Um Tae-hwa
Um Tae-hwa (born 1980) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Um's directorial feature debut ''Ingtoogi: The Battle of Internet Trolls'' (2013)—a graduation project for the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA)—was nominated for Best Film, Best Director and Best New Director at the 1st Wildflower Film Awards, 1st Wildflower Film Awards and Best New Director (Film) at the 50th Paeksang Arts Awards, 50th Baeksang Arts Awards in 2014. In 2023 his film ''Concrete Utopia'' was selected as South Korean entry in the List of South Korean submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, Best International Feature Film category for the 96th Academy Awards to be held in March 2024. Personal life His younger brother Uhm Tae-goo, is a South Korean actor known for his roles in many critically acclaimed films, such as ''Coin Locker Girl'' (2015), ''The Age of Shadows'' (2016) and for his main roles in popular Korean dramas, such as ''Save Me 2'' (2019), ''Home ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Seoul, South Korea
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]   |
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The Age Of Shadows
''The Age of Shadows'' (; lit. "Emissary") is a 2016 South Korean period action thriller film directed by Kim Jee-woon and written by Lee Ji-min and Park Jong-dae. The film is set in Shanghai and Seoul in the 1920s and stars Song Kang-ho and Gong Yoo. It was selected as the South Korean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film won the Best Picture award in the Action Features category at the 2016 Fantastic Fest held in Austin, Texas. Plot Kim Jang-ok and Joo Dong-sung, members of the Korean independence group Heroic Corps, visit the wealthy Kim Hwang-sub under the pretense of securing military funds, but it's a trap. Surrounded by Japanese forces, Kim Jang-ok fights valiantly in a gun battle but ultimately takes his own life when confronted by his former friend Lee Jung-chool, now working for the Japanese police. Lee, however, quietly releases Joo Dong-sung, arousing suspicion among fellow Heroic Corps mem ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Tinker Ticker
''Tinker Ticker'' () is a 2013 South Korean crime drama film written and directed by Kim Jung-hoon in his first feature-length for his Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) graduation project. Starring Byun Yo-han and Park Jeong-min, it follows a bombmaker who meets a detonator. It made its world premiere at the 26th Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF) in 2013, competing in the inaugural Best Asian Future Film Award category. Plot Cast * Byun Yo-han as Park Jung-gu * Park Jeong-min as Lee Hyo-min * Kim Hee-chang as Professor Baek * Oh Chang-kyung as Detective Oh * Park Seong-il as Han Gyoo-nam * Yoon Dae Hyung as Pil-gyoon * Lee Si-won as Si-won * Um Tae-hwa Um Tae-hwa (born 1980) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Um's directorial feature debut ''Ingtoogi: The Battle of Internet Trolls'' (2013)—a graduation project for the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA)—was nominated for Best ... Awards and nominations Reception References External links ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Night Fishing (film)
''Night Fishing'' (; ''"Ups and Downs."'' or ''"A Checkered Past"'') is a 2011 South Korean fantasy- horror short film directed, produced, written by PARKing CHANce, brand name of the brothers, Park Chan-wook and Park Chan-kyong. The lead role is played by K-pop star Lee Jung-hyun. It was shot entirely on iPhone 4, and it was financially supported by KT, South Korea's exclusive distributor of the iPhone at the time. KT supplied the duo with 150 million Korean Won (US$133,447). It was screened to over 100 reporters on January 11, 2011, and opened for public release on January 27. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival. Plot A man casually sets up for a fishing trip at the water's edge. Evening comes and a tug on his line presents him with the body of a woman. While he tries to disentangle himself from the fishing lines, she comes alive. The scene changes and the woman is now a shaman priestess in a funeral ritual for ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Epitaph (2007 Film)
