Friday, April 30, 2010

(Sin-de-rel-la Eon-ni)


The day before shooting ended at 5 a.m. in the morning. The shoot continued again later on the same day at 11 a.m. During the afternoon the outdoor shoot was put to a halt due to the rain. For half the day she waited in the car for the rain to stop. Things resumed at around 9 p.m. The temperature suddenly dropped on the open set of KBS' "Cinderella's Sister" which is built next to a lake. While shooting the drama, it repeats the feeling of being on the field or on a stakeout.

Seo Woo, well-known for her role in the critically acclaimed movie "Paju" which won awards and opened at several prestigious international film festivals including the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) and at the Rotterdam Film Festival, sat down to speak with 10Asia about her current role as Hyo-seon in

My Lovely Sam-So

My Lovely Sam-Soon was the most popular TV drama of 2005, and it's easy to see why, though the series doesn't fully work for me. Kim Seon-A is totally convincing and likable as the title character: a brassy, unglamorous, vulgar young woman with her own mind, but who still feels the tug of social expectations. They are her expectations too.
Kim Sam-soon is a high school graduate who went to France to study as a pastry chef. Returning to Korea, she acquired a boyfriend, a spoiled and disturbingly pretty rich boy. When she discovers, at the beginning of Episode 1, that he has been cheating on her casually, she flees to bawl her eyes out in a restroom stall. A knock on the stall door interrupts her; she learns that she'd run into a men's restroom by mistake. The man who knocked is another disturbingly pretty rich young man, Hyeon Jin-heon (played by Hyeon Bin), and even if you hadn't seen him in the opening credits, you'd know by the conventions of TV drama that he's the one. The question, as Sam-soon flees again, is how to get from this embarrassing first meeting to Happily Ever After.
Before you know it, Sam-soon has stumbled into a job as pastry chef in Jin-heon's chic restaurant, so you know that it's only a matter of time -- sixteen episodes, to be exact. All they have to do is get past Jin-heon's Gorgon of a mother, President Na Hyun-sook (Na Moon-hee); his former true love Yoo Hee-jin, returned from several years in California (Jung Ryeo-won); Henry Kim, the studly Korean-American doctor (Daniel Henney) who followed Hee-Jin to Korea from California; and all the other obstacles that a talented and sadistic writer can throw at them.
Another obstacle, of course, is Sam-soon's age: she's on the verge of 30. In Korea (and not only there) she's no longer prime meat in the marriage market, even if she weren't slightly plump, loud, and stubbornly self-willed. Even so, she has three disturbingly pretty, rich, younger men pursuing her. (I don't remember the third one's name. He's mainly a fall guy: every time he and Sam-soon sit down together in the hotel lounge for a lust-filled chat, a jealous Heon-bin intervenes and sends him on his way.) She isn't really overweight, just a normal Korean woman instead of a supermodel, and her appeal to men is more realistic than surprising. This clash between romantic fantasy and reality is the force that drives the series.
I don't have space to do justice to all the characters who thread in and out of Sam-soon's life, from her widowed mother to her glamorous, divorced older sister; from the restaurant staff to President Na Hyun-sook's icy lieutenant. There are more, all performed beautifully by the fine cast, except for Daniel Henney as Henry Kim, the studly Korean-American oncologist. He's game, but wooden; still, his model's good looks ensure that he's going to turn up in more TV dramas (and commercials, and Buddha only knows what else), despite his still practically non-existent Korean. Sweetest of all is Sam-soon's late father, who loved and encouraged her all her life, and who turns up often in flashbacks and Sam-soon's fantasy. In Sam-soon, Heon-bin like so many men is falling in love with a woman much like his mother; Heon-bin, unfortunately, is not at all like Sam-soon's father. That may be why, despite her attraction to him, she can still look at Heon-bin with a critical, even cynical eye.
My Lovely Sam-Soon, then, takes some believable and interesting characters and runs them through the meat grinder of TV drama conventions, from raucous slapstick to gothic melodrama. By the sixth episode I often felt as if I were sitting through the sixteen-hour director's cut of My Sassy Girl, but I was hooked by then and had to learn how it all turned out. The ending is surprisingly realistic, resisting the temptation and pressure for a Cinderella resolution; so it satisfied me even though it might not please everyone. What I love most is a long scene near the midpoint, between Sam-soon and Henry in a hotel lounge in Chejudo. Upstairs, Heon-bin has been reunited with his lost love Hee-jin, whom Henry also loves. Henry speaks no Korean. Sam-soon sizes him up and then, while he beams at her uncomprehendingly, she tells him (in French, Korean, and bits of English), about the role of pastry and memory in Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past, a book she learned about during her training in France.
Can you imagine a long, funny, moving dialogue on literature and love, conducted in three languages, in an American TV comedy? Me neither, but it works. I only wished for more scenes like it. Still, because of the hodgepodge of incidents and styles, there's probably something in My Lovely Sam-Soon for everybody. (Review by Duncan Mitchel)
My Lovely Sam-Soon ("Nae ireum-eun Sam-Soon"). Alternate title: "My Name is Samsoon." 16 episodes. Written by Kim Do-woo. Produced by Kim Yoon-chul. Starring Kim Seon-A, Hyun Bin, Jung Ryeo-won, Daniel Henney, Na Moon-hee, Kim Ja-ok, Lee Ah-hyun, Suh Ji-hee, Yoon Ye-hee, Lee Kyu-han, Kwon Hae-hyo. Aired on MBC in Korea from June 1 - July 21, 2005 on Wednesday and Thursday nights at 9:55pm. Official website

