[KS] Korean Shakespeare-movies or -dramas?

[Frank Hoffmann]

Yes, there sure must be very many Shakespeare adaptions in Korea --
as one would expect, given the unbeatable genius of Shakespeare and
his great popularity in Korea. In the 1980s, when going to lots of
Korean plays, I remember to have seen one that was based on Romeo and
Juliet (but can't help with details now).

Jan, look here, for example:
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21106649-5010940,00.html
about a Korean adaption of A Midsummer Night's Dream.




and here:
http://londonkoreanlinks.net/2006/12/04/oh-tae-suk-romeo/
about O T'ae-sôk's seemingly interesting adaption 
of Romeo and Juliet -- into a Korean setting, 
Juliet with Soju and bean paste.



You may also look at the (very popular) 2007 MBC 
series "The 1st Shop of Coffee Prince." Story 
line reminds of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night."



Greetings,
Frank

-- 
--------------------------------------
Frank Hoffmann
http://koreaweb.ws
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://koreanstudies.com/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreanstudies.com/attachments/20080719/53b577ce/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: P185467D5.png
Type: image/png
Size: 158376 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://koreanstudies.com/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreanstudies.com/attachments/20080719/53b577ce/attachment.png>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: P185467D5 1.png
Type: image/png
Size: 582862 bytes
Desc: not available
URL: <http://koreanstudies.com/pipermail/koreanstudies_koreanstudies.com/attachments/20080719/53b577ce/attachment-0001.png>