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Koreanfilm.org - Movie reviews, news, actor info and more from Korea

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This project began as a hobby. After having lived in Korea for a year or so, I started working a few hours a week at the Korean Motion Picture Promotion Corporation (since renamed KOFIC -- the Korean Film Council), doing language editing. I had been interested in Korean film before, but working at the KMPPC gave me more access to information about Korean cinema, and I began to get a feel for the overall shape of the industry. Nonetheless, when I searched the web for more information in English about Korean film, there was practically nothing there. Not being someone to let ignorance or a lack of qualifications stand in my way, I decided one night to make a website myself. I never suspected it would grow so big.

Some background information about me: I'm from the U.S. originally (a small town in western Massachusetts), and I came to Korea straight out of graduate school in August 1997. While a student, I studied Russian language at Carleton College (Minnesota) and then at Indiana University. I was planning to get a Ph.D. in Russian Literature -- drama and translation interested me in particular -- but eventually I changed my mind and switched into a masters program in Applied Linguistics, so that I could live abroad and teach English. My stay in Korea was planned as a one or two year stop on the way to Eastern Europe, but it has since evolved into something more permanent... About six months after coming to Korea I met my wife Hyeon-sook. We dated for about three years before getting married on January 14, 2001. Hyeon-sook has been a great help to me in many ways, both with film-related work and with life in general. She currently operates an online DVD shop at YeonDVD.com.

I first became interested in Korean film, and the culture in general, through some close Korean friends I met in graduate school. It was they who convinced me to come to Korea instead of Japan, and I was lucky enough to get a job teaching English language at the alma mater of some old friends (Korea University). I taught there for four years in total, before taking a job as Korea correspondent for Screen International, a British film trade magazine.