Hallyu

Plugging lang po~!
Our new EBS show <외국인을 위한 실용 한국어 (초급)> Practical Korean for Foreigners(Basic Course) started airing on TV last Monday, Oct. 19 and will be on air ’til February 10, 2010.
Our first show, which was also a beginner course, dealt mostly with basic Korean grammar and usage. This time it will be more about conversational Korean,  [...]

Hiring talents to play bit roles for upcoming Korean movie, to be starred by Song Kang-ho and Kang Dong-won (tentative title ‘의형제’ - Sworn Brothers).
The movie, scheduled to hit the screens early 2010, will start shooting by mid-May.
6~8 female southeast asians (pref. from Vietnam, Philippines, and Thailand) needed to play the roles of  migrant women,(married to Koreans).  [...]

I DEFINITELY need to watch this movie, sadly not through the big screen. A lot has been going around that I can’t even remember the last movie I watched at the theater. Well I guess, watching it from HanaTV will do. :(
The Good, The Bad, The Weird, popularly known here in Korea as “놈놈놈” (Nom, Nom, Nom), [...]

Beverly Hills + Old Kangwondo home = Topstar Won Bin’s home.
It’s the first line of the latest news about hallyu actor Won Bin at the moment. The house Won Bin has built for his parents, grabbed the 2008 Korean Architecture Award (Residential Category), 22nd of last month. So it’s actually not that “new”, but has [...]

That’s what they’re calling 14 year old  ”강릉소녀”(Gang-neung girl), Kim Ga-ram, after her appearance in Star King yesterday. I wasn’t able to watch the said show but saw “강릉소녀” (Gang-neung Girl) on the 4th spot of Yahoo! Korea’s list of today’s top searches, so I looked her up and found this news clip (in Korean).
“Gang-neung Girl” sang the first piece [...]