SCREENING Park Joong-Hoon Retrospective Hosted by Jonathan Demme Wednesday, April 11th - Tuesday, April 17th The Jacob Burns Film Center 364 Manville Road Pleasantville, New York www.burnsfilmcenter.org This April, one of Asia's biggest stars - South Korean movie idol Joong-hoon Park - will be coming to the Jacob Burns Film Center for a unique and unprecedented mini-retrospective of his work. A household name in Asia, Park started out in dramas in the mid-'80s but hit it big in comedy and action films as part of the huge South Korean cultural rebirth that's stretched its influence across the continent. As Variety recently put it: "In terms of pop culture, perhaps no country in the world has ever experienced a greater renaissance than South Korea." "Joong-hoon Park is one of Korea's greatest movie stars and, more importantly, one of the finest and most charming actors working anywhere in cinema today," said legendary filmmaker and JBFC Board Member Jonathan Demme. "I am enormously thrilled and proud to be part of this series and I can't wait to see some of the films I've missed. Once again, the Burns is up front with the hippest movie programming in the country. Radio Star Wednesday, April 11th, 7:00pm Q&A w/Joong-hoon Park, Sung-kee Ahn and Jonathan Demme The Truth About Charlie Thursday, April 12th, 7:15pm Two Guys Saturday, April 14th, 7:45pm Nowhere To Hide Sunday, April 15th, 6:00 Q&A w/Joong-hoon Park, Myung-se Lee and Jonathan Demme My Love, My Bride Monday, April 16th, 7:15pm Rules Of The Game Tuesday, April 17th, 7:15pm

MOVIE RELEASE Voice of a Murderer (Geu nom moksori) (2007) Starts Friday, April 13th The ImaginAsian Theater 239 East 59th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenue New York City www.hisvoice.co.kr Voice of a Murderer (Geu nom moksori) (2007) South Korea, Korean with English subtitles, color, 122 min Directed by Park Jin-pyo Starring Sol Kyung-gu, Kim Nam-ju, Kang Dong-won, Kim Yeong-cheol, and Song Young-chang Korea has been making better versions of Zodiac ever since 2003--Memories of Murder and their latest entry is Voice of a Murderer, a movie about a real-life crime that will hang around in your head for days afterwards like the stench of rotten souls. Based on a real-life kidnapping from the early 90's, and directed by the man who worked on the definitive documentary about that crime, this movie isn't about the voyeuristic riff raff who get off on playing Sherlock Holmes, instead it's about the victim and his family and the emotional punch is like a hammer whacking your brain right on its softest spot. Harrowing, horrifying and truly great this is a movie for real people who can handle real feelings, not folks who need their every emotion validated by a layer critical reviews and auterist chill. It's also Korea's most successful movie of 2007. --Subway Cinema

FILM RETROSPECTIVE Hong Sang-Soo Tribute April 16th, 20th, and 21st BAM Cinematek Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) Peter Jay Sharp Building 30 Lafayette Avenue Brooklyn, New York www.bam.org The Korea Society co-presents a Hong Sang-Soo tribute with BAM Cinematek, featuring the celebrated Korean director's three latest films that have won over critics and audiences alike worldwide - Woman is the Future of Man, Tale of Cinema and Woman on the Beach. "One of the most exciting and authentically individual filmmakers to emerge on the world stage recently.... Wreathed in a profound melancholy, Hong's films lyrically explore the limits of subjectivity, both its pathos and its dangers, often through different viewpoints that don't so much cancel one another out as add another tile to the mosaic of existence." --Manohla Dargis, The New York Times Monday, April 16th, 4:30pm, 6:50pm, 9:15pm Woman is the Future of Man (Yeojaneun Namjaui Miraeda) (2004) South Korea, Korean with English subtitles, color, 88min Starring Yu Ji-Tae, Kim Tae-Woo, Seong Hyeon-A Two male college friends reunite and spontaneously decide to look up a woman with whom they were both separately involved. "The men's self-immolating behavior is what's saddest in the Hong universe, thanks largely to his duplicitous manner with narrative. You can rarely grip the shape of the entire film until past the halfway marker. When you do, the tragedy of soured lives is beyond the point of no return." --The Village Voice Friday, April 20th at 2:00pm, 4:30pm, 6:50pm, 9:15pm Tale of Cinema (Geuk jang jeon) (2005) South Korea, Korean with English subtitles, color, 89min Starring Lee Ki-Woo, Uhm Ji-Won A young man bumps into a female friend; the ensuing evening involves drinking, sex, and a suicide pact. Turns out it's only a film (within a film), but life imitates art, which in turn imitates life... "Tale expands on Hong's preoccupations with a renewed conceptual depth. While it may be a tough film to love, it is also Hong's finest work to date, marking a bold new direction just when Hong is most in need of a fresh start." --Michael Sicinski, Cinema Scope Saturday, April 21st, 3:00pm, 6:00pm, 9:00pm Woman on the Beach (Haebyonui yoin) (2006) South Korea, Korean with English subtitles, color, 128min Starring Go Hyun-Jung, Kim Seung-Woo, Kim Tae-Woo, Song Seon-Mi A filmmaker, writing his latest script at a seaside resort town, becomes involved with two women. As ever, Hong is comically and painfully lucid in outlining the jealousy and self-absorption that fuel his male characters' drunken acting out. In the scene that is at the heart of this film, he does so literally with the help of a diagram-a fitting gesture for a filmmaker so obsessed with the geometry of human relationships.