the cofee prince

Coffee Prince Number 1 (2007, MBC miniseries)
Coffee Prince Number 1 is probably the most enjoyable Korean TV drama I've watched so far. I loved Ruler of Your Own World, but it was darker, more serious, more dramatic. Coffee Prince is pure fun, and its popularity shows that many Koreans agree with me.
The premise is that Go Eun Chan (Yoon Eun-hye, Palace), by default the head of her family after her father died when she was 16, is often mistaken for a boy. She wears her hair fairly short, dresses ambiguously, knows Tae Kwon Do, does delivery work, and eats like a horse. Choi Han Gyeol (Gong Yoo, One Fine Day), handsome scion of a wealthy family, is being pressured to marry by his imperious grandmother (Kim Young-ok). He hires Eun Chan, whom he takes for male, to pretend to be his gay lover. Behaving outrageously in various hotel lobbies, the two scare off all the women his grandmother sends him.
Grandmother then raises the stakes. If Han Gyeol won't marry or go to work for the family company, he'll have to support himself; she takes away his care and gives him notice of eviction for his expensive rooftop apartment before he agrees to manage Coffee Prince, a rundown coffee shop in a student district, and increase its profits. Eun Chan wheedles him into hiring "him," and before long they find themselves powerfully drawn to each other. His interest in a cute boy understandably disturbs Han Gyeol, who reacts as if he were a closeted gay man: he alternately tries to keep Eun Chan close, and to drive "him" away.
Why is Han Gyeol so reluctant to marry? Several online articles I've seen describe him as a "playboy," but he's never shown dating women. He's in love with Han Yoo Joo (Chae Jeong-an, Emperor From the Sea), a beautiful and brilliant artist who has an on-again, off-again love with Han Gyeol's cousin Han Seong (Lee Seon-gyoon, White Tower), a musician and producer. As the series begins, Yoo Joo has just returned from a long stay in New York, where she was involved professionally and romantically with a man called DK. Now she's back and wants to start over with Han Seong, who (reasonably enough) doesn't quite trust her. But she's not in love with Han Gyeol either. By chance, Go Eun Chan delivers milk to Han Seong's house. She and Han Seong bond over Han Seong's sheepdog Ssulja, and become good friends.
As usual in a series, Coffee Prince includes a constellation of secondary characters, ranging from Eun Chan's feckless mother (Park Won-sook, Tomato) and the wacky butcher, Mr. Goo (Lee Han-wee, Love and Hate), who wants to marry her; and Eun Chan's more glamorous younger sister Eun Sae (Han Ye-in), who wants to be a star. Then there's the Coffee Prince team, assembled like disciples by Han Gyeol and Eun Chan: Han Gyeol's old friend Chin Ha Rim (Kim Dong-wook), who fancies himself a ladies' man but also seems interested in Eun Chan; the hunky but slow Hwang Min Yeop (Lee Eon, who tragically died in a motorcycle accident in 2008), who's in love with Eun Chan's sister and pursues her doggedly despite her best efforts to drive him away; the mysterious Master of Waffles No Jeon Ki (Kim Jae-wook), who keeps muttering in Japanese; and Manager Hong, the slovenly manager of the shop, whom Grandmother keeps on as co-manager to keep Han Gyeol on his toes.
Writers Lee Jeong-ah and Jang Hyeon-joo keep things steaming along entertainingly, and for the most part they keep the comedy in character, without much of the pointless slapstick or asides that disrupt some comedy-dramas. I'm also forever grateful that they never resort to a car or other accident to engender a crisis and permit tearful reconciliations and confessions, as in so many dramas. Some early plot points, like Eun Chan's supersensitive nose for smells, are introduced early on and then forgotten; on first meeting Eun Chan, Ha Rim calls "him" My Chan and exclaims over "his" cuteness, but after a few episodes he's chasing after young women and trying to give Eun Chan advice on handling the babes.
