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...troops moving to Iraq," says Defense Ministry spokesman Kim Jong Chan, "could give our information to terrorists." But the deployment is controversial domestically and the voluntary gag helps prevent the issue from becoming an even larger political football. "This is very close to media censorship," says Park Tae Jeon, editor in chief of Pressian, a popular online news site that has refused to accept restrictions. "If we go along with it, we won't be able to inform the public if unfortunate things happen to our troops." In reality, that's less likely in Kurdish-controlled Arbil, which...
...grants up to $580,000 to POWs when they return home, so a minibusiness has sprung up. Brokers living on the Chinese border offer to find POWs and spirit them out-if families pay fees of at least $25,000. But sometimes getting across the border isn't enough. Jeon Yong Il, another South Korean POW who worked in a mine for decades, swam across the Tumen River into China last June along with his North Korean son, daughter-in-law and her mother. But when the group asked for help at the South Korean embassy in Beijing, they were...
...Gyun Woo (Cha Tae-hyun) sees a drunk girl (Jeon Ji-hyun) late one night on the subway. He watches her throw up over two fellow travelers and collapse, but not before she's called him "Honey" on the way down. Says Gyun Woo in narrative: "This one word just screwed up my life...
...takes the girl to a motel to sober up and that starts a fractious relationship. Jeon's character goes through more mood swings than there are versions of Microsoft's operating system, and the hapless Gyun has to absorb them all. She drinks to oblivion, slaps him around, makes him exchange his sneakers for her high-heeled shoes as they walk through the park. It turns out she's still grieving over a previous relationship; Gyun guesses at what haunts her, but can't fully understand...
...acting that lifts this modest material. Jeon, in her third film, makes her discordant ? and physical comedy make the mutual attraction credible and funny. Like many Korean movies, the actors flit effortlessly from unabashed slapstick to unconsolable morbidity...