I don’t suppose your video rentals have much selecion of Korean films — we have 800,000 Korean and Korean-Americans in Los Angeles. A new one I saw on DVD is Sil-mi-do — which is the name of one of their coastal islands given to Army training. It tells a true story of 4 sergeants and 31 condemned prisoners in 1971 who trained for a suicide mission to assassinate Kim Il-Sung. It is very similar to The Dirty Dozen. Several recent films deal with the North/South divide. Tae-Guk (Brotherhood) is also a fantastic war film, and The Monster – is a sci-fi about rhino sized fish/lizard in the Han River caused by a U.S. Army dumping of formaldehyde in a base closing move.
Wednesday 16th May 2007
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Gary Skentelbery
Experienced journalist for more than 40 years. Managing Director of magazine publishing group with three in-house titles and on-line daily newspaper for Warrington. Experienced writer, photographer, PR consultant and media expert having written for local, regional and national newspapers. Specialties: PR, media, social networking, photographer, networking, advertising, sales, media crisis management. Chair of Warrington Healthwatch Director Warrington Chamber of Commerce Patron Tim Parry Johnathan Ball Foundation for Peace. Trustee Warrington Disability Partnership. Former Chairman of Warrington Town FC.