The story doesn't really come together until Han Gyeol and Eun Chan begin to fall in love. Most writers would, I think, have let Han Gyeol know that Eun Chan was a girl after no more than one episode of homosexual panic, but Lee and Jang stretch it over several episodes, and make Han Gyeol's anxiety wholly convincing. He sees a clueless old doctor, who gives him medicine to cure him of his tendencies. "You're gay, right?" he asks Eun Chan. "But I'm not. So stop seducing me."
"Who called me over in the middle of the night?" she points out.
"Let's be sworn brothers," he tells her. She refuses his evasion at first, then gives in. In voice over, each then tells us that even if it only means being a brother, he won't have to leave the other's side. But still Han Gyeol runs hot and cold, firing Eun Chan and then running to get "him" back. (One beautiful bit: Han Gyeol tells Eun Chan a major family secret. Sitting behind him, where he can't see her, she stretches out her hands and mimes embracing him, comforting him, because she doesn't dare to touch him. Yoon puts immense longing into that gesture.)
As more and more of the other characters are let in on the secret of Eun Chan's real sex, the tension builds. It's helped a lot by the wonderful chemistry between the leads, who are wholly convincing as new lovers delighted with each other. Gong Yoo resembles a younger Ju Jin-mo (Musa, Happy Ending), and he actually seems to grow up during the series, from a pretty but shallow young man to a strong but gentle adult. There's one lovely scene where Han Gyeol visits his grandmother, who's seriously ill and looks it. They bicker pleasurably, and I realized that Eun Chan is a younger version of Granny. Then Han Gyeol climbs into her bed and pillows her head on his arm, saying that no man had done that since Grandfather.
Yoon Eun-hye has a hard job. Typically in cross-dressing roles, the deception is not allowed to be too convincing: the audience is not allowed to succumb to the illusion that the actor or actress could pass for the other sex. Nor will be a performer be hired who looks the part too well. Yoon Eun-hye says she studied men's movements and body language, but maybe the director toned her down. She never quite persuaded me that women would chase her out of a women's sauna when she tried to make a good delivery, but she does have an androgynous charm and earnestness that makes her lovable. And after her femme makeover in episode 5, Go Eun Chan looks like a drag queen. She actually looks more like a boy when she's wearing a dress and full makeup than she does in trousers and t-shirt.
It doesn't really matter, though, because Coffee Prince Number One is a romantic fantasy, not a realistic story. It works very well on that level. Best of all, from my point of view, is that the story has no villain, and even the most foolish characters aren't clowns but believable people with reasons for their folly. The characters vary somewhat in their likability, but all are good at heart, even the unreliable Yoo Joo. As the literary critic Marvin Mudrick once said, nothing in life or literature is more interesting and exciting than goodness. (Review by Duncan Mitchel)
Coffee Prince Number 1 ("Keopi Peurinseu 1-hojeom"). Alternate title: "Coffee Prince's Flagship Store." 18 episodes. Written by Lee Jung Ah & Jang Hyun Joo. Produced by Lee Yoon Jung. Starring Yoon Eun-hye, Gong Yoo, Lee Sun-kyoon, Chae jung-an, Kim Chang-wan, Kim Dong-wook, Kim Jae-wook, Lee Eon. First aired on MBC in Korea from July 2 - August 28, 2007 on Monday and Tuesday nights at 9:55pm. Official website (in Korean): click here. Episodes can be downloaded for a fee here.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Dream (SBS, 2009)



