Korean English-language Press Update

I posted Bertolini's article, entitled, "Korean Films Left Out of Global Power Games" in the forum a week ago. Is it just me, or does Korea seem to be having really lackluster year compared with last year's offerings, which included the spectacular "The President's Last Bang", "Crying Fist", "Welcome to Dongmakgol", "You Are My Sunshine" and "Blue Swallow", not to mention the incredible "The Unforgiven"?

Thanks Goran for this korean flicks update. Feels like X's spirits came a cross to my finger. Goran, any plan to continuing X's works on K-Drama Hub, Chungmuro Daily and K-Film Databank ?

whoa! is X no longer a contributor at this site? i must've missed the announcement. say it ain't so...

Is Korea having a lackluster year compared with last year's offerings? I think it's early to make that assessment, as there are still plenty of movies that remain to be seen/released. Personally, I'm looking forward to "Dasepo Naughty Girls," "No Mercy for the Rude," "Time," "Woman on the Beach," "The Fox Family," "I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK" (if it gets released this year), etc. There are also excellent, "Series Dasepo Girls" digital shorts (I will post more about those later), which will hopefully be packaged for the festival play.

At the very least, this is the year that gave us "The Host" - and if that fact alone isn't cause for celebration, I don't know what is! But in the end, it all comes down to personal taste.

As for continuing X's work on K-Drama Hub and Chungmuro Daily, there are two reasons I can't do that: I only know elements of "basic Korean," so I'm not able to translate the daily news items and articles that X used to do, and even if my Korean was good enough, I would simply not have enough time to do it. As many people here have mentioned before, there's no replacing X.

However, I may be able to take care of the K-Film Databank updates, and will let you know once I get started on it.

Thanks.