Actor Ryu Seung-ryong won the grand prize at the 49th Paeksang Arts Awards on Thursday for his performance as the mentally disabled man with the mind of a 6-year-old child in this year’s box-office hit drama “Miracle in Cell No. 7.” “‘Miracle in Cell No. 7’ is a low-budget film with a number of flaws,” said Ryu after accepting the prize. “I think a lot of people liked the film, in spite of its shortcomings, because it stood by those who are marginalized in society.”Meanwhile, actress Kim Min-hee

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Jeong Jae-young and Han Ji-min have been cast as leads for an upcoming romantic comedy, the film’s distributor Lotte Entertainment said. According to Lotte, the movie, titled “Plan Man,” is a story of opposites of contrasting qualities. Actor Jeong is playing a man named Jeong-seok, a borderline mysophobic who also gets extremely anxious when things don’t go as he planned. His love interest, So-jeong, will be played by Han. Her character is everything the opposite of Jeong-seok; she is spontaneo

Top baseball players will have cameo roles in director Kim Yong-hwa’s upcoming flick “Mr. Go,” about a gorilla that plays baseball, the film’s producer Showbox/Mediaplex said. Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin and Cincinnati Reds outfielder Choo Shin-soo make brief appearances in a baseball game scene in the movie about a young Chinese girl named Weiwei who moves to Korea with her gorilla after her grandfather ― the only family she had ― passes away.Weiwei’s late grandfather owned a circ

MontageOpening May 16Thriller. Drama. Directed by Jeong Keun-seob.A kidnapper disappeared 15 years ago without a trace. Five days before the case’s statute of limitations expires, someone anonymously leaves a flower at the crime scene. A few days later, another kidnapping takes place using the same method on a similar target. Three people team up to solve the case before it’s too late: the grandfather (Song Young-chang), who lost his granddaughter right in front of him, the mother (Uhm Jung-hwa)

You might think that putting the NPR News quiz show “Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!” on the big screen, in movie theaters all over the country the night of May 2, would just be a way of celebrating its 15 years on the air, of paying tribute almost of the very day in May 1998 that playwright-screenwriter Peter Sagal took over and made the program a hit.And you’d be right. Almost. Sagal says it’s all about lowering the bar.“It’s very hard to fight that image of perfection that radio creates for us,”

Song Hae-sung’s ‘Boomerang Family’ evokes his family ideals

Singer Seo Taiji is releasing a DVD package called “ETP FESTIVAL 08 09 Seo Tai-ji,” SeoTaiji Company announced Monday. The package contains a Blu-ray disc and two DVDs containing the live recordings of his 2008 and 2009 concerts at ETPFEST (Eerie Taiji People Festival). The package also has a documentary on the festival since its inception in 2001.“The Blu-ray will provide his fans with the most vivid scenes of the concerts. Seo Taiji will be the first in Korea to release the full recordings in

Actor Hyun Bin is returning as King Jeongjo, the 22nd ruler of the Joseon era, in blockbuster movie “Yeogrin (King’s Wrath),” Choicecut Pictures announced Monday. In picking a historical film as his first piece since his discharge from the military on Dec. 6, 2012, the popular heartthrob is attempting a new venture. It will be his first role as a king and his first period piece. Hyun Bin will play the role of King Jeongjo, who is widely regarded as one of the most successful and visionary rulers

   Movies that stole the box office more than 10 years ago are tugging on the nostalgia of Korean moviegoers by reopening at local theaters. Despite its long hiatus, they are showing strong ticket power. Even if you haven’t seen Shunji Iwai’s movie “Love Letter,” you may still recognize the famous line “Oggenkideska,” meaning “How are you?” The movie reopened on Feb. 14 to celebrate Valentine’s Day following the “first love” fever sparked by the Korean movie “Architecture 101.” Despite its small

The follow-up to the famous ‘Before Sunrise’ and ‘Before Sunset’ gets Korean release