Article: South Korean pop icon Rain to star in Hollywood action movie

Article: South Korean pop icon Rain to star in Hollywood ...
AP Worldstream;  February 14, 2008 ;     473 words ...South Korean pop star and actor Rain has been cast ... contract to star in Ninja Assassin, an action movie to be directed by James McTeigue, said ... Rain played a leading role in the 2006 South Korean film I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK ...

Article: Korean pop icon Rain to star in action movie
Charleston Daily Mail;  February 14, 2008 ;     349 words ...SEOUL, South Korea - South Korean pop star and actor Rain has been ... star in "Ninja Assassin," an action movie to be directed by James McTeigue ... played a leading role in the 2006 South Korean film "I'm a Cyborg, But That ...

Article: VIOLENT `NOWHERE TO HIDE' WOULD BE BEST KEPT HIDDEN.(What's ...
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA);  January 26, 2001 ;     523 words ... ... of telling stories." He might have been specifically referring to "Nowhere to Hide," the latest flashy South Korean action movie by cult-favorite director-writer Lee Myung-Se ("Bitter & Sweet"), in which every scene seems ...

Article: Queen of the screen; Profile: QUEEN LATIFAH
The Sunday Herald;  June 22, 2003 ;     690 words ... ... Barbershop 2 - the sequel to last year's Ice Cube vehicle - and the lead role in No Blood No Tears, a remake of a South Korean action movie. It was Spike Lee who gave Latifah her first screen role, in 1991's cross-race relationship drama Jungle ...

Article: South Korean reaffirms plan to send troops to Iraq ...
AP Worldstream;  June 22, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... troops to Iraq despite the killing of a South Korean hostage whose captors had demanded that ... Seoul halt its dispatch plan. "The South Korean government reconfirms that there is ... Bong-kil, the main spokesman of the South Korean Foreign Ministry. He spoke after a ...

Article: North and South Korean vessels exchange gunfire; ...
International Herald Tribune;  November 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Herald Tribune 11-11-2009 North and South Korean vessels exchange gunfire; Korean ships ... boat engulfed in flames, according to South Korean officials, was the first border fighting ... between the two countries. North and South Korean naval vessels exchanged gunfire in disputed ...

Article: VOA NEWS: SOUTH KOREAN POP CULTURE REACHES INTO ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... By Jason Strother The popularity of South Korean movies and dramas has spread throughout ... us to a North Korean refugee who says South Korean dramas inspired her to flee to the South ... There, for the first time, she watched South Korean television. Byun could not believe ...