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<~J|-so0>435 days ago (Jan 01, 2009 4:15:46)
helo,how are you Ms. Bae Jong 0k.. You know I miss you so much.. Take care always and happy new year I love you...mwuahhhh
<~J|-so0>445 days ago (Dec 22, 2008 1:11:45)
uhmm Merry Christmas and Happy New Year,hope you read all my message to you!! I love you..
<~J|-so0>445 days ago (Dec 22, 2008 12:47:42)
Bae Jong 0k pls do more dramas and movies and I will 4 that! I love you..
<~J|-so0>445 days ago (Dec 22, 2008 12:46:23)
helo.. pls posts some picture of Bae Jong 0k this 2008-2009,she is a good actress and beautiful and i love her! i love you Bae Jong 0k,i don't care if you're in 40 above age but you are so beautiful and all want to say to you is i love you,take care always and god bless you!
Nominees Announced for the 2008 Korea Drama Festival Awards
Nominees for the 2008 Korea Drama Festival Awards, scheduled for November 1st at Jinju, South Gyeongsang Province, were announced yesterday on October 7. For the best acting award, nominees include respected actress Kim Hye-ja of “Angry Mom,” charismatic actor Choi Soo-jong of “Dae Joyoung,” acclaimed actors Kim Myung-min of “White Tower” and Jo Jae-hyun of “New Heart,” and top actresses Bae Jong-ok of “My Man’s Woman” and Kim Ha-neul of “On Air.” Nominees for the best drama category include “Legend,” “Angry Mom,” “Dae Joyoung,” and “Gourmet.” Life time achievement nominees are Choi Bul-am, Baek Il-seop, Na Moon-hee, and Kang Bu-ja. The first international festival for a single genre, the festival will feature a wide variety of interesting events, such as drama photo exhibition at the Jinju National Museum, Asian drama screening show, an international forum on Korean dramas, and a talent search.
Ajumma now depicted as smart, strong, cool
Call it ajumma power. Ajumma is Korean for middle-aged women, and ajumma characters are currently in full control of the screen ― both television and film. But they are no longer portrayed as aggressive or hot-tempered, for example, as a woman dashing for a vacant seat in the subway or elbowing other ajumma for the last grocery item on sale. They no longer wear loose floral-print pants or sport curly hair. Their aggressiveness is presented rather as an endearing trait ― as enthusiasm for life and full tolerance of others. Jung-geum (played by Bae Jong-ok) from MBC TV’s “The Unique Park Jung-geum” is one example. Jung-geum is a 38-year-old detective in charge of investigating violent crimes and a single mom living with a child. Her divorce transformed her into an uncompromising, tough woman. In one episode, she shouts fearlessly at a knife-wielding gangster, “Stab me if you can. I’m just ashamed that I have to deal with a loser like you.” The gangster turns tail and flees. Lee Hyung-seon is the producer of Park Jung-geum. “In the past, divorcees were typically cast as characters who owned a flower shop or a grocery store,” Lee said. “Making Jung-geum a detective was an attempt to break the biased view people have toward Korean ajumma.” Other ajumma in the spotlight are Bok-soo (Kim Hye-sun) and Hwa-sin (Oh Hyun-kyung), two lead characters in SBS TV’s “First Wives’ Club.” Viewers like the characters ― the weekend drama has attracted an average of 25 percent of viewers watching television. MBC TV’s “Last Scandal,” which aired its first episode last Saturday, also features a 39-year-old ajumma ― Seon-hee (Choi Jin-sil). She becomes a single mom overnight when her husband dumps her for another woman. Seon-hee, now the head of the family, is portrayed as brave and intelligent. She has two jobs ― a part-time maid and a voice-over talent at a broadcasting station. In the show she was pretty in high school but due to life’s trials, Seon-hee has let herself go. “The spiritedness of modern housewives does not just include rebelling against their mothers-in-law,” said Moon Hee-jung, the drama’s scriptwriter. “They [modern housewives] contain a progressive spirit.” The character Seon-hee was created to bring out an active and positive ajumma. “The fact that ajumma are spotlighted on TV and film reflects society’s growing interest on the special force that ajumma have ― their activeness, comprehensiveness and problem-solving abilities,” said Lee Tae-gon, the producer of Last Scandal. Film columnist Lee Yun-jung agrees. She says the greater role ajumma have on screen reflects their larger role in real life. “Compared to the past, housewives play a greater role in families today,” Lee said.
