April Snow - Korean Movie

April Snow is a Korean drama movie starring Bae Yong Joon, star of the smash hit Korean drama Winter Sonata
Story:
In Su (Bae Yong Joon) a husband who travels to Korea’s east coast after discovering that his wife Su Jin (Im Sang Hyo) was critically injured in a car accident. To In Su’s surprise, it seems that she was traveling with a man named Kyung Ho (Ryoo Seung Soo, from The President’s Barber), and both of them now lie in the operating room as they undergo treatment for their injuries. While waiting for news of his wife’s condition, In-Su meets the man’s wife, Seo-Young (Son Ye Jin, from A Moment to Remember), and together the two of them piece together the devastating truth: their spouses were having an affair. Deeply upset by this shocking revelation, the duo’s world spins out of control, as they both come to grips with their feelings of sorrow and betrayal. After several chance encounters, the two become closer. Both stay at the same dingy motel, and soon enough, they forge a deep connection. Will they act on their feelings for each other? And if they do succumb to their passions, will it be out of revenge or out of love?

Director: Heo Jin Ho

Highway Star - Korean Movie ( DVD )

two-disc | Korea Drama DVD
Film fans recognize Cha Tae Hyun as the lead of romantic favorites like My Sassy Girl and My Girl and I, but the popular actor has also dabbled in music and has two albums under his belt. Merging his acting and singing careers, Cha Tae Hyun gives his vocal cords a stretch in Highway Star, and in the most unlikely of ways - trot! Considered pop music for the middle-aged, trot is a melodramatic folk-style music genre akin to Japanese enka or country music. The genre has been making a popular resurgence in recent years with the crossover success of younger trot singers like Jang Yoon Jeong and boy band Super Junior jumping into the fray, and now it's even getting the big screen treatment - complete with flashy suits, slicked-down hair, and dramatic stage postures. Based on a Saito Hiroshi novel, the film is co-directed by first-timers Kim Hyun Soo and Kim Sang Chan, who fill the movie with just enough humor and zest. With Cha Tae Hyun starring as a rocker-turned-trotter and support from comic veteran Lim Chae Moo and actress Lee So Yeon (Untold Scandal), Highway Star makes for a hilarious, foot-tapping journey.
Synopsis :
Stuck in a small town, aspiring rocker Dal Ho (Cha Tae Hyun) makes a living reluctantly playing trot at local clubs. When small-time recording company head Jang (Lim Chae Moo) offers Dal Ho a contract, he eagerly grabs the opportunity, believing that his time has finally come. After he signs, however, Dal Ho discovers that he won't be rocking after all. Instead, he will be singing trot. Unable to back out of his contract, Dal Ho takes to the stage behind a mask to hide his embarrassment, and ends up an overnight sensation. The wannabe rocker seems to have found his true calling, but doing music he dislikes. With the help of Jang and a certain cute trot singer (Lee So Yeon), maybe he'll actually learn the passion of trot.

Korean Movie
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Dal Ja’s Spring - Movie Review - Korean TV Drama

Dal Ja’s Spring - Movie Review - Korean TV Series
Korean drama series, tells a story about Dal Ja, a 33 years old. She is an MD of a home shopping channel. She has a love contract with Kang Tae Bong, a 27 year old freelancer of a playmate enterprise. The story also revolves around Dal Ja’s life with three men. Wee Sun Joo is a divorcee who is an expert on love and faces life with positive thinking.
Also known as: The Spring of Oh Dal Ja
Total Episodes: 22
Broadcast network: KBS2
Broadcast period: 2007-Jan-03 to 2007-Mar-15

Producer: Lee Jae Sang
Written by: Kang Eun Kyung

Casts:

Chae Rim as Oh Dal Ja
Lee Min Ki as Kang Tae Bong
Lee Hyun Woo as Uhm Gi Joong
Lee Hye Young as Wee Seon Joo
Gong Hyeong Jin as Shin Sae Do
Seo Yeong as Hong Ji Hee
Kil Young Woo as Tae Bong’s father
Kwon Ki Sun as Tae Bong’s mother
Kim Na Woon as Go Soon Ae (Oh Dal Ja’s sunbae)
Lee Kyung Jin as Dal Ja’s mother
Kim Young Ok as Dal Ja’s grandmother
Kim Sung Kyeom as Tae Bong’s grandfather
Oh Kyung Soo as the department director
Kim Jae Wook as Choon Ha (Tae Bong’s friend)

Jewel in the Palace - Korean Drama - Korean TV

Dae Jang Geum a.k.a. Jewel in the Palace MBC 2003
Based loosely on the historical figure depicted in the Annals of Joseon Dynasty, the show focuses on Jang-geum (played by Lee Young Ae), the first female royal physician of the Joseon Dynasty of Korea. The main theme is her perseverance, as well as the portrayal of traditional Korean culture, including Korean royal court cuisine and medicine.

