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Kwon Hae-hyo
Kwon Hae-hyo (; born November 6, 1965) is a South Korean actor and activist. In addition to his acting career, he is also known for his activism. Kwon has been involved with a number of organizations advocating for political and social justice Social justice is justice in relation to the distribution of wealth, opportunities, and privileges within a society where individuals' rights are recognized and protected. In Western and Asian cultures, the concept of social justice has of ... causes, including the Unite Our People Movement Headquarters, the Abolish the Family Registry and Create Family Equality Organization, the Cultural Alliance for Peace at Daechuri, and the Minkahyup Human Rights Group. Filmography Film Television series Variety shows Hosting Theater Awards and nominations References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kwon, Hae-hyo 1965 births Living people South Korean male television actors South Korean male film actors South Korea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seoul
Seoul, officially Seoul Special Metropolitan City, is the capital city, capital and largest city of South Korea. The broader Seoul Metropolitan Area, encompassing Seoul, Gyeonggi Province and Incheon, emerged as the world's List of cities by GDP, sixth largest metropolitan economy in 2022, trailing behind New York metropolitan area, New York, Greater Tokyo Area, Tokyo, Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Paris metropolitan area, Paris, and London metropolitan area, London, and hosts more than half of South Korea's population. Although Seoul's population peaked at over 10 million, it has gradually decreased since 2014, standing at about 9.6 million residents as of 2024. Seoul is the seat of the Government of South Korea, South Korean government. Seoul's history traces back to 18 BC when it was founded by the people of Baekje, one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. During the Joseon dynasty, Seoul was officially designated as the capital, surrounded by the Fortress Wall of Seoul. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cyrano Agency
''Cyrano Agency'' () is a 2010 South Korean romantic comedy starring Uhm Tae-woong, Park Shin-hye, Choi Daniel, Park Chul-min and Lee Min-jung . It is a modern take on Edmond Rostand's 1897 play ''Cyrano de Bergerac'', which focuses on a dating agency that helps its customers win the hearts of the people they desire. Produced by Myung Films and distributed by Lotte Entertainment, the film was released on September 16, 2010, and ran for 121 minutes. The film was later remade into the Tamil-language as '' Idhu Enna Maayam''. Plot Lovelorn Kim Hyeon-gon (Song Sae-byeok), who has fallen for coffee shop worker Seon-ah (Ryu Hyun-kyung), learns about Cyrano Agency, a small organization set up by theatre actor Lee Byeong-hoon (Uhm Tae-woong) that claims 100% success in making people fall in love. Kim signs on, and the Cyrano team — Byeong-hoon's one-time drama student Min-yeong (Park Shin-hye), plus older Cheol-bin (Park Chul-min) and younger Jae-pil (Jeon Ah-min) — set to work, const ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Documentary
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and Media studies, media analyst Bill Nichols (film critic), Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in terms of "a filmmaking practice, a cinematic tradition, and mode of audience reception [that remains] a practice without clear boundaries". Research into information gathering, as a behavior, and the sharing of knowledge, as a concept, has noted how documentary movies were preceded by the notable practice of documentary photography. This has involved the use of singular Photograph, photographs to detail the complex attributes of History, historical events and continues to a certain degree to this day, with an example being the War photography, conflict-related photography achieved by popular figures such as Mathew Brady during the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Whistle Blower (film)
''Whistle Blower'' () is a 2014 South Korean film directed by Yim Soon-rye. Though fictionalized, the film is based on real-life scientist Hwang Woo-suk, who was at the center of one of the largest investigations of scientific fraud, named the Hwang affair, in recent memory. Hwang, then a professor of biotechnology at Seoul National University (SNU), gained international renown in 2004 after claiming that he had successfully carried out experiments cloning human embryonic stem cells. In 2005, an anonymous tip from whistleblower Ryu Young-joon, a former researcher at Hwang's lab, led to MBC program '' Producer's Note'' uncovering Hwang's ethical violations and fabricated data, which was confirmed by an SNU investigative panel in 2006. Hwang's research was discredited and in 2009, a South Korean court convicted him of embezzlement and bioethical violations. Plot TV news producer Yoon Min-cheol is desperate for a scoop for his investigative journalism program ''PD Chase''. One day ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hot Young Bloods
