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Celebrity Volunteer Group Reaches Out to Disabled Children
"People who Care," a volunteer organization made up of celebrities, has set out to help children with disabilities. The volunteer group held a special ceremony to mark the beginning of its new sisterhood with the Social Welfare Society and the Amsa Rehabilitation Center on September 29. Nine members of the organization, including Kim Won-hee, Kim Jeong-eun, Kim Yoo-mi, Ahn Jae-wook, Eugene, Park Cheol, Yoo Da-hoon, Jeong Sun-kyung and Lee Kyung-ho, attended the cremony. They donated study assistant equipment such as a touch PDP and spent time with the children. Actress Kim Jeong-eun, who is the publicity envoy for the Social Welfare Society, said the disabled children are in desperate need of expensive equipment to assist their studies. She went on to ask the people to show their generosity. Meanwhile, popular TV host Kim Won-hee said the true meaning of sharing lies in providing the children with memories to cherish for a long time. She also shared her intent to visit the rehabilitation center on a regular basis with her fellow celebrity volunteers.
Kim Jung-eun to Narrate 'Wednesday Special' on KBS 1TV
Actress Kim Jung-eun, who recently starred in 'Forever the Moment,' a film about the heartbreaking real life story of Korea's national women's handball team, will narrate the moving story of China's young Olympic athletes in a special documentary. Kim will narrate the upcoming Wednesday special documentary on KBS 1TV entitled 'Reaching for the Gold Medal - The Young Athletes of China.' The documentary will air on February 20 at 11:30 p.m. The program is about the story of young athletes in China working hard to win medals at the upcoming summer Olympics in Beijing. For the poor young children of socialist China, winning an Olympic medal is one of the only ways to bring honor and wealth to their family. Medalists receive a house as well as a high-level government post from the state. Viewers can get a glimpse of the harsh realities of the Chinese athletes, who endure difficult training sessions without proper gym clothes and get through long days with just a single bowl of porridge to ease their hunger.
Handball ‘Sleeper’ Tops Box Office for Third Week
“Forever the Moment” tops box office figures for a third consecutive week. MK Pictures, the film’s producer, said Tuesday that the film has drawn 2.64 million viewers since its release on Jan. 10. It is based on the real story of the Korean women’s handball team, which won the silver medal in the Athens Olympics in 2004 after a neck-and-neck game with the world’s no. 1 Denmark that ran for 128 minutes including double overtime and a shoot-out. Directed by Lim Soon-rye, who also made “Waikiki Brothers” (2001), “Forever the Moment” stars Moon So-ri, Kim Jung-eun, Kim Ji-young, and Cho Eun-ji as players and Uhm Tae-woong as the coach. A sports movie on the surface, it is actually a human drama dealing with the life of people on the fringe of society. Few people expected the success of a film dealing with an unpopular sport and including no stars in its cast. In fact, producers had such difficulties attracting investors that they were unable to raise the entire budget until preview. With a preliminary re-match in women’s handball for the Beijing Olympics in Japan after the International Handball Federation found that Korea was victimized by an unfair referee’s decision in Asian preliminaries earlier in August, the movie was shown in Japan by the Korean Culture Center in Tokyo for local Korean residents and students. Kim Jung-eun attended the event to encourage Korean players.