SCREENING The Grace Lee Project (2005) The Korea Society Tuesday, April 17th 6:00 - 6:30 pm Registration and Reception 6:30 - 8:00 pm Screening and Lecture The Korea Society 950 Third Avenue, 8th Floor, at 57th Street New York City $15 www.gracelee.net The Grace Lee Project (2005) USA, Documentary, 68min Directed by Grace Lee Join the Korea Society for the Korean Diaspora Series with Winnie Tam, Lecturer, Hunter College for a screening and discussion of The Grace Lee Project. When Korean American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. Once she left the Midwest however, everyone she met seemed to know "another Grace Lee." But why did they assume that all Grace Lees were reserved, dutiful, piano-playing overachievers? The filmmaker plunges into a funny, highly unscientific investigation into all those Grace Lees who break the mold -- from a fiery social activist to a rebel who tried to burn down her high school. With wit and charm, The Grace Lee Project puts a hilarious spin on the eternal question, "What's in a name?". Order tickets online beginning December 7th.

DISCUSSION What Time is it: Cultural Production And The L.A. Riots New York University Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program & Institute Wednesday, April 25th, 6:30 - 8:30pm New York University A/P/A Institute And Department Of Social & Cultural Analysis 7th Floor Gallery 41-51 East 11th Street, 7th Floor New York City FREE www.apa.nyu.edu In conjunction with Exquisite Crisis & Encounters Exhibition, join the New York University Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program & Institute for a conversation moderated by curator Yong Soon Min bringing together some of the artists in the exhibition from across the country with cultural critics to examine the various legacies and vestiges of the 1992 LA Riots and its resonances in the different communities and contexts to the present day. The conversation will also center on the rich array of cultural production, including the current Exquisite Crisis exhibition, that have responded to this history. The evening features Min Hyoung Song (author of Strange Future: Pessimism and the LA Riots), members of Detroit based, Other: Arab Artists Collective, and Fred Wilson among other speakers.

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MOVIE PREMIERE West 32nd (2007) Saturday, April 28th, 7:30pm Sunday, April 29th, 10:00pm Tuesday, May 1st, 6:00pm Thursday, May 3rd, 3:30pm Friday, May 4th, 8:30pm Various www.tribecafilmfestival.org | www.w32nd.com | MySpace | Facebook West 32nd (2007) USA, English, Korean with English subtitles, color, 83min Directed by Michael Kang Starring John Cho, Jun Sung Kim, Grace Park, Jane Kim, and Jun Ho Jeoung West 32nd is about an ambitious young lawyer who takes on a pro bono case to exonerate a fourteen-year-old boy from a first-degree murder charge. The case takes him into a world he never knew existed right in the heart of mid-town Manhattan. The film stars John Cho (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle) and Grace Park (Battlestar Galactica) and is the screen debut of Korean actor Jun Kim. West 32nd is the eagerly awaited follow-up to writer/director Michael Kang's much heralded first movie, The Motel. The story was inspired by cowriter's Edmund Lee's experience as a Village Voice reporter researching Korean organized crime in New York during the nineties. You can view the trailer here. Other Korean or Korean American films at the Tribeca Film Festival: A Dirty Carnival (Biyeolhan Geori) (2006) USA, English, Korean with English subtitles, color, 141 mins Directed by Ha Yoo Starring Zo In-sung, Min Namkoong, Lee Bo-young, Chun Ho-jin, Yoon Jae-moon, Gu Jin Low-level gangster Byung-doo takes on a high-risk mission to pay the bills for his widowed mother and siblings. But when he succeeds, he finds himself quickly rising through the ranks of South Korea's organized crime world, paving the way for this exceptional saga of greed, betrayal, violence and tragedy. The literal translation of the Korean title is "mean streets". Screenings: Thursday, May 3rd, 8:30pm; Friday, May 4th, 10:30pm; Saturday, May 5th, 4:00pm; Sunday, May 6th, 6:00pm. Planet B-Boy (2007) USA, In English, Japanese, French, Korean with English subtitles, color, 95 mins Directed by Benson Lee Documentary A powerful documentary about the vibrant global resurgence of break-dancing, Planet B-Boy goes inside the underground hip- hop dance scenes around the world, as the best crews prepare for the "The Battle of the Year" -- an annual "World Cup" of b-boying. Director Lee combines spectacular dance footage with poignant insight explaining why these dancers make tremendous sacrifices for their art. Screenings: Thursday, Apr 26th, 5:00pm; Friday, Apr 27th, 11:30pm; Saturday, Apr 28th, 8:30pm (outdoor), Wednesday, May 2nd, 4:00pm; Saturday, May 5th, 11:30am.

