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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Chihwaseon’s screening, and the audience included a sizeable contingent of Korean-speaking patrons. This linguistic divide proved a tad discomforting during the question-and-answer session that followed the movie: Kwon-taek’s replies were often witty and poignant, but his translator (Professor Kyung Hyun Kim of the University of California Irvine) struggled to keep pace with the director. Often, by the time the English-speaking audience had received its version of the directors comments, the Korean-speaking filmgoers were already in stitches or gasping with delight...

Author: By Bernard L. Parham, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Korean Film Director Kwon-taek Wows HFA | 3/10/2005 | See Source »

...mention his prolificacy, as he nears his hundredth film—are simply extraordinary. The first American scholarly work on Korean film proposed as its title a simple apposition: Im Kwon Taek: the Making of a Korean National Cinema. Domestic ticket sales confirm what Kyung Hyun Kim, the UCLA professor who wrote the book in question, suggests: that the significance of Im’s work in South Korea is not to be underestimated...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis and Moira G. Weigel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: On the Radar | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

Wednesday, March 2. Yu Hyun-mok’s Obalt’an. (South Korea, 1960). 9 p.m. Harvard Film Archive. Tickets $8; students and seniors $6. Tickets at the Harvard Film Archive...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 2/24/2005 | See Source »

...North's recent announcement does put South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun's government in a bind. Seoul is deeply committed to its policy of economic engagement with Pyongyang. Since October 2002, it has transferred at least $900 million in cash, products and services to the North, according to government figures and Hyundai Asan, a company involved in joint North-South industrial projects. This year's transfers?if a planned donation of 500,000 tons of fertilizer goes ahead?will likely be at least $350 million. The new Kaesong industrial park, just north of the Demilitarized Zone, is the most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walking the Tightrope | 2/20/2005 | See Source »

What about Tony Leung and Wong Kar-Wai, the powerhouse art-film duo who between them have won eight Oscar equivalents in Hong Kong and two Cannes Film Festival awards? There’s also Jeon Ji-hyun, whose romantic comedies have set her up to be Korea’s next leading female actress. And Stephen Chow, Hong Kong’s answer to Ben Stiller, who writes unconventional and intelligent comedies. Apparently, we just aren’t ready to see Asian people in everyday life, when they’re not in period films depicting them recklessly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Made In China | 12/15/2004 | See Source »

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