Alternative Title: 드림 / Dream
Genre: Romance, Sports
Film Date: July, 2009
Total Episodes: 20
Korea Casts:Choi Yeo Jin, Hong Ah Reum , Joo Jin Mo, Kim Bum, Oh Dal-Soo, Park Sang Won , Son Dam Bi
Description:
Lee Jang Suk spent some time in a juvenile detention center for stealing wallets from unsuspecting strangers. After he gets out, he meets a sports agent, Nam Jae Il, who helps him achieve his dreams of becoming a top boxer.

Kim Bum’s Bi Sang (Fly Up) 2009 Movie.


Kim Bum’s Bi Sang (Fly Up) 2009 Movie. February 12, 2010Posted by ashtoh in Bae Soo Bin, Bi Sang/Emergency, Kim Bum, Kim Byul, Lee Chae Young. Tags: , , , , trackback

Thanks to ngothuyan at youtube, we get to watch Kim Bum latest movie online. But sadly, there is no English sub yet. So let’s be patient and wait for someone or somebody who is generous to sub it ^^. In the mean time, why don’t we enjoy the movie first. I think we will understand just by watching his deep expression.
[Indo] Ucapan terima kasih harus diberikan untuk user ngothuyan di youtube. Dikarenakan olehnya, kita baru bisa menonton filem yang sudah ditunggu-tunggu di tahun 2009. Sayangnya, sekarang ini masih tidak ada terjemahan ke bahasa Inggris. Jadi marilah kita bersabar dahulu dan menunggu seseorang yang baik hati untuk menerjemahkannya. Untuk saat ini, mari kita saksikan dulu filem ini. Saya rasa kalian pun akan mengerti dengan hanya melihat ekspresi wajahnya yang sangat dalam.

Friday, April 23, 2010

STILL MARRY ME


Still, Marry Me

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STILL, MARRY ME 아직도 결혼하고 싶은 여자

Also known as: The Woman Who Still Wants To Marry / City Lovers
Airing time: January 20 ‘2010
Director: Kim Min Sik (김민식), Go Dong Sun
Screenwriter: Kim In Young
Broadcast Station: MBC
Episodes: 16
Broadcast Times: Wednesdays & Thursdays 9:55 PM (Korea time)
OFFICIAL SITE
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CAST

SYNOPSIS:
Lee Shin-young couldn’t wait to get married when she was 32. But she’s still single at the age of 36!
She hasn’t found a soul mate yet nor has she found success in her career. Her unforgiving personality is worse than ever. Now she’s about to learn some hard lessons about life at the age of 36!

