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Soo Ae
Park Soo-ae (; born 16 September 1979), known mononymously as Soo Ae, is a South Korean actress best known for portraying Kim In-hae in the 2013 film ''The Flu'' and Oh Soo-yeon in the 2018 film ''High Society''. Soo Ae began her career on television, but after her breakout role in '' A Family'' (2004), she became well-known as a leading actress in films, notably in '' Sunny'' (2008) and ''Midnight FM'' (2010). She also appeared in the popular television melodramas ''Emperor of the Sea'' (2004), ''A Thousand Days' Promise'' (2011), '' Queen of Ambition'' (2013) and ''Mask'' (2015). In 2016, she made her romantic-comedy drama comeback in KBS2's '' Sweet Stranger and Me''. Career Pre-debut Soo Ae nearly became a member of a K-pop idol group. Fresh out of high school, a record agent approached the young stunner on the street in the trendy Apgujeong area. She spent six months in grueling practice, but in the end had no album to put out. She reminisced in an interview, "I didn't si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bongcheon-dong
Bongcheon or ''Bongcheon-dong'' is a statutory division of Gwanak District, Seoul, South Korea. Its name means "enshrining heaven" which was derived from its location, northern skirt of Mt. Gwanak, stretching to the mountain ridge. It consists 9 administrative neighbourhoods. District office of Gwanak is located in Bongcheon. Administrative divisions As of September, 2008, there are 9 administrative neighbourhoods (''dong'') in Bongcheon. "Bongsari" = Bongcheon Sageori See also *Administrative divisions of South Korea South Korea is made up of 17 first-tier administrative divisions: 6 metropolitan cities (''gwangyeoksi'' ), 1 special city (''teukbyeolsi'' ), 1 special self-governing city (''teukbyeol-jachisi'' ), and 9 provinces ('' do'' ), including one ... References External linksOfficial website [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation
Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC; ) is one of the leading South Korean television and radio broadcasters. ''Munhwa'' is the Sino-Korean word for "culture". Its flagship terrestrial television station MBC TV broadcasts as channel 11. Established on 2 December 1961, MBC's terrestrial operations has a nationwide network of 17 regional stations. Although it operates on advertising, MBC is a public broadcaster, as its largest shareholder is a public organization, the Foundation of Broadcast Culture. MBC consists of a multimedia group with one terrestrial TV channel, three radio channels, five cable channels, five satellite channels and four DMB channels. MBC is headquartered in Digital Media City (DMC), Mapo District, Seoul and has the largest broadcast production facilities in Korea including digital production centre Dream Center in Ilsan, indoor and outdoor sets in Yongin Daejanggeum Park. History Radio era (1961-1968) Launching the first radio broadcast signa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Korea Times
''The Korea Times'' is the oldest of three English-language newspapers published daily in South Korea. It is a sister paper of the '' Hankook Ilbo'', a major Korean language daily; both are owned by Dongwha Enterprise, a wood-based manufacturer. Since the late 1950s, it had been published by the Hankook Ilbo Media Group, but following an embezzlement scandal in 2013–2014 it was sold to Dongwha Group, which also acquired ''Hankook Ilbo''. The president-publisher of ''The Korea Times'' is Oh Young-jin. Former Korean President Kim Dae-jung famously taught himself English by reading ''The Korea Times''. Newspaper headquarters The newspaper's headquarters is located in the same building with ''Hankook Ilbo'' on Sejong-daero between Sungnyemun and Seoul Station in Seoul, South Korea. The publication also hosts major operations in New York City and Los Angeles. History ''The Korea Times'' was founded by Helen Kim five months into the 1950-53 Korean War. The first issue on Novem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Joon-ik
