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Jeon Do-yeon

LKL Weekly Tweets, 2009-10-12

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by Philip Gowman on 12 October, 2009

in About LKL, Jeon Do-yeon, KAAUK, Park Chan-wook, Twitter Tweets

Appropriately, Park Chan-wook cast a blood-red shadow as he answered questions after the screening of Thirst yesterday. #
Soju and tornadoes at Corean Chilli with the KAA. This is the way to plan a gig! #
Photo taken with Park Chan-wook. All's right with the world. #
Why do Koreans think it's so macho to drink Soju? Beats [...]

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Easter celebrity round-up

22 March 2008 Celebs
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It’s been a while since I rounded up some of the celebrity news as an excuse for posting some pictures, so here’s some recent items:
First – Brits with Korean connections:
Korea Beat has a translation of an interview with David Beckham, recently in Korea with LA Galaxy

Kate Moss gets an advertising contract with Korean fashion brand [...]

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Secret Sunshine at the BFI London Film Festival

29 October 2007 Autumn K-Film 2007
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Note: this post contain spoilers
It was slightly disappointing to see Screen One of the Odeon West End (seating capacity: 500) somewhat under half full for the London premiere of Lee Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine last Monday. By contrast, No Mercy for the Rude, a film which (from its description at least) is much more in the [...]

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Deadly Elves and other recent tabloid stories

28 August 2007 Bada
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It’s a while since I did a round-up of celebrity news, which means that I’ve almost forgotten all the things I was going to mention, and lost most of the links that I was going to use. So before things get completely out of hand, here’s one of my not-so-regular posts shamelessly plundering the celebrity [...]

Companies:
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Jeon Do-yeon wins at Cannes

28 May 2007 Film
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Congratulations to Jeon Do-yeon on winning best actress at Cannes. She was an early front-runner in the competition, and just for once those early hopes of success were justified.
For the first third of its nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time, “Secret Sunshine” feels like a slightly somber fish-out-of-water comedy (reports AO Scott at the New York Times), [...]

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Lee Chang-dong’s Secret Sunshine gets early thumbs-up

7 May 2007 Film
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Probably the most eagerly awaited Korean film of 2007, at least by me, is Lee Chang-dong’s fourth: Secret Sunshine, or Milyang (밀양). I’ve admired his first three for the issues they tackle and the superb acting: Lee has had access to some top stars for his films – Sol Kyung-gu and Moon So-ri for Oasis [...]

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Darcy’s predictions for 2007

11 January 2007 2006 year-end posts
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It’s getting to be the case that the more interesting stuff over on Darcy’s site is in his What’s New page rather than his forums.
Here are his predictions for 2007:

Park Jin-pyo’s VOICE OF A MURDERER is going to be a major critical and popular hit (at least 6 million tickets)
There will be about 80 Korean [...]

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