<div>To add to the list of good Korean movies:</div>
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<div>Under "Tearjerkers":</div>
<div>The Classic (클래식) -- a love story but with a really interesting backdrop of 1970s-80s S. Korea</div>
<div>A Family (가족) -- a daughter's involvement w/ the mafia affects the entire family</div>
<div>My Brother (우리 형) -- setting in gyeongsang-do; interesting take on Confucian familial relationships in a dysfunctional family</div>
<div>Failan (파이란) -- the short life of a Chinese female migrant worker in Korea; the female lead is actually a Chinese actress</div>
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<div>When I Was Nine (아홉살인생) is a good movie for showing rural and very poor children (in gyeongsang-do), it could go under tearjerkers or drama.</div>
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<div>Also, Korean romantic comedies are pretty well-done, and although the plot formula can be pretty repetitive, they're good and often show some interesting aspects of "typical" Korean culture...</div>
<div>some good romantic comedies:</div>
<div>My Little Bride (어린 신부) -- because of a grandfather's "dying" wish, a 15-year-old high school girl has to marry a college-age family friend</div>
<div>100 Days with Mr. Arrogant (내 사랑 싸가지) -- silly high school movie; a senior high school girl kicks a can into a rich, spoiled college boy's car and has to become his slave for 100 days...</div>
<div>Jenny, Juno (제니, 주노) -- same director as "My Little Bride"; criticized as trivializing and romanticizing teenage pregnancy-but also one of the first Korean movies that even talks about the topic</div>
<div>Please Teach Me English (영어완전정복) -- with the current obsession with learning English as a backdrop, two people meet at an English hagwon</div>
<div>Innocent Steps (댄서의 순정) -- Moon Geung Young, the actress from My Little Bride, stars in this as a Chinese-Korean illegal immigrant who </div>
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<div>A really interesting comedy/drama movie is Super Family (간큰가족), which has been compared to the German movie "Goodbye, Lenin"... the family has to pretend that Korea's been reunified because of the wishes of their dying father/grandfather.
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<div>Also, not to miss is Marathon (말아톤)....based on the true story of an autistic marathon runner/triathlete...</div>
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<div>Some other helpful links:</div>
<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.hancinema.net/" target="_blank">http://www.hancinema.net/</a></div>
<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.koreanfilm.org/" target="_blank">http://www.koreanfilm.org/</a></div>
<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.hancinema.net/" target="_blank"></a> </div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/26/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Cedar Bough Saeji</b> <<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:umyang@gmail.com" target="_blank">umyang@gmail.com</a>
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<div>Wow, that sounds fun! </div>
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<div>I think picking categories of Korean film and a representative film from each could be good. I have only a watchers perspective on this, and don't/haven't watch(ed) older movies, but could I suggest that essential movies or categories could be the following. I am sure you'll get a lot of advice from different people and there will be common themes emerging sooner or later.
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<div>1. Banchikwang / The Quiet Family (<strong>comedy but sort of sad</strong>)</div>
<div>2. Turning Gate / O! Sujung) (<strong>aimless</strong> and weird sex related movies)</div>
<div>3. Yellow Hair / Old Boy / No Sympathy for Mr Vengeance (<strong>shockingly violent</strong>)</div>
<div>4. My Wife is a Gangster/ Guns and Talks (<strong>comedy-mafia</strong> movie)</div>
<div>5. Swiri/JSA (<strong>relations with DPRK</strong>)</div>
<div>6. ---- (<strong>horror movie</strong>, but I haven't watched enough to choose one, but it should be a female ghost movie)</div>
<div>7. Chunhyang / Chihwaseon / Musa (<strong>historical</strong> drama )</div>
<div>8. The Way Home (cause I can't think of any others to show traditional farming life)</div>
<div>9. ----- (<strong>tear-jerker</strong> where someone dies or darn close anyway... maybe a dying of Leukemia one...since I hate these films, I can't recommend one)</div>
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<div>This leaves out some famous films including 'Oasis' which is my all-time favorite Korean movie, the high school/early college waste of time flicks that keep pouring out, Koreans certainly loved 'Taegukgi', and also the cold war films like 'Shilmido' but I really have to go back to writing a paper on FDI vs. Loans in the history of Korean/Chinese Economic Development.
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<div>Have fun planning such an interesting class! I'm sure it'll be a big hit. </div><span>
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<div>Cedar<br> </div></span></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Anne Hilton<br>Fulbright ETA Program Coordinator<br>KAEC / Fulbright Building<br>168-15 Yomni-dong, Mapo-gu<br>Seoul 121-874<br>South Korea<br>
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