She isn't such a famous star in korea
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hydesakura — 20 years ago(June 08, 2005 11:07 PM)
I too am Korean (but speak English quite fluently cuz I lived in England when i was young), and I don't agree with the above Koreans.
Shiri was THE movie at the time it first came out, it was a huge hit in Korea.
I guess the people here who doesn't remember her is either young(after all, Shiri did come out nearly 6 years ago), or not that into movies.
I just felt bad about this ignorant messege thread title "She isn't such a famous star in korea" and even more bad about the fact that it is an actual Korean (who uses broken English)who tempted to write this.
She starred in a few dramas too (not that memorable i'm afraid), but I think she was more into movies (I liked her in Milae). -
bloodsoup — 20 years ago(June 11, 2005 05:18 AM)
I agree with hydesakura totally. I was in Korea when Swiri was released. Not only was it a huge hit, it's impact on the Korean film industry and it's subsequent development was huge. It's the first 'blockbuster' movie in Korea which lead the way for movies like JSA and Taegugki (Whether or not the blockbuster phenomenon is a good thing in Korea is another discussion though with plenty of pros and cons).
It could definitly be an age thing, younger kids in middle or highschool may not remember her role in Swiri. But anyone who was older and was around for the buzz that Swiri generated will remember heresp. because she played a great role, and pulled it off. Without her, there is no movie.
There have also been some interviews with her on TV, as she is one of the first (THE first?) regional cross-over actresses to have had success in both Korea and Hollywood. She's getting acknowledged for her role on 'Lost' here. More importantly than being 'famous'which she isI think she is well respected in Korea.
I don't mind anyone who posts in broken English, though. Diversity is always a good thing. -
hydesakura — 20 years ago(June 14, 2005 08:22 AM)
thanks for the message.
I just wanted to point out that i wasn't trying to mock about broken english. it was the person who tempted to bring down yunjin kim in such a unfashionably undecent way in broken englishwas the thing that got to me.
I'm sorry if I offended anyone about my 'broken english' comment. -
narugirl — 20 years ago(September 08, 2005 03:19 PM)
Ok, just because Shiri was so huge (and I watched it too.. yes. Though I didn't realize it was her for awhile (I thought I saw her from somehwere)) doesn't mean the actress is that popular. I don't really know if lots of people would remember her, but I don't think so Like you said, people might know about the movie Titanic, but not necessarily Kate Winslet (or the fact she was in that movie, rather)
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Dexo-Fan — 16 years ago(March 30, 2010 02:49 AM)
I mind. It doesn't annoy me or upset me or make me point out how diversity is always a good thing. I just mind.
Diversity is always a good thing. Really? Well, in that case we would have to at some point make our planet no longer exist, because if it kept on existing, we wouldn't experience a diversity in our planet's existence created by ourselves (of course this would have to happen before the sun takes care of that problem). And seeing as I don't know what it would be like to kill someone, I would have to kill that someone before he dies, because if not I would never get the chance and hence no diversity would be present there either.
Obviously this is in the extremes, but I count a statement like 'diversity is always a good thing' as just that since only in eternity there would be a slight chance that all universal criteria be met, and with a statement that takes all ways ('always' or 'all times' or 'at any criteria') into account, eternity would have to be present, because of the unlimited amount of universal criteria. Only infinite is greater than or equal to infinite. And, of course, there's the subjective/objective matter. Person A would define object 1 as good, and person B would define it as bad, which means your statement, if processed by any of this world and/or/xor dimension, where perception ultimatively means not all criteria can me met (which is the same as not all ways ('> always a good thing')), would not fit all criteria. These lines prove why diversity is not always a good thing. It does not prove that diversity is sometimes a good thing, never a good thing, never a bad thing, or always a bad thing. What it proves is:
Diversity is not (statement)
Where the statement-variable contains the expression 'always a good thing'.
I haven't been sleeping for quite some time, but as you can see my brain is still working hard, and after my nap my IQ should be restored to it's usual place: less than infinite (which is pretty good considering that infinite minus 1 still is infinite But wouldn't my IQ have to be even less? Only that would result in an infinite loop, perhaps even a recursive function. A constant literal numerical value would have to be given in order to avoid this loop of eternity.
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DaliParton — 17 years ago(July 02, 2008 11:12 PM)
"Diversity is always a good thing."
Yeah, right. Good job mouthing the lines they fed to you at public indoctrination school.
Yean, right. Good job mouthing the lines they fed to you at KKK indoctrination school.
You can take your monoculture loving butt and move to France. -
I_Love_Books — 17 years ago(December 22, 2008 04:42 AM)
Most older people know who she is actually. She was more of a movie star than an actress for dramas. Drama actresses tend to be more well-known, ironically. She was the main female character in Shiri/Swiri, which is (or was) one of the top five box-office hits in Korea back in the early 90s(?).
She was huge.
The weird thing is, LOST is hugely popular and highly acclaimed here. But not in Korea. My cousins in Korea told me that LOST isn't7ec watched that much.