TV Review:Korean Girls’ Beauty Secrets
By 10 Media on April 26, 2013 | 11:40 am | 0 Comments
Get It Beauty, Korea’s #1 beauty variety show, makes cosmetics accessible by giving tips on makeup and high-quality products available for reasonable prices. Back in the States, one of my stress relief activities was taking a short trip to Sephora—the perfect place to kill time by trying tons of beauty products from different brands. Sadly, when I flew
Discovery Photo: Living History
By 10 Media on April 3, 2013 | 8:00 am | 1 Comment
His generation catapulted South Korea from poverty into G20 economic status. In this photo taken in the Seoul Metro, the Ajeossi sits above the youthful detachment around him with a quiet confidence. Taken with a Canon AE-1 on 35mm HP5+ film and developed with Ilfosol 3. Submitted by Spencer Fleming on the theme of “living history.” Spencer Fleming ran
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Television: Dad! Where are you going?
By Hugh Lee on March 29, 2013 | 7:00 pm | 0 Comments
MBC’s new variety show allows celebrity dads to learn how to bond with their kids by sending them on trips to various places around the country. Early this year, MBC began to air its new variety show, Dad! Where are you going? (아빠, 어디가?). The show is about five celebrity dads, each of whom struggle to find time to hang out with their kids. The show
April 2013 Movie Reviews – Stoker, The Last Stand, and Fear Eats The Seoul
By Paul Matthews on March 26, 2013 | 8:00 am | 1 Comment
Stoker Directed by Park Chan-wook Hollywood debuts of foreign directors can be occasions of wonder or of disappointment. This Spring has seen both with the releases of Stoker and The Last Stand. Stoker is the tale of a girl, India (Mia Wasikowaska), who has just lost her father, and the estranged uncle (Matthew Goode) who arrives to offer comfort to her and her
March 2013 Movie Reviews – Die Hard, Waikiki Brothers, and the Thieves
By Paul Matthews on February 26, 2013 | 8:00 am | 2 Comments
Words by Paul Matthews A Good Day To Die Hard Directed by John Moore Bruce Willis has come back to the big screen for his fifth adventure as John McClane as Hollywood tries to squeeze a little more life out of this long-running franchise. This time we’re in Russia as McClane tries to help his son, Jack (played by Jai Courtney), out of a spot of trouble
TV Review: Soo Ae returns with a new look as a villainous character in Queen of Ambition.
By 10 Media on February 25, 2013 | 3:55 pm | 0 Comments
Beloved actress Soo Ae stars in SBS drama Yawang: Queen of Ambition as a depraved woman who will do anything to escape poverty and start a new life. In most Korean melodramas, the female character is portrayed as innocent and vulnerable, someone in desperate need of help from a prince to whom she can devote herself. In some dramas, she is portrayed as a hurtful
Korea’s top screenwriter enters her 70s with another hit story in “Childless Comfort”
By 10 Media on January 27, 2013 | 12:15 pm | 0 Comments
Words by Soyeon Kimberly Yoon The “Shakespeare of our age”, Kim Soo-hyun, faces a new challenge in screenwriting a big family drama. There is an old saying in Korean: “무자식상팔자.” This literally means “childless comfort”—that maybe one is better off without kids, because he or she will be free of problems and worries. With her newest
February 2013 Movie Reviews – Life of Pi and Korean Movies
By Paul Matthews on January 22, 2013 | 8:00 am | 2 Comments
Life of Pi Directed by Ang Lee Yann Martel’s book Life Of Pi seemed like an impossible film to make when it was first published in 2001, but thanks to the talents of Ang Lee and the progression in computer graphics, we’re treated to the incredible story of a zoo, a shipwreck, a boy, his faith and his survival. Pi Patel (Irrfan Khan) is visited at his
January 2013 Movie Reviews
By Paul Matthews on December 28, 2012 | 8:00 am | 1 Comment
Words by Paul Matthews --------------- Dredd Directed by Pete Travis Back in 1995, the world was treated to a horrible adaptation of one of Britain’s favorite comic characters with the Sylvester Stallone vehicle Judge Dredd. Now the helmeted justice-giver is back again in an attempt to reboot the cinematic adventures of Mega-City One’s most feared
Television: MBC drama attempts to redefine rape in South Korea
By 10 Media on December 19, 2012 | 8:00 am | 1 Comment
Words by Soyeon Kimberly Yoon Despite the uproar, MBC drama I Miss You (보고싶다) includes depiction of the traumatic experience of a 15-year-old girl in order to call attention to Korea’s weak rape law. Recently, rape has been one of the top keywords in local news headlines. The number of victims is constantly increasing along with suicide rates, and
