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...first tried the e-mail stunt earlier this year with Friends, a star-studded buddy flick set in the port city of Pusan in the 1970s. Using a name list culled from an online site, his company, Korea Pictures, fired off a video pitch featuring the film's star Jang Dong Gun (sort of a South Korean Tom Cruise) to 1 million hard-core moviegoers. The movie this month became Korea's biggest blockbuster ever. It's hard to know exactly how much the Internet helped, but if an online pitch is going to work anywhere, it's in Korea...
...realistic moan-groan quotient and full-body bump and grind. Today, it seems, Korean directors can do just about anything. 1999's Yellow Hair was a sex shebang with orgies and lesbianism that left the viewer with third-degree eyeball burns. That year's Lies by Sun Woo-Jang was a sado-masochistic romance between a married sculptor and a high-school girl half his age, a class-act film that fashioned poetry from pornography and high-fived the current zeitgeist, though it is banned in Korea...
...Elise S. Jang '97-'98 also said the case was influenced by the press...
Enough of a disaster to topple its 49-year-old communist regime? Or to scare its reclusive "Dear Leader," Kim Jong Il, into a last-gasp invasion of South Korea? Last week Hwang Jang Yop, the highest-ranking North Korean official ever to defect to the South, rattled nerves with a warning that Kim's million-man army was preparing for a suicidal attack. What's more, the North "is capable of scorching" South Korea and Japan with nuclear and chemical weapons, according to an article published by South Korea's largest daily newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, which secretly obtained...
...sincere desire to end long-standing hostilities. North Korea reportedly also is asking for commitments of regular food aid shipments over the next several years before negotiations begin, an idea that both the U.S. and South Korea have rejected. Despite tough talk following damaging comments by defector Hwang Jang Yop that the North plans to "scorch" South Korea and Japan with chemical and nuclear weapons, it's clear that the rapidly disintegrating north desperately needs help fast. International relief organizations say the famine-ravaged country will be out of food sometime in May, putting an even greater urgency on negotiations...