Lee Joon-ik (born September 21, 1959) is a South Korean film director and film producer, producer. He is best known for directing and producing ''King and the Clown'' (2005), one of the List of highest-grossing films in South Korea, highest grossing Korean films of all time. Other notable films include ''Sunny (2008 film), Sunny'' (2008), ''Hope (2013 film), Hope'' (2013), ''The Throne (film), The Throne'' (2015), ''Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet'' (2016), and ''The Book of Fish'' (2021). Filmography Awards and nominations References External links * * * 1959 births Living people South Korean film directors South Korean film producers South Korean male film actors Asian film producers category:Grand Prize Paeksang Arts Award (Film) winners {{SouthKorea-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (also known by other names) was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. The north was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist states, while the south was supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. The war is widely considered to be a Cold War-era proxy war. It lasted almost 20 years, with direct U.S. involvement ending in 1973. The conflict also spilled over into neighboring states, exacerbating the Laotian Civil War and the Cambodian Civil War, which ended with all three countries becoming communist states by 1975. After the French military withdrawal from Indochina in 1954 – following their defeat in the First Indochina War – the Viet Minh took control of North Vietnam, and the U.S. assumed financial and military support for the South Vietnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Once In A Summer
''Once in a Summer'' () is a 2006 South Korean melodrama/romance film directed by Joh Keun-shik. The film stars Lee Byung-hun and Soo Ae. It won Best Film and Best Director (for Joh) at the 15th Chunsa Film Art Awards in 2007. Plot To make up for her poor performance as an assistant producer, a girl promises to have her reserved but very renowned professor appear on their television series. The show involves locating the long-lost loved ones of the participant's past. Although hesitant at first, the professor finally agrees. His story takes the assistant back 50 years—1969—when the world is in chaos. President Park Chung-hee is a dictator and the students are furious. Suk-young and a group of his classmates travel to the country to escape the tense city and help a small village become up-to-date with newly invented technology. It is there he meets Jung-in, a very pretty girl who is the custodian of the only library. Cheerful and happy, they first run across each other when Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Byung-hun
Lee Byung-hun (; born July 12, 1970) is a South Korean actor. He has received critical acclaim for his work in a wide range of genres, most notably ''Joint Security Area'' (2000); ''A Bittersweet Life'' (2005); ''The Good, the Bad, the Weird'' (2008); the television series ''Iris'' (2009); '' I Saw the Devil'' (2010); '' Masquerade'' (2012); and '' Mr. Sunshine'' (2018). His critically acclaimed film '' Inside Men'' (2015) won him the Best Actor prize in three prestigious award ceremonies: 52nd Baeksang Art Awards, 37th Blue Dragon Awards and 53rd Grand Bell Awards. Lee has five films—''Joint Security Area'', ''The Good, the Bad, the Weird'', ''Masquerade'', ''Inside Men'' and ''Master''—on the list of highest-grossing films in South Korea. Lee was Gallup Korea's Actor of the Year in the Film division in 2012 and in the Television division in 2018. In 2021, he appeared in a recurring role as the Front Man in the Netflix survival drama series ''Squid Game''. In the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wedding Campaign
''Wedding Campaign'' is 2005 South Korean film about two aging bachelor farmers from Gyeongsang Province. Unable to find wives in Korea willing to move to the countryside, they go on a 10-day "campaign" in Uzbekistan, where local matchmakers attempt to pair them up with local ethnic Korean women. It was the closing film of the 2005 Pusan International Film Festival. Plot Hong Man-taek is a 38-year-old bachelor who at his age is still unable to meet eyes with a woman. Whenever his mother complains "Never had luck with men, never had luck with sons," he feels guilty about not having found a bride yet. Man-taek's old friend Hee-chul thinks he is a lady killer, but he's only a bit more experienced than his basket case friend. Urged on by his grandfather, the two bachelor buddies embark on a matchmaking journey to Uzbekistan to find wives. The trip to Uzbekistan begins with anxiety and hope. While Hee-chul musters all his suaveness and broken English to appeal to the women, Man-taek get ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jung Jae-young