'Hwangjiny' Ha Ji Won wins Golden Chest Prizes Best Actress Award
KBS announced on the 5th that Ha Ji Won who played the role of Hwangjiny in the KBS drama series won the Best Actress Award at the 32nd Annual Golden Chest Prizes. The Golden Chest International Television Festival hosted by BNT (Bulgarian National Television) is one of Europe's most prestigious international festivals for television dramas and documentaries. Actors are nominated by the Union of the Bulgarian Actors. In 2005, Bae Jong Ohk also received the Best Actress Award through the KBS drama "The House I Lived In."
Mining new ground on an age-old topic
‘To wives, husbands’ affairs are like a car accident ... They are by no means intended. They just happen.’ The latest drama by Kim Su-hyun, 64, one of Korea’s top scriptwriters, seemed so realistic that women all across Korea began to suspect their husbands were cheating. Her recent 24-episode work, “The Woman of My Man,” starring Kim Hee-ae, Bae Jong-ok and Kim Sang-jung, is about an extramarital love affair. But in Kim’s signature style, the drama was not predictable. “I didn’t want this story to have a conventional ending,” she said. According to AGB Nielsen Media Research, the last episode of the drama, on June 19, ranked first in overall viewership that day, attracting 37.6 percent of the people watching TV. When asked about how she keeps viewers hooked until the last minute, Kim said, “Unlike other scripts with the same theme, I don’t drag the stories on.” Normally, she said, a drama starts off with a couple meeting, then falling in love. One or both then have an affair while becoming terrified of being caught. “I cut out the ‘falling in love’ process and started right away with the actual extramarital relationship,” she said. Writing about such matters is troublesome for most scriptwriters, because the path is so well-trodden. But at the same time, affairs remain a popular topic. Kim spices up her stories with dangerous passion, skate-over-thin-ice tension and the use of unusual language. “Whether married or single, most women are afraid their lovers might desert them one day,” Kim said. “The public gave this drama a lot of attention because it focused on an issue that most are interested in.” The love affair between the a middle-aged man (played by actor Kim Sang-jung) and his wife’s best friend (Kim Hee-ae) seemed like it would last for eternity, with a passionate, burning love. After the wife (Bae) found out about the affair, she began to get closer to a younger classmate from school, hoping to extract revenge. (However, she didn’t want to hurt the classmate, who loves her, by having a full affair.) The love affair involving the husband ended with the man expressing his sorrow and regret to his wife. To Kim, that didn’t necessarily mean the husband and wife would be reunited. Kim leaves it to the viewers to decide. “If I chose between one of the two women and called it a victory, the script would have become didactic and banal,” Kim said. She added, “Each of the two [Hee-ae and Jong-ok], take up 50 percent of my heart equally.” The woman who snatched her best friend’s husband would normally be seen as a wicked woman and a wrongdoer. Instead, Kim portrays her as a soul having deep emotional pain. When she ends the affair, she tells the man she’s not disappointed with him, but doesn’t feel secure around him. Kim, who is married, said she believes extramarital love affairs are ephemeral and transient. “To wives, husbands having extra-marital affairs are like a car accident,” Kim said. “Though it is nothing like fate or destiny, they are by no means intended. They just happen.” Kim mentioned that society has become more liberal on this matter and that it is a natural part of life. Kim said “The Woman of My Man” is a drama that shows a facet of today’s everyday lives, reflecting a society in which extra-marital affairs have become commonplace. “I didn’t denounce or overstate on this theme,” Kim said. She added, “I’m just a scriptwriter and wrote what was really out there.” By Yang Sung-hee, Park Jeong-ho JoongAng Ilbo
