Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005)

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (Chinjeolhan geumjassi; literally translated, Kind-Hearted Ms. Geum-Ja) is a 2005 South Korean film by director Park Chan-wook, and is the third installment in The Vengeance Trilogy, following Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) and Oldboy (2003).

The film debuted on July 29, 2005 in South Korea, and competed for the Golden Lion at the 62nd Venice International Film Festival in September 2005. While it failed to win in competition, it did walk away with Cinema of The Future, the Young Lion Award and the Best Innovated Film Award in the non-competition section. The film had its U.S. premiere on September 30 at the New York Film Festival. It began its limited release in North American theatres on May 5, 2006.

In the UK and North America, the film has been screened under the title Lady Vengeance. 

One Fine Spring Day (2001)

Love Hurts. This simple statement expresses everything there is to know about Jin-ho Hur’s One Fine Spring Day, a movie that is about the awkwardness of attraction and the pain of a burning passion suddenly doused. It is about love found, love enthralled, and finally love lost.

Sang-woo lives with his father, his stepmother, and grandmother in the South Korean countryside. They’re out in the country, although you wouldn’t know it by Sang-woo’s many electronics, including a cellphone and his job as a sound engineer dubbing voices for TV shows. Sang-woo and his family is caring for his elderly grandmother, who is suffering from the loss of her husband.

Last Present (2001)

Last Present (aka Last Gift, Korean title: 선물) is a Korean feature film released by Fun & Happiness Films in 2001. Directed by Oh Gi-hwan, it tells the tale of Yong-ki (Lee Jung Jae), a struggling comedian who continues to see parallels between his disintegrating relationship with his wife, Jung-yun (Lee Young Ae), and the characters he's playing on the stage. 

Plot
Last Present traces the romance, marriage and estrangement of a down-and-out comedian, Yong-ki (Lee Jung Jae) and his long-suffering wife, Jung-yun (Lee Young Ae). Both of them defied his parents to get married but it seems his parents fears that things will never work out are coming true.

Joint Security Area (2000)

Joint Security Area (2000) is a South Korean film directed by Park Chan-wook. Its plot revolves around efforts to unravel the truth behind an illegal shooting at the politically and militarily sensitive North-South Korean border. 

Plot
The film begins when two North Korean soldiers are killed in the DMZ at a North Korean border house. Alarms sound on both sides, and North and South Korean soldiers are quickly deployed at the scene, resulting in an exchange of gunfire. Sgt. Lee Soo-hyeok (Lee Byung-Hun) despite an injured leg runs from the North Korean side and attempts to reach the South Korean side. He is shortly rescued while the gunfire continues.

First Kiss (1998)

First Kiss (1998)

키스할까요

Starring: Choi Ji-Woo, Ahn Jae-Wook, Lee Kyung-Young

Director: Kim Tae-Gyun

Genre: Romance, Drama

Production: Taewon Entertainment

Distribution: Taewon Entertainment

Language: Korean

Song Yeon-Hwa, a reporter of a weekly entertainment magazine, is 27 years old. Though she is almost kissed by her boy friend several times, she has refused without particular reasons. Then she lost her boy friend. Now knowing her shilly-shally is the reason of her lost love, Song Yeon-Hwa loses daily rhythm all in a furry.

One day Han Kyeong-Hyeon, who seems to be a playboy, came to work with her as a photographer. Seating next seat Kyeong-Hyeon nags her chattering all kinds of things and wedging in every occasion.

Inch'Allah (1997)

Inshallah (1997)
인샬라

Starring: Choi Min-Su, Lee Young-Ae
Director: Lee Min-Yong
Genre: Drama
Production: J Com
Distribution: CJ Entertainment
Language: Korean

Hyang, a student abroad in the States, remained in Algeria which doesn't have diplomatic relationship with Korea because she is falsely charged for smuggling when she was travelling the Sahara. When she called upon the police, Hyang meets an oriental man who she encountered in the hotel by chance.

Autobiography “A Most Special Love” English Translation

In 2001, Lee Young-Ae published her autobiography “A Most Special Love” 《最特別的愛》 and donated all the income from the sale of the book to charity. A Hong Kong fan, Alice, translated some of content from a Chinese book. I only corrected the obvious spelling and grammatical errors in order to keep the originality of the translation.
P.18-20 Beginning OKSU CHILDHOOD I grew up in the district of Oksu; however Oksu is now covering by modern apartment buildings and high-rise buildings as the result of city development. I can only reminisce my childhood district by the underground railway and bus stations' name, it looks very different. The scene belonged to my childhood was gone. This feeling is like the feeling between people and their home town, Oksu is the home of my feeling. * Oksu is a district name of Seoul, on the north shore of Han River. My apartment was located on the slope, behind it, there were little mountains and trees, these places provided me a natural playground. After school, we rushed home to dump our schoolbags then ran to gather over there. We played with insects after climbing on the trees. There was a big project for us; we were looking for the unknown caves. Oh! We were excited by these unknown and mystic caves. My brother told me there were caves on the mountain. I answered,"Cave?" My brother said, "Yup, a cave." I was wondering what the cave is like. My best childhood buddy told me,” Yes, just like the stomach of a whale, a humid and dark place. Pinocchio was fallen into whale's stomach, it's like a cave." It sounded mystic yet amazing for me. End up, we could find the cave but it's not dark and mystic. My buddies were so happy but I was very disappointed, it's far from my imagination. In my reminiscence, a group of kids in the same neighborhood discovered and played until evening, this simple pleasure is very treasurable.