Jeong Jae-yeong (born Jeong Ji-hyeon; November 21, 1970) is a South Korean actor. He's best known for his roles in the critically acclaimed films '' Silmido'' (2003), ''Right Now, Wrong Then'' (2015), and '' On the Beach at Night Alone'' (2017). For his work in films, he won the Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor awards at the Blue Dragon Film Awards, Busan Film Critics Awards, Director's Cut Awards, Korean Association of Film Critics Awards, 9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards and Locarno International Film Festival. Career Jung Jae-young started his career taking minor roles in films ranging from his debut ''The Adventures of Mrs. Park'' to '' Green Fish'' (1997), '' The Quiet Family'' (1998), and '' Die Bad'' (2000). However throughout this period he was primarily occupied with works by director/playwright Jang Jin, both on the stage and in minor roles for the films ''The Happenings'' and ''The Spy''. Jung's first prominent film role came in Jang Jin's third film ''Guns & Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dong-a Ilbo
The ''Dong-A Ilbo'' (, literally ''East Asia Daily'') is a newspaper of record in Korea since 1920 with a daily circulation of more than 1.2 million and opinion leaders as its main readers. ''The Dong-A Ilbo'' is the parent company of Dong-A Media Group (DAMG), which is composed of 11 affiliates including Sports Dong-A, Dong-A Science, DUNet, and dongA.com, as well as Channel A, general service cable broadcasting company launched on 1 December 2011. It covers a variety of areas including news, drama, entertainment, sports, education, and movies. ''The Dong-A Ilbo'' has partnered with international news companies such as ''The New York Times'' of the United States of America, ''The Asahi Shimbun'' of Japan and ''The People's Daily'' of China. It has correspondents stationed in five major cities worldwide including Washington D.C., New York, San Francisco, Beijing, Tokyo, Cairo and Paris. It also publishes global editions in 90 cities worldwide including New York, London, Pari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Jung-jin
Lee Jung-jin, (born May 25, 1978) is a South Korean actor. Early life Lee Jung-jin graduated from Konkuk University with a degree in horticulture before studying acting at Hanyang University. Career Lee worked as a fashion model before being discovered by Jeong Young-beom, the CEO of talent agency Star J Entertainment. He made his acting debut in the 1998 sitcom ''Soonpoong Clinic'', and has since appeared in many television dramas, including ''Two Outs in the Ninth Inning'', ''Love Story in Harvard'', '' The Fugitive: Plan B'', and ''A Hundred Year Legacy''. He also starred in the films ''Once Upon a Time in High School'', '' Mapado'', ''Troubleshooter'', ''Eun-ha'', and most notably ''Pietà'', for which he received the prestigious Okgwan Order of Cultural Merit. From 2009 to 2011, Lee was a cast member of the popular variety show segment ''Qualifications of Men'' on KBS2's ''Happy Sunday''. In 2020, Lee Jung-jin played a character of Lee Lim, the illegitimate brother of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Outs In The Ninth Inning
''Two Outs in the Ninth Inning'' () is a 2007 South Korean television series starring Soo Ae, Lee Jung-jin, Lee Tae-sung and Hwang Ji-hyun. It aired on MBC from July 14 to September 9, 2007 on Saturdays and Sundays at 21:40 for 16 episodes. The romantic comedy series explores the age-old question of whether a man and a woman can ever be just friends. As the title suggests, the series makes plenty of baseball references, with each of its sixteen episodes opening with a catchy phrase relating the facts of life through the game of baseball. Plot Aspiring writer Hong Nan-hee is a foul-mouthed, disheveled and jaded single woman struggling with life and love. She and Byun Hyung-tae have been best friends for most of their lives. They cook for each other, call each other daily, bicker like siblings, and support each other when things go wrong. But everything is about to change. On her 30th birthday, Nan-hee realizes that she needs to shake things up. She begins dating Kim Jung-joo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