Synopsis:

About 500 years ago during the time of Chosun Dynasty, Korea boasted a rigidly hierarchical and male dominated social structure. Set in this period, "Jewel in the Palace" is based on a true story about a legendary girl (Jang-Geum) who became the first woman to be the supreme royal physician of her times. Despite her poor condition as a low class girl in the male dominated society, Jang-Geum overcame a series of social discrimination and landed herself as a royal cook, later becoming the royal physician, then ultimately the physician in charge of the king. She was even given by the king the title "The Great Jang-Geum". The story of her checkered life on her success and breakdown as well as her love story beautifully unfold. "Jewel in the Palace" is sure to touch your heart.

A testimony to all showing that almost anything is possible with determination and wisdom.

Starring:
Dae Jang Geum ~ Lee Young Ae

Min Jung Ho ~ Ji Jin Hee

Choi Geum-Young ~ Hong Li-Na

King Joong Jong ~ Im Ho

Dae Jang Geum, sometimes known as The Great Jang Geum, or Jewel In The Palace, is a 2003 TV series produced by South Korean TV channel MBC

Alone in Love ( Era of Love ) - Korean Drama

Episodes: 16 (SBS) Era of Love (a.k.a. Alone in Love)
Yoo Eun-ho (Son Ye-jin) and Lee Dong-jin (Gam Woo-sang) were once a happy married couple. The two divorce after realizing their differences, but remain as friends. As both try to get on with their lives they keep on getting tangled in each other's lives. As Eun-ho and Dong-jin try to start new relationships with other people, they will realize that they still truly love each other. But will these two give it another chance?

Synopsis:
Alone In Love is the story of a divorced couple who are still struggling to let go of each other. The drama series follows the couple, Eun Ho and Dong Jin, two ordinary people - not particularly attractive or successful - as they meet and fall in love. The couple get married but when an unforeseen tragedy casts a shadow over their relationship, they agree to cut their losses and get a divorce. But the bond between them is too strong and they are unable to leave each other alone, persistently invading each other's life, offering support, comfort, even matchmaking for the other. But why? If they accept the fact they are destined to be together they will be forced to face their past and confront the tragedy they have spent three years trying to forget about!

Cast: Gam Woo-sung, Son Yeh-jin

Snow Flower ( Nunkkot ) - Korean TV Drama

20 Episodes Korean Drama
Category :
Asian, Drama, TV Series
Kim Hee Ae is a smart woman but she is poor. She met a man Lee Jae Ryong and they fell in love with each other. After sometimes they got married and they have their own daughter. Without her knowing, her husband was a married man with two children back in Japan. She couldn’t bear this and asks for divorce. Life change though, Later she becomes a famous writer who barely time for her daughter and this make her daughter has a closer relationship with her grandmother rather than her own mom Lee Hee Ae. Her daughter turns to against her. The daughter, Go Ah Ra, has forgotten about her father. She gets a call from her father and was shocked. She was disappointed and was in anger with her mother. She gives up her studies without a good reason and decided to become an actress. It happened she stars in a movie which story is based on her mom bestseller. She goes out with her boss, her mom is unhappy about this. One day she decided to look for her father in Japan, her father, Lee Jae Ryong was shock to see his daughter coming to him without any notice

Cast:
Lee Kang-ae (best-selling author): Kim Hee Ae (Wife)
Yoo Da-mi (Kang-ae's daughter): Go Ah Ra
Yoo Gun-hee (Kang-ae's ex-husband/Korean living in Japan): Lee Jae Ryong (To Be With You)
Ha In-chan (Da-mi's first boyfriend): Lee Chan (Letters to the Parents/Yellow Handkerchief)
Ha Young-chan: Kim Ki Bum

Princess Hours ( Goong )- Korean TV Drama

Princess Hours ( Goong ) On DVD
Korean Drama
Category :
Asian, Drama, Romance, TV Series
Popular korean romance drama TV series, ‘Princess Hours’ is now available on DVD. This Korean Drama starring Ju Ji Hoon, Yoon Eun Hae of Baby V.O.X., and Kim Jung Hun. Also known as Palace, this series pulling in ratings of nearly 30 percent during its broadcast in Korea.
Hours Princess

Jumong

Categories: Korean TV Series. Genres: Drama, Historical

Jumong is a Korea historical drama. Originally set to be 60, MBC has decided to extend it to 80 episodes due to its popularity. It portrays the life of Jumong, later King Dongmyeongseong, and founder of the Goguryeo Kingdom.

