Posts Tagged ‘Uhm Jung-hwa’
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Uhm Jung-hwa hits it big with Dancing Queen
Here’s a look at the first big movie hit of the new year, the feel-good comedy Dancing Queen, starring Hwang Jung-min as a Seoul mayoral candidate and Uhm Jung-hwa as his wife who still hasn’t given up her dream to become a singer, well into her ajumma years. How cute. I love that they turned... More »
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Uhm Jung-hwa turns Dancing Queen for the big screen
Sometimes movie descriptions are woefully bland and don’t do the project justice, and sometimes they’re delightfully vivid from the first sentence. It’s the latter case for Dancing Queen, the new movie starring pop queen Uhm Jung-hwa and Hwang Jung-min: The wife of a candidate for Seoul mayor becomes a dance singer without her husband’s knowledge,... More »
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18th Icheon Chunsa Film Festival
Saturday, September 18, was the day of the 18th Icheon Chunsa Film Festival, held in the city of Icheon in Kyeonggi Province. The overwhelming winner was the film Moss, a crime thriller from the director of Silmido starring Jung Jae-young, Park Hae-il, Yoo Jun-sang, and Yoo Sun. It picked up awards in seven categories, including... More »
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April Movie Releases
(waterleaf has compiled a list of films releasing this month, the trailers for which you can watch below. Enjoy the sneak preview. –javabeans) “폭풍전야” (Stormy Night aka Lovers Vanished) This is a story about a man (Kim Nam Gil), who after being betrayed by love is falsely accused and put in prison. He escapes with... More »
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Choi Kang-hee plays Bestseller’s ghost
Choi Kang-hee is taking a small but crucial role in Uhm Jung-hwa‘s upcoming horror-thriller movie Bestseller, as the voice of a ghost. According to director Lee Jung-ho, she is a personal friend of him and another producer, and had shown interest in the film from its script stages, which is how she came to join... More »
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Uhm Jung-hwa’s Bestseller
Uhm Jung-hwa has a new movie coming out, which has released these stills. The thriller is called Bestseller, which recently wrapped filming, and revolves around a bestselling author who encounters a mysterious incident and chases after the truth. Her character is a top novelist who had been accused of plagiarism in the past, and works... More »
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Opening red carpet at the 14th Pusan International Film Festival
On October 8, the 14th Pusan International Film Festival, or PIFF, opened in Busan. (Yes, the city takes a different official spelling than the film festival. Blame inconsistent Romanization.) As the largest film festival in Korea, it drew a large list of attendees, as you can see from the long list of red-carpet walkers. It... More »
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Uhm Jung-hwa turns bestselling author
For a movie, that is; it’s not a case of singer and movie star Uhm Jung-hwa putting out her own book. She stars in the new movie Bestseller, which is the debut feature film for director Lee Jung-ho, who worked as assistant director under Jung Yoon-chul (The Man Who Was Superman). In it, she plays... More »
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The man who can’t get ratings
This is an interesting article, in that it looks at the low numbers faced by current Monday-Tuesday drama The Man Who Can’t Get Married and analyzes it from a cultural perspective. Most low-rated dramas (that aren’t disasters of writing/acting) tend to explain their disappointing numbers in terms of being too complicated for the average viewer... More »
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The Man Who Can’t Get Married: Episode 1
First of all, much thanks to Javabeans for letting me commandeer her site so I could post these recaps and putting up with all my questions. Second, I have to say that I’m really enjoying this show much more than I expected. I am watching the show ahead of where I’m writing my recaps, so... More »
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