As One (2012)

Hello there, I’m going to introduce Korean movies to you. Hope you enjoy!

 

 

The next movie that I’m going to introduce to you is ‘As One(코리아)’ This movie was released at May third, 2012. The director is Hyun-Sung Moon. He has directed movie ‘Yoga Academy’.

This movie had 186 million audience. ‘As one’ had less audience than other movies that I posted but personally I liked this movie the best by so far among the other movies! The main characters are Ji-Won Ha, Du-Na Bae, Ye-Ri Han and Yoon-Young Choi.

 

This movie is made from real story which happened in Korea. In 1991, Ping-pong game gained popularity. Korea national Ping-pong player, Jung-Hwa Hyun always practices hard to get good score on Olympics. But as everyone knows Korea has been separated by two parts. The government wants to make good effort between North Korea and South Korea, so the government makes one team with North and South. So the North Korea’s Ping-pong players and South Korea’s Ping-pong players meet together and become one team. In North Korea, there are good players too like Boon-Hee Lee and Sun-Bok Yu. In first meeting, there are too many cultural differences between North Korea players and South Korea players. So they don’t practice each other. But they couldn’t get good scores on double matches. So the coaches tell the players to mix it up and make team together. So Jung-Hwa and Boon-Hee make team together.

 As time goes on they become really close friends and all other players get along together very well. First they felt they are so different, but later they realize they are same people.

 

 Korea always lost to China in Ping-pong game. But Team named ‘Korea’ won China for the first time ever! But still there were nervous between two countries, they had to say good bye to each other. It was sudden good-bye. They didn’t have time to say something. Just few days ago, they were one team, friends, and family but suddenly after the Olympic they had to separate. The movie ends with the scene that Jung-Hwa and Boon-Hee meet in other Ping-pong game and play together.

 

Maybe other foreigners cannot understand the sadness of the separation of one country. By so far Korea is the only country in the whole world that is separated. And in these days, North Korea and South Korea’s relationship is becoming worse and worse. In my opinion it is stupid to fight with same ethnic race people. Like in this movie it is unforgettable hurt for the separated families and friends. Also if Korea can be one, maybe we can win China in Ping-pong again and become stronger! But it is true that there are too many obstacles right now between two countries. I hope the two countries solve this problem well and be peaceful!

200 Pounds Beauty (2006)

200 pounds Beauty (2006)

 

Hello there, I’m going to introduce some Korean movies to you.

Hope you enjoy!

 

 

The next movie that I’m going to introduce is ‘200 pounds Beauty (미녀는 괴로워)’. This movie was released at December 14^th, 2006. The director is Yong-Hwa Kim. He has directed famous movie like ‘Take Off(국가대표)’, Main characters are A-Jung Kim, Jin-Mo Ju and etc.

 This movie’s genre is comedy and romance. This movie is about one girl’s dramatic life. Plot of this movie goes like this. There is one famous female singer in Korea. She is pretty and hot so she has pretty big size of fans. But she has big secret. She can’t sing at all! So she uses another girl to sing instead of her. Hanna, the fake singer, is the one who really sing instead of the pretty singer. Hanna has beautiful voice and she can sing nicely. But she is.. really big and fat. In these days, most of singers are pretty and cute especially in Korea, the appearance is very important to become a singer. Because of that reason, Hanna cannot even try to become singer.

 One day, her boyfriend dumped her with insulting comments, making fun of her big body. Hanna get really sad because of him and try to kill herself with medicine. But that fail too. With all of adversities she got from her body and face, she made decision to get plastic surgery all over her body. Head to toe! But she has father she has to care. Her father has mental disability. She feel really bad for her dad but she get the surgery.

 

 After big surgery, Hanna became BEAUTIFUL girl! Everyone look at her when she walks and everyone wants to be friend with Hanna because she is so beautiful. Hanna changes her name into Jenny and start new life. She becomes real singer and gets big popularity. And fell in love with the boss of the entertainment who she has loved for really long time. But the pretty singer who can’t sing, has big doubt on Jenny and find her secret out and try to destroy her. But later Jenny admits her truth and meets her dad and make big hit album by her real name Hanna.

 

This movie was big hit movie with 661million audiences. I think this movie has lots of things to tell people. Why fat and ugly people can’t be proud of their ability? And it was sad that oneself changes head to toe and becomes whole new person, losing their own individuality. We should seriously think about ‘Lookism’ that is widespread through whole world. The appearance is not all.

