The Korea Herald

Report: Suicides in movies tripled

Aug 10, 2011

PHILADELPHIA (AP) ― A movie analysis shows depictions of explicit and graphic suicides tripled from 1950 to 2006. An analysis by Pennsylvania’s Annenberg Public Policy Center of 855 top box office f...
Students explore Korea through lenses

Aug 8, 2011

For the past six years, Korean and American university students have gathered at Ewha Womens University to participate in the Harvard Summer School in Seoul program. This summer, the program offered...
Alleged sex film of young Monroe gets no buyers

Aug 8, 2011

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ― There were no buyers Sunday at the auction of a 1940s stag film that an events promoter claims shows a young Marilyn Monroe having sex before she became a movie star. ...
Blind (Korea), Opening Aug. 11

Aug 5, 2011

Blind (Korea) Opening Aug. 11 Thriller. Directed by Ahn Sang-hoon. A female university student goes missing one day and later is discovered as a victim of a hit-and-run. Assuming the kidnapper and ...
Arrow, the Ultimate Weapon (Korea), Opening Aug. 11

Aug 5, 2011

Arrow, the Ultimate Weapon (Korea) Opening Aug. 11 Action. Directed by Kim Han-min. When the second Manchu invasion of Korea occurs in 1636, a young man named Na-mi (Park Hae-il) loses her sister ...
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (U.S.), Opening Aug. 17

Aug 5, 2011

Rise of the Planet of the Apes (U.S.) Opening Aug. 17 Action. Directed by Rupert Wyatt. Will Rodman (James Franco), a San Francisco-based scientist whose father (John Lithgow) suffers from Alzheim...
Larry Crowne (U.S.), Opening Aug. 18

Aug 5, 2011

Larry Crowne (U.S.) Opening Aug. 18 Romance. Directed by Tom Hanks. Larry (Tom Hanks), a mid-aged man who just got fired from his work for lacking a college education, decides to attend a local com...
Hong Gil-dong 2084 (Korea), Opening Aug. 18

Aug 5, 2011

Hong Gil-dong 2084 (Korea) Opening Aug. 18 Animation. Directed by Lee Jeong-in. In 2084, a young man named Hong Gil-dong lives with a little boy named Cheol alone near a city named Yuldo. Gil-dong ...
Bruce Lee items to be sold at Hong Kong auction

Aug 1, 2011

HONG KONG (AFP) -- Thirteen items belonging to the late kung fu legend Bruce Lee, including a 1966 letter he wrote and a fur-lined coat will go under the hammer in a Hong Kong auction next week, a re...
Incubus turns less experimental

Jul 29, 2011

Incubus “If Not Now, When?” Sony Music American rock band Incubus is back with its seventh studio album “If Not Now, When?” five years after the release of “Light Grenades.” Formed in 1991 by voca...
Maestro Chung’s DG albums released

Jul 29, 2011

Chung Myung-whun “Myung-Whun Chung DG Recordings 1991-2010” Universal Music Universal Music has released a collection of recordings by conductor Chung Myung-whun, recorded under the label of Deuts...
Smallwood returns with 12th album

Jul 29, 2011

Richard Smallwood “Promises” Verity Records The death of Richard Smallwood’s mother in 2005 left him so distraught that the Stellar- and Dove Award-winning artist lost the inspiration to write a s...
Box office

Jul 29, 2011

Arrow, the Ultimate Weapon (Korea) Opening Aug. 11 Action. Directed by Kim Han-min. When the second Manchu invasion of Korea occurs in 1636, a young man named Na-mi (Park Hae-il) loses her sister J...
Genre shootout: Western has a dust-up with aliens

Jul 29, 2011

Western has a dust-up with aliens You see the strangest things in the desert. Last year, for instance, if you followed a ridgeline here you would have discovered a massive alien spaceship and, nearb...
University of Texas center acquires Nicholas Ray archives

Jul 28, 2011

The Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archives of Nicholas Ray, the director of such classic film noirs as 1950’s “In a Lonely Place” and 1952’s “On Dangerous ...