Picture of the Day: Are North Korean Women Getting Tatoos?
Can anyone help Melvin find out if this North Korean tatoos are legit or not?I have seen tattoos on North Korean men but never on women. True, these may only be temporary tattoos (more likely since they all seem to match-both in design and in place [...]
IRIS served with plagiarism suit
KBS’s hit spy drama IRIS has found itself entangled in plagiarism charges. On December 7, novelist Park Chul-joo filed a suit with Seoul Central District Court accusing the drama’s production company of ripping off his spy novel The Sun Doesn’t Rise on Mt. Fuji.
In his complaint, writer Park asserted that [...]
Into the Gunfire casts Cha Seung-won, Kim Seung-woo
Confirmed: Into the Gunfire [포화 속으로], which is set to begin filming shortly, has cast Cha Seung-won (City Hall) as a North Korean officer and Kim Seung-woo (IRIS) as his South Korean counterpart.
As previously announced, the Korean War film formerly known as 71 (and originally starring Kim [...]
Song Seung-heon and Lee Min-ki’s noir remake
Song Seung-heon and Lee Min-ki have been cast as the leads of a Korean remake of Hong Kong noir film A Better Tomorrow, the classic 1986 John Woo crime thriller that starred Chow Yun-fat, Leslie Cheung, and Ti Lung.
The remake, Invincible [무적자], boasts a blockbuster budget of more [...]
TOP and Kwon Sang-woo take over “71″
The movie 71 had first caught my interest for starring young actors Kim Bum and Yoo Seung-ho as student soldiers in wartime, but problems arose when the movie encountered budget issues and the like. The stars dropped out and the production halted for an extended period. Now, the [...]
