explanatory: Kwon Sang-woo and Lee Bo-young are in love, but for some reason she marries Lee Beom-soo instead.

I dunno; I’ve never been that excited about this movie, but doesn’t it look like just the kind of thing that would have been a hit in the mid/late ’90s? (i.e., indulgently tragic). Which is my way of saying that even if it turns out to be good, it feels pretty behind the times.

(Also, after seeing the MV, I kinda feel like I’ve already seen the movie. Right?)

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