SUBTITLES:
ZIPPED SUBTITLES – Episodes 1-16# Wanna thank us?
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CREDITS:

Episode 1 TOP | Echo | MMiSa | Queen
Main Translator: meju
Spot Translator: munchinghippo
Timing QC: julier
Editor/QC: melica
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

Episode 2 TOP | Khai | Echo | MMiSa | 720p CEO
Main Translators: Litmusify, hot_saranghae
Spot Translator: dw4p
Timer: wichitawx
Editor/QC: annchong
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

Episode 3 TOP | Alpha | DokGoDie
Main Translators: hot_saranghae, munchinghippo
Spot Translator: munchinghippo
Timers: hisashino, casajuve
Editor/QC: szhoang
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

Episode 4 TOP | Alpha
Main Translators: jmk012800, ai*
Spot Translator: munchinghippo
Timers: avi14, hisashino
Editor/QC: annchong
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

Episode 5 TOP
Main Translators: SHALOM, munchinghippo
Spot Translator: munchinghippo
Timer: wichitawx
Editor/QC: szhoang
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

Episode 6 TOP
Main Translators: iJiien, jmk012800
Spot Translator: meju
Timer: avi14
Editor/QC: melica
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

Episode 7 TOP/Echo
Main Translator: munchinghippo
Spot Translators: soluna413, meju
Timer: dOtcOm
Editor/QC: szhoang
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

Episode 8 TOP | MAX
Main Translator: meju
Timer: julier
Editor/QC: snoopyvkd
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

Episode 9 TOP | DokGoDie
Main Translator: meju
Timer: julier
Editor/QC: melica
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

Episode 10 TOP | HAN
Main Translator: soluna413
Spot Translator: meju
Timer: hitomi83
Editor/QC: szhoang
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

Episode 11 TOP | HAN
Main Translators: lilshinhwafreak, meju
Spot Translator: dw4p
Timer: szhoang
Editor/QC: annchong
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

EPISODE 12 TOP | HAN
Main Translator: munchinghippo
Timer: hitomi83
Editor/QC: doozy
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

EPISODE 13 TOP | HAN
Main Translators: lilshinhwafreak, meju
Spot Translator: soluna413
Timer: casajuve
Editor/QC: annchong
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

*since there are too many glitches in TOP version for both ep 14-15, we’re only using the HAN version. These two episodes are best viewed using Media Player Classic with vobsub installed.

EPISODE 14 HAN
Main Translator: soluna412
Spot Translators: meju, songbird
Timer: julier
Editor/QC: annchong
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

EPISODE 15 HAN
Main Translator: aceyyy
Spot Translator: soluna413
Timer: eully
Editor/QC: annchong
Coordinators: mily2, ay_link

EPISODE 16 (FINAL) TOP | HAN (*NEW*) Wanna thank us?
Main Translators: Litmusify, soluna413
Spot Translators: soluna413, dw4p
Timer: casajuve
Editor/QC: Hanjae

YOURE BEAUTIFUL


Title: 미남이시네요 / You’re Beautiful
Chinese Title : 原来是美男啊
Also known as: You’re Handsome, A.N.JELL
Genre: Romance, comedy
Episodes: 16
Broadcast Network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2009-Oct-07 to 2009-Nov-26
Air time: Wednesday & Thursday 21:55

Synopsis

Tae Kyung and On Yu are in search of a new member for their idol group, A.N.JELL. However, Mi Nam suffers an injury at the last moment. So Mi Nyu, his twin sister, is asked to step in for her brother. The rest of the drama follows the behind-the-scenes life of an idol group.

Cast

Jang Geun Suk as Hwang Tae Kyung
Park Shin Hye Go Mi Nam (Male) / Go Mi Nyu (Female)
Lee Hong Ki as Kang On Yu / Jeremy
Jung Yong Hwa as Kang Shin Woo

Extended cast

UEE as Yoo He Yi
Bae Geu Rin as Sa Yu Ri (Fan club president)
Kim In Kwon as Ma Hoon Yi (Mi Nam’s manager)
Choi Ran as Choi Mi Ja (Mi Nam & Mi Nyu’s aunt)
Kim Sung Ryung as Mo Hwa Ran
Jung Chan as President Ahn
Choi Soo Eun as Wang Kko Di
Tae Hwang as staff
Yoo Seung Ho (cameo, ep9)

BOYZ OVER FLOWER SEASON 2




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