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Puppy love in the country

BooksMar 10, 2011

The Camellias By Kim Yu-jeong (Jimoondang, 5,000 won) Revealing author Kim Yu-jeong’s mastery of colloquial dialect and his commanding insight into the charms of peasants, “The Camellias” tells a ...
Used book bliss in Seoul

BooksMar 4, 2011

Cheap prices, personal service and the smell of musty pages draw in lovers of literature Though not fresh and new, used books have their own charm. It could be their faded pages, old fashioned cover...
Box Office

FilmMar 4, 2011

Hanji (Korea) Opening March 17 Drama. Directed by Im Kwon-taek. Documentary producer Ji-won (Kang Soo-yeon) is making a non-fiction film about hanji, Korea’s traditional handmade paper. While trave...
How director Gore Verbinski wrangled ‘Rango’

FilmMar 4, 2011

“Animation isn’t a genre” like Westerns, film noir, romance or horror, Gore Verbinski was saying. “It’s just a technique for telling a story.” So when the man behind the hugely popular “Pirates of t...
‘Adjustment Bureau’ aims to be latest hit based on stories of Philip K. Dick

FilmMar 4, 2011

Philip K. Dick had a flair for spinning science fiction scenarios that were well within the orbit of paranoia. In his novels and short stories, he addressed the tricks of memory and the quirks of rea...
[New books] New Books

BooksMar 4, 2011

Swiftly paced satire Pym By Mat Johnson (Spiegal & Grau, $24) A swiftly paced satire, Mat Johnson's “Pym” skewers Edgar Allan Poe, race in America, the snack-food industry, academia, landscape pa...
20 questions for author Kim Edwards

BooksMar 4, 2011

“Labyrinth walker” and award-winning author of “The Memory Keeper’s Daughter,” Kim Edwards talks about allowing oneself to head out into uncertain territory ― be it in the middle of a lake or the mid...
Children’s book fair winner blurs line between fiction and non-fiction

BooksFeb 25, 2011

What does it take to inform kids about a wide range of non-fiction topics? Understanding kids’ sensibility to language and their use of language, children’s book writer Kim Hee-kyung answers. Child...
No Oscar love for casting directors

FilmFeb 25, 2011

Some of Hollywood’s most fabled directors, Elia Kazan and Robert Altman among them, have said that casting accounts for roughly 90 percent of a movie’s ultimate success or failure. Yet at Sunday’s A...
National Museum Exhibition Calendar

TheaterFeb 25, 2011

“Ethnic Earthenware from Asian’s heart”: Clay is a modeling material that can be easily used and placed, and a great many Asian people, by following the dispensation of nature, have made a variety of...
The best (and worst) supporting Oscars hosts

FilmFeb 25, 2011

Will James Franco pull a poem out of his tux, or read an excerpt from one of his short stories? Will Anne Hathaway break into song? Will the two of them, virgin co-hosts of the 83rd Academy Awards,...
Box-office rankings

FilmFeb 25, 2011

Feb. 18 - Feb. 20 1. Aideul (Children) Opened Feb. 17 Directed by Lee Gyu-man Starring Park Yong-woo, Ryu Seung-ryong 2. Late Autumn Opened Feb. 17 Directed by Kim Tae-yong Starring Hyun Bin...
Box office

FilmFeb 25, 2011

Shotgun Love (Korea) Opening March 10 Comedy. Directed by Jeong Woo-cheol. Home shopping model Sang-yeol (Im Chang-jeong) has a huge crush on his colleague So-yeon (Kim Gyu-ri). Unlike Sang-yeol, w...
New books

BooksFeb 25, 2011

Seven authors and rain Rain in Seven Colors By Kim Mi-wol et al. (Yolimwon Publishing Group, 12,000 won) Seven female writers, all in their 30s, together have published an anthology of short stor...
[Korea steady seller] Living in the post war period

BooksFeb 25, 2011

Living in the post war period A Toy City By Lee Dong-ha (Jimoondang, 5,000 won) Written from the perspective of a young boy in elementary school, “A Toy City” shows what it was like to live in th...