Movie captures Athens Olympics handball drama
Mee-suk (Moon So-ri), a 34-year-old veteran handball player, wins a semi-professional handball tournament, but the same day she hears her team’s going to disband. That’s bad enough, but it’s nothing compared to four years ago when she won a gold medal at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992. When Mee-suk came back home proudly wearing her Olympic gold, the rest of the country seemed indifferent. Handball had not captured the imagination of the country. Mee-suk, starring in Yim Soon-rae’s film, “Forever the Moment,” which was released last Thursday, suffers even more setbacks. Her husband (Park Won-sang), a former handball player, runs away from debts brought on by a failed business, and Mee-suk starts working at a mall as a shop assistant. Mee-suk’s life takes a turn when Hye-kyung (Kim Jung-eun) takes over as the newly appointed national handball coach for the 2004 Athens Olympics. Hye-kyung persuades Mee-suk to come out of her retirement from the game and join the national team. Mee-suk agrees, only to find more tension when Hye-kyung gets ousted as coach. The younger team members dislike her coaching style. Hye-kyung is replaced by Seung-pil (Eom Tae-woong), her ex-boyfriend. Forever the Moment is based on the true story of the phenomenal story behind Korea’s women’s handball team. After the indifference to their gold in 1992 in Barcelona, the entire nation was transfixed when the team took on Denmark in the 2004 final in Athens. The game went down to a penalty shootout and the Danes held their nerve to win a famous victory. According to the Korea Film Commission, 558,213 people have seen the film as of Monday, making it the most popular film in Korea right now. What makes for compulsive sports viewing also makes for compelling cinematic drama, it seems. In 2004, most of the players were veterans in their early 30s. They were called the “ajumma squad,” or the housewife squad. Despite the gold in Barcelona, the Korean team was pretty much the underdog. There were only five semi-professional women’s handball teams in Korea back then, and players made just 20,000 won ($21.34) a day. The team even had to enlist retired players since there weren’t enough players for the Olympics. On the other hand, their rivals, Denmark, had 1,035 semi-professional teams. To make the story more authentic, the four lead actors ― Moon, Kim Jung-eun, Kim Jee-young and Cho Eun-ji (the goalkeeper) ― undertook hardcore training. They started last March, training at the Taereung Training Center and Helleniko Stadium in Athens, Greece. They practiced for three months, four days a week, seven to eight hours a day. They began with basic physical training and graduated to dribbling, passing and shooting. They even practiced difficult set plays. One of Denmark’s players even appears in the film, and when the Danes visited Korea last June to play at an international semi-professional tournament, they helped in the filming at the Samsan World Gymnasium in Incheon. “The film distinguishes itself from other sports dramas by bringing out the human story,” Yim pointed out. “Conventional sports-related films usually focus more on the dynamics that games provide,” he said. As coach, Eom also had to research his role thoroughly. “I constantly asked [the real] Coach Lim for advice,” Eom wrote in the film’s press release. “We [the crew and actors] went to many handball games so we could understand how the game works and how to move properly on the court,” Eom said. Reality was intensified by the involvement of two genuine commentators ― KBS announcer Choi Seung-don and Coach Kang Jae-won. During the 2004 finals, Choi and Kang said, “It’s a heroic battle between David and Goliath.” That struggle is captured in the film.
`Forever’ Loses Its Own Game
It's sweaty and teary, and preaches self-challenge. After a seven-year hiatus, director Lim Soon-rye (``Waikiki Brothers'' makes a comeback with ``Forever the Moment,'' the world's first handball movie inspired by the women's match at the 2004 At....
Korean Films Enter Fukuoka Asian Film Festival
The 21st Fukuoka Asian Film Festival opens June 29th and will run through July 8th in Fukuoka, Japan. This film festival started in 1987 to discover and nurture new filmmakers from all over Asia. This year, 14 films from nine nations will be intr....
<roda>183 days ago (May 23, 2008 7:15:25)
hola ms kim! you're really a great actress. from lovers in paris, to princess lulu until lovers! no wonder you're one of korea's best actresses!
<lovers>214 days ago (Apr 22, 2008 12:46:13)
Hello Ms. Kim..
I'm an avid fan of LOVERS.. it's now being aired here in the Philippines..
and I'm really in-love with your role.. Your such a very good actress..
GodBless you and Mr. Lee.. LSJ and you are such a LOvely couple..u ;)
<misty>220 days ago (Apr 16, 2008 6:05:20)
hello....kim...im your avid fun im cherrie..how do you do...i hope you would e mail me at my e mail ad...your such a great actress..im from the phillipines..
<isabel301>231 days ago (Apr 05, 2008 7:31:10)
iam a big fan of Lovers ....i wish kim jeong eun and lee seo jin will get married..i heard they're real life-lovers....wish them more love and happiness! Godbless you both! :)