''Hot Young Bloods'' () is a 2014 South Korean teen romantic comedy film that depicts the loves, rivalries, and friendships between four high school students in Hongseong County, South Chungcheong Province in the 1980s. ''Hot Young Bloods'' was inspired by the short film ''That's What I Told Her'' (2013, Daniels Calvin). Plot Set in a rural town in 1982, Young-sook ( Park Bo-young) is the feared leader of a female gang at Hongseong Agricultural High School. Although she is known for her toughness and foul mouth, she secretly has a crush on Joong-gil (Lee Jong-suk), the biggest playboy in school. Joong-gil is a legendary Casanova whose single glance has the ability to make girls' hearts melt, and he's attempted to woo all the girls at school, except for Young-sook. That's because Gwang-sik ( Kim Young-kwang), the leader of a rival school's male gang, views Young-sook as his girl. Then a new female transfer student, So-hee (Lee Se-young) from Seoul arrives at their high school. So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Voice Acting
Voice acting is the art of performing a character or providing information to an audience with one's voice. Performers are often called voice actors/actresses in addition to other names. Examples of voice work include animated, off-stage, off-screen, or non-visible characters in various works such as films, dubbed foreign films, anime, television shows, video games, cartoons, documentaries, commercials, audiobooks, radio dramas and comedies, amusement rides, theater productions, puppet shows, and audio games. The role of a voice actor may involve singing, most often when playing a fictional character, although a separate performer is sometimes enlisted as the character's singing voice. A voice actor may also simultaneously undertake motion-capture acting. Non-fictional voice acting is heard through pre-recorded and automated announcements that are a part of everyday modern life in areas such as stores, elevators, waiting rooms, and public transport. Voice acting is recognize ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fake (2013 Film)
''The Fake'' () is a 2013 South Korean aeni drama film written and directed by Yeon Sang-ho. The film had its world premiere in the Vanguard section of the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2013, and went on to screen at various international film festivals before being released domestically on November 21, 2013. It won Best Animation awards at the Sitges Film Festival and Gijón International Film Festival, and was named the Best Korean Independent Film of 2013 by the Association of Korean Independent Film & Video. A blistering critique of organized religion set in a rural village where a manipulative church minister schemes to defraud his flock, ''The Fake'' is Yeon's sophomore feature after the acclaimed and divisive '' The King of Pigs'' (2011). Plot With their municipality scheduled to be flooded to make way for the construction of a new dam, the devout denizens of a rural village have placed their faith in Choi Gyeong-seok, a church elder who promis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Killer Toon
''Killer Toon'' () is a 2013 South Korean psychological horror film directed by Kim Yong-gyun, and starring Lee Si-young and Um Ki-joon. The film was successful at the box office, as it was the first South Korean horror film to sell more than one million cinema tickets since ''Death Bell'' in 2008. Plot A popular horror webtoon artist Kang Ji-yoon (Lee Si-young) finds life imitating her own work when her publisher turns up dead in a gruesome way, precisely mirrors the images in her latest comic. After a series of murders are connected to her webtoon, a private detective Lee Ki-cheol (Um Ki-joon) places Ji-Yoon on the list of suspects. Cast *Lee Si-young as Kang Ji-yoon *Um Ki-joon as Lee Ki-cheol *Hyun Woo as Kim Young-soo *Moon Ka-young as Jo Seo-hyun *Kwon Hae-hyo as Jo Seon-gi *Kim Do-young as Seo Mi-sook *Kim Hae-eun as Detective Yeo *Kim So-yeon as Mi-jin *Oh Yoon-hong as Seon-gi's wife *Lee Do-yeob as coroner *Kim Ji-young (actress, born 2005), Kim Ji-young as young Seo-hyu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Perfect Number (film)
''Perfect Number'' (; lit. ''Suspect X'') is a 2012 South Korean mystery-drama film directed by Bang Eun-jin. Adapted from Keigo Higashino's novel '' The Devotion of Suspect X'', it centers around a mild-mannered mathematics teacher ( Ryoo Seung-bum) who plans the perfect alibi for the woman he secretly loves ( Lee Yo-won) when she unexpectedly murders her abusive ex-husband. Cho Jin-woong received a Best Supporting Actor nomination at the 49th Baeksang Arts Awards in 2013. It was remade into the 2023 Indian film ''Jaane Jaan'' by Kross Pictures. '' Kolaigaran'', another Indian film, was an unofficial remake of the film released in 2019. Plot Kim Seok-go showed a lot of promise as a brilliant mathematician when he was in school, resolutely focused on his studies rather than on friends throughout his childhood. Now in his 30s, he's an ordinary high school math teacher, a far cry from the promising future of his youth. Seok-go is solemn and introverted, and his morning exchanges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Weddings And A Funeral (film)
{{Infobox film , name = Two Weddings and a Funeral , image = File:Two_Weddings_and_a_Funeral_poster.jpg , director = Kim Jho Kwang-soo , producer = Lee Seon-mi Lee Ji-yeon Kim Jeong-yeong , writer = Park Hae-young Kim Yoon-shin , starring = Kim Dong-yoon Ryu Hyun-kyung Song Yong-jin Jung Ae-yeon , music = Kim Dong-wook , cinematography = Kim Myeong-joon , editing = , studio = Generation Blue Films , distributor = Jinjin Pictures , released = {{film date, 2012, 6, 21 , runtime = 107 minutes , country = South Korea , language = Korean , budget = {{USD, 300,000 , gross = ''Two Weddings and a Funeral'' ({{ko-hhrm, 두 번의 결혼식과 한 번의 장례식, , Du Beon-ui Gyeol-hon-sik-gwa Han Beon-ui Jang-nye-sik) is a 2012 South Korean gay romantic comedy film that explores the taboos and intolerance in Korean society in the story of a gay man and lesbian wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