Jumong’s Summary: Gojoseon has fallen to the Han Empire of China. All that is left are separate city-states that have no choice but to appease the Han Empire. The Han are cruel, taking refugees prisoner and demonstrating their new iron weapons on them.

A legendary soldier named Hae Mo-su, joins hands with Geumwa, the crown prince of Buyeo, in order to counter Han savagery, creating the Da-Mul Gun, a band of soldiers who defended Wiman-Chosun refugees. Hae Mo-su gets injured after a skirmish against Han soldiers, and floats down a river, half alive.

The princess of the Haebaek tribe finds him and nurses him back to health. The two start a relationship. However, the Han are looking for Hae Mo-su, and discovering that the man the princess was sheltering looked like (and was) Hae Mo-su, and they raze the tribe to the ground. Hae Mo-su escapes just in time and travels until he meets a caravan from the tribe of Gyeh-Ru.

The head merchant, who is also the ruler of the Gyeh-Ru tribe, offers Hae Mo-su a job within the caravan, not knowing who the man is. The ruler, Yeon Ta-Bal, tells Hae Mo-su to join him in his tent, and they introduce each other and share a conversation. News of the Habaek tribe pops up in the middle of the conversation, and seeing the shocked look on his guest’s face, Yeon Ta-Bal begins to suspect the guest of being Hae Mo-su himself. The next day, the caravan travels but stops when they hear that Yeon’s wife has gone into labor.

They set up camp and So Seo-No is born and protected, as Hae Mo-su defends the trade caravan against a band of thieves, reinforcing Yeon’s assumption. Yeon’s caravan has trading rights with the Han Dynasty itself. Yeon knows of Hae Mosu’s escape, and a great reward for his capture. At this point, he is fully convinced that his guest is Hae Mo-su. Yeon decides not to turn Hae Mo-su in, because of his deed of defending his caravan and his daughter from harm.

Hae Mo-su returns to Geumwa, and they resume the skirmishes. However, as the Damulgun progress in their obejective to free all refugees, the Han disguise Han soldiers as fake refugees, whom the Damulgun attempt to rescue. Ambushed by the fake refugees and “ironclad cavalry,” the Damulgun with him are killed, and he is captured. Hae Mosu is subsequently tortured and blinded by the Han.

Geum-wa, attempts and succeeds in freeing Hae Mo-su, who, though blind, is able to ride a horse. Geum-wa ultimately fails in his task to save Hae Mo-su, who Geumwa sees, trapped upon a chateau, shot with arrows and presumably dead in the river.

Haebaek princess has Hae Mo-su’s child. She goes to the Crown Prince of Buyeo. After bearing her son, Jumong, he becomes a prince of Buyeo (after the enthronement of the Crown Prince) and she a Royal Concubine upon the new Emperor’s insistence. Jumong will learn of his father, his violent rivalry among him and his half-brothers, his love for So Seo-No, and finally, a revival of the Da-mul Gun and the founding of Goguryeo.

Title: Samhanji-Jumong Pyeon
Title (English): The Book of Three Han: The Chapter of Joo Mong
Genre: Historical
Broadcast period: 2006-May-15 to 2007-Mar-
Broadcast network: MBC
Total Episode : 80
Directors : Lee Ju-hwan, Kim Gun-hong Lee Ju-hwan, Kim Gun-hong
Writen by: Choi Wan-kyu, Jung Hyung-soo
Casts:
Song Il-gook as Ju-mong
Han Hye-jin as Soh Seo-no
Kim Seung-soo as Dae-soh
Jung Gwang-ryeol as King Geum-wa
Oh Yeon-su as Lady Yu-hwa
Kyeon Mi-ri as Queen Hwang-hu
Jin Hee-kyeong as Yeomieul
Lee Jae-yong as Bu Deok-bul
Heo Jun-ho as Hae Mo-soo
Song Ji Hyo as Ye Soya

Website: MBC Jumong Official website