Netflix’s new K-drama, Like Flowers in Sand, is a series without waste — a deliberate, consoling dive into ssireum, a traditional form of South Korean wrestling, set in an unassuming Geosan town reflected perfectly in Jang Dong-yoon’s earnest and unrefined Kim Baek-doo. The series begins as Baek-doo’s ssireum career ostensibly ends. A former childhood prodigy, the 33-year-old has failed to win a senior championship. As a scion of a family of winners, in a town defined by ssireum, no one can explain his failure. After getting blackout drunk,...
- 1/7/2024
- by Geoffrey Bunting
- Rollingstone.com
Back in 2019, Mari Asato's “Under Your Bed” made a splash in the festival circuit, with its extreme approach on the erotic thriller. Now, another adaptation of Kei Ohishi's homonymous novel comes to the fore, this time from Korea, although the director is a familiar Japanese, Sabu, in his first outing in the particular country.
*The review was based on a version of the film before post-production.
Ji-hoon is a young man who has been ignored by everyone since his schooldays, to the point that he decided to stay in the background, roaming his own world with a camera shooting from “behind the lines”. The only person who actually interacted with him, even calling him by his name, was the girl he was in love with in college, Ye-eun, although their one date ended up being completely unremarkable. For her at least, since Ji-hoon never actually forgot about her,...
*The review was based on a version of the film before post-production.
Ji-hoon is a young man who has been ignored by everyone since his schooldays, to the point that he decided to stay in the background, roaming his own world with a camera shooting from “behind the lines”. The only person who actually interacted with him, even calling him by his name, was the girl he was in love with in college, Ye-eun, although their one date ended up being completely unremarkable. For her at least, since Ji-hoon never actually forgot about her,...
- 12/15/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Seoul, April 25 (Ians) South Korea’s Hyundai Motor said on Tuesday its first-quarter net profit jumped 92 per cent from a year earlier on increased production and an improved product mix.
Net profit for the three months ended in March rose to 3.42 trillion won ($2.56 billion) from 1.78 trillion won during the same period of last year, the company said in a statement.
The net result was buoyed by increased vehicle production amid improving chip supplies, robust sales of high-margin SUVs, and the won’s weakness against the US dollar, reports Yonhap news agency.
The dollar rose to an average of 1,275.58 won in the first quarter from 1,204.95 won a year earlier, according to data from the Bank of Korea.
“Increasing vehicle production as a global chip shortage eases and low inventories in major markets are expected to prop up the bottom line in the second quarter,” Seo Gang-hyun, executive vice president in charge...
Net profit for the three months ended in March rose to 3.42 trillion won ($2.56 billion) from 1.78 trillion won during the same period of last year, the company said in a statement.
The net result was buoyed by increased vehicle production amid improving chip supplies, robust sales of high-margin SUVs, and the won’s weakness against the US dollar, reports Yonhap news agency.
The dollar rose to an average of 1,275.58 won in the first quarter from 1,204.95 won a year earlier, according to data from the Bank of Korea.
“Increasing vehicle production as a global chip shortage eases and low inventories in major markets are expected to prop up the bottom line in the second quarter,” Seo Gang-hyun, executive vice president in charge...
- 4/25/2023
- by Agency News Desk
- GlamSham
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