''Epitaph'' () is a 2007 South Korean film directed by brothers Jung Sik and Jung Bum-shik. The film is a horror film set primarily in 1942, while Korea was under the colonial rule of Japan. It is framed by scenes set in 1979. Plot Dr. Park Jung-nam finds a photo album dating back to his days as an intern at the Ansaeng Hospital. This triggers memories of his life. In 1942, as a young medical intern, Jung-nam's arranged marriage ended when his fiancée, whom he had never met, committed suicide. Later he was assigned to monitor the morgue late at night. There he fell in love with a corpse, which is later revealed as the body of his deceased fiancée. Soon other mysterious events take place in the hospital, involving a young girl haunted by ghosts and a serial killer targeting Japanese soldiers. Cast * Kim Bo-kyung as Kim In-yeong * Jin Goo as Park Jeong-nam *Lee Dong-kyu as Lee Su-In * Kim Tae-woo as Kim Dong-won * Ko Joo-yeon as Asako * Park Ji-a as mother * David McInnis as fat ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sympathy For Lady Vengeance
''Lady Vengeance'' (; titled ''Sympathy for Lady Vengeance'' in Australia and Russia) is a 2005 South Korean neo-noir psychological thriller film directed by Park Chan-wook. The film is the third and final installment in Park's '' Vengeance Trilogy'', following '' Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance'' (2002) and '' Oldboy'' (2003). It stars Lee Young-ae as Lee Geum-ja, a woman released from prison after serving the sentence for a murder she did not commit. The film tells her story of revenge against the real murderer. The film debuted on 29 July 2005 in South Korea, and competed for the Golden Lion at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival in September 2005. While it failed to win in competition, it did walk away with Cinema of The Future, the Young Lion Award, and the Best Innovated Film Award in the non-competition section. It won the award for Best Film at the 26th Blue Dragon Film Awards. The film had its US premiere on 30 September 2005 at the New York Film Festival. It began i ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Three
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Film Editor
Film editing is both a creative and a technical part of the post-production process of filmmaking. The term is derived from the traditional process of working with film stock, film which increasingly involves the use Digital cinema, of digital technology. When putting together some sort of video composition, typically, one would need a collection of shots and footages that vary from one another. The act of adjusting the shots someone has already taken, and turning them into something new is known as film editing. The film editor works with raw footage, selecting Shot (filmmaking), shots and combining them into Sequence (filmmaking), sequences which create a finished Film, motion picture. Film editing is described as an art or skill, the only art that is unique to cinema, separating filmmaking from other art forms that preceded it, although there are close parallels to the editing process in other art forms such as poetry and novel writing. Film editing is an extremely important ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Screenplay
A screenplay, or script, is a written work produced for a film, television show (also known as a '' teleplay''), or video game by screenwriters (cf. ''stage play''). Screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. A screenplay is a form of narration in which the movements, actions, expressions and dialogue of the characters are described in a certain format. Visual or cinematographic cues may be given, as well as scene descriptions and scene changes. History In the early silent era, before the turn of the 20th century, "scripts" for films in the United States were usually a synopsis of a film of around one paragraph and sometimes as short as one sentence.Andrew Kenneth Gay"History of scripting and the screenplay"at Screenplayology: An Online Center for Screenplay Studies. Retrieved 15 December 2021. Shortly thereafter, as films grew in length and complexity, film scenarios (also called "treatments" or "synopses"Steven Maras. ''Screenwri ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Gangnam
Gangnam (), sometimes referred to as the Greater Gangnam Area, is a geographic and cultural region in Seoul. While Gangnam can refer to the entire region of Seoul south of the Han River, the region is generally defined as consisting of the city's affluent Gangnam, Seocho and Songpa districts. Other definitions define Gangnam by the boundaries of the Gangnam Eighth School District or by the commercial zones around Gangnam Highway, Yangjae Station, Sinsa Station, Nonhyeon Station, Sinnonhyeon Station and Gangnam station. These definitions exclude the Songpa District, which has been argued to be culturally and administratively distinct from the Gangnam and Seocho districts. Historically, the region was also called Yeongdong () and remained undeveloped prior to the state-led urban development of the 1960s. During the 1970s and 1980s, Park Chung Hee, aiming to counteract urban sprawl and the Korean conflict#Later Cold War period, threat of North Korean invasion, promoted ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |