Korean Films

Lovely Rivals

Title: Lovely Rivals
Also Known As: Yeoseonsaeng VS Yeojeja
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2004

Casts:
Lee Ji Hoon | Lee Se Young | Yeum Jung Ah

Sypnosis:
It's a battle for love between bitter rivals: a primary school teacher...and her twelve year-old student? From Jang Kyu Sung, director of the hit comedy My Teacher, Mr. Kim, comes Lovely Rivals, a hilarious and bittersweet comedy about an unlikely love triangle. Yeom Jung Ah (co-star of A Tale of Two Sisters, and winner of the 2004 Best Supporting Actress Award at the Dae-Jong Film Festival) is Yoe Mi-Ok, a lazy elementary school teacher who longs for a bigger and better teaching job. Thanks to her fiery and sometimes mean personality, Mi-Ok is unpopular with everyone in school. For herself, she couldn't care less – that is, until she meets the handsome new teacher (Lee Jee Hoon) and instantly falls in love!

Mi-Ok pretends to be kind and sweet to win his heart, but romantic competition arrives in a surprisingly pint-sized package: Ko Mi-Nam (Lee Se Young), one of Mi-Ok's students, and a romantic rival to be reckoned with! A recent transfer from another school, Mi-Nam is precocious both physically and mentally, and is determined to expose Mi-Ok's true personality for all to see! The two "women" engage in an escalating war, but beneath their battles there are lessons to be learned. Can Mi-Ok rediscover what it truly means to be a teacher? With a top cast, winning characters, and heartfelt laughs, Lovely Rivals is a surprising and genuinely crowd-pleasing comedy that's sure to entertain!

Review:
I love this movie -- it's hilarious!

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Credit: HopeAndCore

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or at Crunchyroll:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

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01. I've Told Every Little Star / Linda Scott
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10. Valse No.8 in A Flat Major Op.64, No.3 / Samson Francois
11. Still Got The Blues / Gary Moore
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22. ??
23. ???? ???
24. I've Told Every Little Star (Reprise) / Linda Scott

CREDITS

Sypnosis: YesAsia
Video Trailer: HopeAndCore - YouTube
Video On-Line: Sinnimi-VEOH
Movie Soundtrack: Locjan

Summer Scent

Title: Summer Scent
Also Known As: Summer Aroma
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English
Genre: Romance, Drama
Episodes: 20
Broadcast Period: 2003-Jul-07 to 2003-Sept-09
Rating: 5/5

Casts:
Song Seung Hun as Yoo Min-woo
Son Yeh Jin as Shim Hye-won
Ryu Jin as Park Jung-jae
Han Ji Hye as Park Jung-ah
Shin Ae as So Eun-hye
Jo Eun Sook as Oh Jang-mi
Ahn Jung Hoon as Ji Dae-poong
Kim Hae Sook as Min-woo's mother

Sypnosis:
Yoo Min-woo's (Song Seung Heon) first love was Soh Eun-hye (Shin Ae). No love was greater than the love between these two...until Eun-hye get's into a car accident. Eun-hye dies...leaving one thing left behind...her heart. Shim Hye-won (Son Yeh Jin) has suffered from a terrible heart disease ever since childhood. Miraculously she finds that she will be obtaining a heart from a donor, Soh Eun-hye.

Suffering from the pain of a heartache, Min-woo goes to Paris to study...the memories of Eun-hye still rest in his heart. When he returns to Korea, fate takes a turn and brings Hye-won and Min-woo together. When the two first meet, Hye-won's heart (Eun-hye's heart), oddly beats faster when she is around Min-woo.

Park Jung-jae (Ryu Jin) is Hye-won's boyfriend. Park Jung-ah (Han Ji Hye) is Jung-jae's sister and she meets Min-woo in Italy and falls for him...

Hye-won doesn't know why or what she feels when she's with Min-woo...and Min-woo feels guilt toward Eun-hye, because the feeling of love rises once again as he continues to see Hye-won...

Review:
One of the best dramas I've ever watched.

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CREDIT: catchafallingstar

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01. Main Title
02. bi mil - Jung In Ho
03. Missing U - Seo Jin Young
04. uh jjuh myun - Seo Jin Young
05. yuh reum hyang gi - Jung In Ho
06. Serenade (Inst.)(Guitar)
07. Second Romance - Seo Jin Young
08. yuh reum hyang gi 2 (Inst.)
09. doo bun jjae sarang - Seo Jin Young
10. uh jjuh myun (Inst.)(Piano)
11. Serenade - Yoo Mi Sook
12. bi mil (Inst.)(Piano)
13. doo bun jjae sarang (Inst.)(Piano&Guitar)
14. Love - Seo Jin Young
15. bi mil (Inst.)(Guitar)
16. sarang han da myun - Jung In Ho & Seo Jin Young
17. yuh woo bi (Inst.)
18. Love (Inst.)(Piano&Guitar)

CREDITS
Sypnosis: Dramawiki
Video Trailer: Catchafallingstar-YouTube
Video On-Line: Mackie2001-VEOH
Drama Soundtrack: Bedpotter / Locjan

A Perfect Match

Title: A Perfect Match
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Realeased: 2002
Rating: 3 /5

Casts:
Shin Eun-kyung
Jung Jun-ho
Gong Hyung-jin
Kim Yeo-jin.

Sypnosis:

Hyo Jin is a marriage consultant. She organises dates between people too busy to socialise and find their own `Perfect Match`. It is a job she gains much satisfaction from and one she is good at. Her advice and her own personal life are not synchronous however - she has an unseen boyfriend whose presence is only expressed by a photo on her desk at work and spends most nights with friends on their own search for love.

Review:

The character that Shin Eun-kyung played in this movie is somewhat similar to the recent american movie "hitch" -- just similar but not exactly. Similar in a sense that they're both a matchmaker.

I've actually skipped a few scenes in the beginning of the movie. It's funny but not as romantic as I've imagined it would be.

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Download the Movie Soundtrack:
Kim Hyun Sung - cinema cinema
Park Jin Young - Swing Baby
Aaron Carter - Get Up On Ya Feet

CREDITS
Sypnosis: Heroic Cinema
Video On-Line: ForeverGirl-YouTube
Movie Soundtrack: Locjan

The Host

Title: The Host
Language: Korean
Subtitle: English
Genre: Sci-Fi, Action
Realeased:
Rating: 5 /5

Casts:

Park Hee-bong - Byeon Hee-bong
Park Gang-du - Song Kang-ho
Park Nam-il - Park Hae-il
Park Nam-joo - Bae Doona
Park Hyun-seo - Ko Ah-seong

Sypnosis:

Gang-du (SONG Kang-ho) works at a food-stand on the banks of the Han River. Dozing on the job, he is awakened by his daughter, Hyun-seo ( KO A-sung), who is angry with him for missing a teacher-parent meeting at school. As Gang-du walks out to the riverbank with a delivery, he notices that a large crowd of people have gathered, taking pictures and talking about something hanging from the Han River Bridge. The otherwise idyllic landscape turns suddenly to bedlam, when a terrifying creature climbs up onto the riverbank and begins to crush and eat people. Gang-du and his daughter run for their lives, but suddenly the being grabs Hyun-seo and disappears back into the river. The government announces that the monstrous thing apparently is the Host of an unidentified virus. Having feared the worst, Gang-du receives a phone call from his daughter who is frightened, but very much alive. Gang-du soon makes plans to infiltrate the forbidden zone near the Han River to rescue his daughter from the clutches of the horrifying Host.

Review:
I love this movie. I highly recommend this one!

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CREDIT: TheAvengingFist

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You can also download the movie:
The Host Part 1
The Host Part 2

Download the Complete Movie Soundtrack
01. Prologue - deu nul beun han gang, gwe mool eun ja ran da
02. baek joo eh dae seub gyuk
03. jab hi ji ahn neun son
04. dduh na neun ga jok
05. no ran virus
06. gol baeng ee @
07. gwe mool house
08. uh doom sok eh hyun suh
09. han gang chan ga (B4-A3)
10. bit sok eh gum moon
11. hyun suh ya!
12. hut chong jil
13. bae go peun hyung je
14. bae go peun gwe mool
15. shi goong chang eh oh noo ee
16. sae byuk, pok woo geu ri go dae hyul too
17. jut jeun shin moon ji
18. soo bae jun dan
19. bi gwa se gi ta so deuk
20. do bal ee eh chun jae
21. hee mi han message
22. guh book ee
23. we ro oon jil joo Ver.1
24. sae shik goo Ver.1
25. No Virus
26. won hyo dae gyo nuh muh ro
27. so nyuh, dal ri da
28. bi myung
29. dah ji ahn neun son
30. Agent Yellow
31. noh eul soo uhb neun son
32. jae hwe
33. we roo oon hwa yum byung
34. shin goong
35. sae shik goo Ver.2
36. han gang chan ga (Trumpet Ver.)
37. buh ryuh jin no rae
38. noon oh neun mae jum
39. han gang chan ga (Vocal Ver.)
40. we ro oon jil joo Ver. 2

CREDITS:
Sypnosis: The Host Official Website
Video Trailer: The Avenging Fist & Citysoundtrack- YouTube
Video On-Line: The First Knight - Crunchyroll
Movie Soundtrack:Locjan

Biscuit Teacher and Star Candy

Also known as: Hardtack Teacher and Star Candy (YesAsia) / Hello My Teacher
Genre: Drama, School, Romance
Episodes: 16
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2005-04-13 to 2005-06-02
Rating: 5/5

Cast

Gong Hyo Jin as Na Bo-ri
Gong Yoo as Park Tae-in
Kim Da Hyun as Ji Hyun-woo
Choi Yeo Jin as Noh Jem-ma

Synopsis

Na Bori (Gong Hyo Jin) is a 25 year old woman who desperately wants to be a teacher at the high school she was kicked out of due misunderstanding with her teachers over injuring a group of male classmates. After getting her GED, she rejects job offers from other high schools and works on becoming a teacher at her old high school so she could work side by side with her high school love interest, the art teacher Ji Hyun Woo (Kim Da Hyun). However, the only thing that enables her to get the coveted job is by signing a contract to essentially babysit Park Tae In (Gong Yoo), a troublemaker who attends the same high school. Tae In, a lonely youth, quickly becomes the "jjang", or "king" of the high school, and enjoys playing mean tricks on Bori. Noh Jemma (Choi Yeo Jin) is jealous of the relationship between Bori and Tae In, and goes out of her way to get Bori kicked out...

Review

One good thing about this drama was that they didn't just focus on the main characters but moved along with the rest of the casts with a share of their own li'l stories. Gong Yoo's acting here was superb which I'm sure have been noted by a lot of viewers already.