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...ultimate challenge, however, is America. Friends' producers are negotiating the sale of the movie to the U.S. for coast-to-coast distribution, possibly before the end of the year. Miramax and 20th Century Fox have expressed interest in Little Match Girl and 2009, says Judy Ahn, international sales manager for Tube Entertainment, which is producing both films. Shiri director Kang Je Gyu is setting his sights even higher. There's a hush-hush project in the works, he says, which involves taking his production company to Hollywood to shoot. "We might get a big U.S. star," he says from...
...freak. But North Korea is so cut off from the rest of the world and information in the country is so tightly controlled that no one really knows for sure what this dynasty is like. "If you talk about Kim Jong Il or his family, you're dead," says Ahn Jung Sook, who worked as a journalist in Pyongyang before defecting to South Korea last year. Kim Jong Nam's mother is thought to be a former actress who left North Korea years ago and is now believed to be receiving psychiatric care in Russia. His childhood was spent...
...readers lap them up. His Son of the Fire sold 200,000 copies. Cho chopped off his own pinkie in public in 1974 after an ethnic Korean gunman from Japan shot the wife of dictator Park Chung Hee. Called danji (finger chopping) the gesture was immortalized by independence fighter Ahn Jung Geun, who in 1909 swore to assassinate Japanese political leaders, writing the oath in blood from the stump of his severed finger. (Japan's yakuza also cut off their own digits, but that's usually to atone for blunders.) Cho's idol is Kim Du Han, the legendary gangster...
...godfather is coy about Gangstergate and his own political connections, although he says he has received requests to "help out" in this year's presidential race. Politicians, he says with disgust, "use you and then get rid of you." Mobster Ahn Sang Min says he, too, has been approached by politicians seeking to fix the December election. Ahn, more menacing than dapper in olive sports jacket, black turtleneck and white slip-ons, is best known for ordering three murders?the last one while in prison. (He says he's now counseling young people.) Gangstergate? "They can't touch...
...There is no evidence the President's son, Kim Hong Il, himself a legislator, broke the law. His crime may be the company he keeps. Ahn says Cholla's pols should have stopped meeting gangsters once they became important figures in government: "What's the public going to think? If you remain friends with fists, they are going to ask you for favors." Koreans may root for gangsters in the movies, but nobody wants to see the fists getting their hands on real power...