I watched the Korean movie Our School E.T. the other day. I bought it because Park Bo-young (from Scandal Makers) is in it.

The movie is about a gym teacher who goes the extra mile to take care of students who are having troubles. E.T. in the title first stands for his unorthodox/alien ways to handle things, but then it stands for English teacher once he is faced with the “choice” of being fired or start teaching English.

The story has a nice message and there are a few good moments - I got a little Great Teacher Onitsuka vibe once in a while - but the delivery of said story is not very good I’m afraid.

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I’ve written snippets about the Korean movie Scandal Makers before. Now I want to show you a clip where Park Bo-young, who plays Jae-in/Jeong-nam in the movie, sings* the song 아마도 그건 (amado geugeon). I really like this song.

Scandal Makers clip

9MB 1:38 H.264/AVC 480×272 PSP Ready

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When this song came on the first time I wached the movie, I had to rush over to my CD shelf to pull out Park Hye-kyeong’s album When a Woman is in Love, because I recognized the song and knew I had it on CD. I didn’t know the title, but I could hear Hye-kyeong’s voice when I thought about the song.

I think the original artist for this song is Choi Yong-joon (최용준) (that’s what they say in the movie). According to the tag in the mp3 from the soundtrack it’s composed by 박병규.

*I think it’s actually sung by someone called Hong Min-jung (홍민정) here. She’s the one who sings on the soundtrack and the vocals sound just the same as in the movie.

Here’s the song from the soundtrack:

• Hong Min-jung - Amado geugeon 5MB MP3

A couple of days ago I popped the Korean movie Romantic Island into my DVD player. I bought it during the summer, but I hadn’t gotten around to watching it until now.

Romantic Island is about a group of people that independent of one another decide to escape from their troubles at home and go on a trip. They all end up in the Philippines and the island of Boracay.

One of the main characters is Soo-jin (played by the gorgeous Lee Soo-kyung, 이수경), who is fed up with an unappreciative boss, brother and parents and takes out all her savings and leaves Korea unsure if she’ll ever return. Despite this, she’s very cheerful (and ultra cute). You could watch the movie just for her. She’s the girl on the left in the cover image.

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I just got back from the cinema after watching New Moon. It’s received pretty poor ratings, but I think it was great.

It was me and about 300 girls in the theatre. When Edward first came on screen half the audience went “*squeal*” . It was fun to watch it at the cinema since everyone there was very into it so you could hear people reacting to the different scenes.

I went on my own, because I thought I’d enjoy the movie more that way. I knew some of my friends wouldn’t like it, so I thought I’d save myself some trouble and do something that was just for me.

PS. I’ll post music video clips again tomorrow.

I’ve been meaning to write a post about the movie Scandal Makers, but I never get around to it, so I think I’ll just post bits and pieces of what I had planned to stuff in that post instead. I’ll just say that I like the movie a lot (which you probably figured if you’ve read my poster posts).

Park Bo-young (박보영) plays the female lead role in Scandal Makers (과속 스캔들/Speed Scandal). She’s also in The ESP Couple and Our School E.T. (both of which I haven’t watched yet).

Here are some pictures of Bo-young:

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I wrote earlier about how I went about choosing what to hang on my living room wall. This is how it looks now:

Actually, I took this photo last week. I wanted to take a daylight photo, but we don’t get much daylight this time of year, and it’s only getting darker, so this’ll have to do

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Fucking Åmål (English title: Show me love) is a Swedish movie that came out in 1998. I watched it in the cinema when it first came out and I remember really liking it. I had been planning to re-watch it some day, and yesterday was that “some day”.

Last week this movie was mentioned in a Swedish newspaper where they were listing “100 emotions”. I got the urge to watch it again after 11 years and ordered the DVD.

Fucking Åmål is about two girls, Agnes and Elin (played by Rebecka Liljeberg and Alexandra Dahlström), who live in a small town in Sweden. Elin is pretty popular and Agnes doesn’t have any friends. And the thing is that Agnes is in love with Elin. That’s the main story, but the movie also depicts (teenage) life in a Swedish small town. […] there’s more! »

The walls of my “new” apartment (I moved in nearly eight months ago) have been empty because I haven’t been able to decide what to put up on them (except for the SNSD poster I have in my bedroom ).

I wanted to find some nice artwork or framed photos that would give me positive associations as well as look a bit more “grown up” than the J-Pop posters I had in my old apartment.

I was thinking about how I wanted something that represents me and what I like. Besides Asian pop music I also enjoy […] there’s more! »

In October Jeon Ji-hyeon’s first English language movie Blood the Last Vampire will be released on DVD and Blu-ray.

I was hoping that it would be shown in cinemas here, but it never came, so I ended up downloading a Korean TV-rip (in July). Having watched it, I kind of understand why it wasn’t shown in many cinemas.

I totally bought the stylized action scenes and could accept a certain amount of B-movieness. Unfortunately the script left quite a bit to be desired and had a fair amount of plot holes. Although I tried to keep my expectations down I was disappointed by this movie.

However, Ji-hyeon looks awesome as Saya. Super cool. I might give Blood the Last Vampire another chance. Perhaps I’ll like it more the second time around.

Today (well, technically yesterday) I received two sets of Asian movies that I had ordered. One was the Blu-ray version of the Korean movie Welcome to Dongmakgol.

It was listed as Blu-ray region A and B at YesAsia, but the case only said “region A”, so I got a bit worried and popped it into my PS3 (region B) just to check if it would play, which it did (phew). I was planning on taking a nap before my late Brazilian Jiu-jitsu class, but I couldn’t stop watching the movie once I had started it.

Welcome to Dongmakgol takes place during the Korean war. The story is about two South Korean soldiers, three North Korean soldiers and an American pilot who end up in a strange village in the mountains called Dongmakgol, where the inhabitants don’t even know that a war is raging outside. […] there’s more! »