Mother-to-be Song Yoon-ah has a new movie coming out, in which she stars as a single mother to young Kim Hyang-gi. The film held its press conference and preview screening in Seoul on December 29.

And aie, it looks like it’s the kind of movie to start you bawling halfway through and not let up until the end, since the cute mother-daughter relationship soon finds itself endangered when Song Yoon-ah is diagnosed with a fatal illness. I usually steer clear of tearjerkers like this because the setup is almost indulgently sad (the trailer below reminds me of the old Choi Jin-shil tearjerker The Letter), but for some reason I feel drawn to this one. Might be just the thing to spur on a cathartic crying session.

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Cha Seung-won (City Hall) and Song Yoon-ah (On Air) have a new thriller coming out titled Secret [시크릿], which has just announced its release date as December 3. The film comes courtesy of the writer-director behind the successful 2007 thriller Seven Days, which starred Lost’s Kim Yun-jin and A Million’s Park Hee-soon.

The secret of the film’s title refers to Cha Seung-won’s desperate actions as a detective who covers up the evidence of a murder left by his wife (Song Yoon-ah). The movie’s poster, above, shows the detective upon the discovery of the evidence at the crime scene. He becomes torn between wanting to save his wife from suspicion and his conscience. (Watch the preview below.)

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It hasn’t been long since actress Song Yoon-ah (On Air) wore her own wedding dress at her May wedding to actor Sol Kyung-gu, and now she takes on another Wedding Dress [웨딩드레스], which will be her first project as a married woman.

Wedding Dress is described as a weepie film centering around a single mom suffering from cancer raising an eight-year-old daughter; her daughter is played by child actress Kim Hyang-gi, who is adorable — she was the precocious little girl in When Night Comes and Bad Couple. Filming the project is the same director of films For Horowitz and The Truck, Kwon Hyung-jin.

The movie begins filming July 15.

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Song Yoon-ah and Sol Kyung-gu in “Lost in Love”

Another A-list celebrity couple ties the knot! Song Yoon-ah (On Air) and Sol Kyung-gu (Public Enemy Returns, Voice of a Murder, Silmido) — who have starred together in two movies — have just announced that they are getting married on May 28.

The couple met in 2002 when starring in Jail Breakers [광복절 특사], then re-teamed for 2006’s Lost in Love [사랑을 놓치다]. However, they weren’t dating at that time, as Song Yoon-ah explains: “We acted in two films together, but at that time, we didn’t call each other on a personal level. By some fate, we met again much later and started dating then.”

The two haven’t yet picked (or announced, at least) their wedding locale or time, but they’re thinking of bucking the celebrity trend and opting not to hold the ceremony at a hotel. “We want a simple wedding,” Song said.

May is a busy marrying month — Ricky Kim just got hitched, Jung Tae-woo held his ceremony today, and Lee Seon-kyun will be marrying long-time girlfriend Jeon Hye-jin in two weeks. Congrats to the couples.

Via Yonhap News

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Following MBC’s Acting Awards on the 30th, the 31st saw awards ceremonies for the other two stations. First up: 2008 SBS Drama Awards. (KBS coming up next!)

The big news is that the SBS Daesang was awarded to the very young but very talented Moon Geun-young for her gender-bending role in the gorgeously shot historical drama Painter in the Wind. It had been widely speculated that her co-star, shunned star Park Shin-yang, might not appear after being shut out of the nominations and criticized for his exorbitant asking fees, and he in fact did not show. (I think Park’s management did not handle the War of Money pay situation well, but making a point to blackball him from SBS seems like scapegoating to me.)

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