 

 The movie ‘200 pounds Beauty’ is good movie to laugh and think about our society’

 

 

Take off (2009)

Take off

 

 

The next movie that I’m going to introduce to you is Take Off(국가대표). It was released at september 9^th, 2009. It’s genre is drama(comedy). The director of ‘Take Off’ is Yong-Ho Kim. He has directed movies like ‘Mr. Go’ and “200 pounds beauty’. The main characters are Jung-U Ha, Dong-Il Sung, Ji-suk Kim, Dong-Uk Kim and etc. The movie is made out of real fiction that happen in Korea.  It was big hit movie with 839 ten thousand audience. It is the 7^th most popular movie so far.

 

 This movie starts at 1996 in Muju, Jeonbuk. Jeonbuk the state where I live so it was friendly for me to watch. Muju is very cold place. And at there the first Korean ski-jump team is formed. But the support from government is so poor. But the government keep pushing them to form the national team of ski jump. So the coach(Dong-il Sung) form the team. But the team is really weak. And some day Bob(Jung-wu Ha), the ski player, come to Korea to find her real mom since he was adopted to USA when he was very young. He met the coach accidently and join the Korean national ski-jump team. He didn’t like Korea before because he thought Korea gave up him. But after meeting good people and feel the love of the motherland, he forgives his mother and country. As a result, he become Korean citizen. All the members of the national team practice so hard and with their hearts. With all of their efforts, they go to the World Cup. But all other countries’ players laugh at them and they get into some bad accident too. Eventually, they fail to get good score. It wasn’t fair play. They dissapoint. But they never give up their dream to go on Olympics and get medals. Without any storing support from the government, they always try hard and practice hard. Later they got powerful and got many medals.

 

It is really touching movie how hard it was for the national team members to practice without any support. And also it give us time to thin about intercountry adoption problem. Several people who had experience like intercountry adoption, have serious problem in their life and the motherland do have resposibility for that,

 Anyway, the movie ‘Take off’ is a great movie to watch!.

Sunny(2011)

hello there.

I’m going to introduce you some Korean movies.

Hope you enjoy!

 

The second movie that I’m going to introuduce is ‘Sunny’

It is released at may the forth of 2011. The director is Hyung-chul Kang. He has directed famous movie like ‘Scandal Makers’. The main actors and atresses are Yu-Hojeong, Jin-Heekyung, Shim-eunkyung, and Kang-sora. It is mainly about girls’ friendship story so main charcters are all girls.

Sunny was a hit movie which gathered about 7 million audience. It is the 14^th the popular Korean movie by so far.

 

 The plot of Sunny is basically about the main character Nami’s highschool memory. Nami is a mother of a highschool girl, wife, and house keeper. Just normal woman in these day. Some day she visit a hospital and coincidentally she met her old best fried Chun-hwa. Chun-hwa is experiencing a really bad cancer. Nami and Chun-haw begin to recall the old good memories about their friendship.

Nami, the main character, lived in country. But she move to the city and begin new life at the city. It is all new to her and she try to adjust the city life. At the school, she met new friends. They are Chun-hwa, Jang-mi, Jin-hee, Gum-ok and Bok-hee. They soon became best friends. They are always together. They play together, they study toghter, they just stay toghter!. But later, they got graduate from the highschool. And at that time, the coummunication didn’t develop like tody, so they lost each other.

 So the grown-up Nami try to find all the girls for Chun-hwa, since Chun-hwa is going to die soon because of the cancer. So Nami DO find friends. Lots of things changed. They dreamed bing when they were in highschool, but the reality was not that rosy for them. The friends had suffer a lot of troubles in life. But when they met they felt the deep connection in them and there good friendship. Later Chun-hwa dies. The all the friends stay in the funeral, and they dance the song Sunny which they practiced when they were in the highschool. The movie ends!

 

 It is a good movie that makes you think about your friendship. And one of the reason that the movie hitted I think is that it recall the memory of 80s and 90s for middle age people. It is really digitalized these days and it is comportable. But it is sad when we think about the old days when people coummicate more by heart. It seem pretty heartless world with latest devices.

 

‘Sunny’ is a good home drama movie for young people to think about the affection of analog and middle age people to feel the good memories about their young lives!