THEATER Ten Second Generation Monday, April 30th, and Tuesday, May 1st, 7:00pm The Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street New York City Free www.2g.org Second Generation is proud to celebrate its tenth anniversary season of bringing Asian American stories to the world's stage with a special In the Works staged reading of ten brand new ten minute plays by Carla Ching, Julia Cho, Andrew Chu, Michael Golamco, David Henry Hwang, Mrinalini Kamath, Chiori Miyagawa Qui Nguyen, A. Rey Pamatmat, and Sung Rno produced and directed by Lloyd Suh. 2g's productions have been performed and hosted by Carnegie Hall, the New York State Theatre at Lincoln Center, the Asia Society, regionally at the Village Theatre in Seattle and San Jose Repertory, and via international tours through Taiwan and Singapore. Via its "In The Works" series, 2g has developed dozens of new plays by early-career and emerging Asian American writers since 1997, as part of its mission to identify, nurture and support the next generation of Asian American dramatic literature.

SPORTS OUTING New York Mets Asian Night Tuesday, May 1st, 7:10pm Shea Stadium 7 Train to Willets Point / Shea Stadium Flushing, Queens www.mets.com Join the New York Mets as they celebrate their annual Asian night as they play the Florida Marlins. Also, don't forget their official Korean Night on Friday, July 13th too.

TELEVISION PREMIERE The Slanted Screen (2006) Sunday, May 13th, 1:00pm Sunday, May 20th, 12:15am Thirteen / WNET New York, Channel 13 www.slantedscreen.com The Slanted Screen (2006) USA, English, color, 60min Directed by Jeff Adachi Documentary From silent film star Sessue Hayakawa to Harold & Kumar Go to Whitecastle, The Slanted Screen explores the portrayals of Asian men in American cinema, chronicling the experiences of actors who have had to struggle against ethnic stereotyping and limiting roles. The film presents a critical examination of Hollywood's image-making machine, through a fascinating parade of 50 film clips spanning a century. The Slanted Screen includes interviews with actors Mako, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, James Shigeta, Dustin Nguyen, Phillip Rhee, Will Yun Lee, Tzi Ma, Jason Scott Lee, comedian Bobby Lee, producer Terence Chang, writer Frank Chin, and directors Gene Cajayon and Eric Byler. "Highest recommendation... The Slanted Screen hits all its marks." --San Francisco Chronicle

GALA 2007 Korea Society Annual Dinner The Korea Society Tuesday, May 15th, 6:30pm The Waldorf-Astoria 301 Park Avenue New York City www.koreasociety.org Join hundreds of friends of The Korea Society including many of the most prominent members of the business and diplomatic establishments for the Korea Society 2007 Annual Dinner. Black tie/traditional attire. Honoring: H. E. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations H. E. Lee Hee-Beom, Chair 50th Anniversary Commemoration Van Fleet Awardees: Houghton and Doreen Freeman, The Freeman Foundation

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Korean Studies Workshop for American Educators Institute of International Education (IIE) Wednesday, April 18th www.iie.org/ksw | ksw@iie.org In 2007, the Korean Studies Workshop will send up to 100 U.S. secondary school social studies teachers and administrators to Korea for a 12-day workshop. Sponsored and funded entirely by the Korea Foundation, the Workshop is designed to enhance mutual understanding between the people of Korea and the United States by inviting certain U.S. educators to visit Korea and then share their experiences with fellow Americans upon their return. The workshop will include lectures, tours to cultural and industrial sites, and meetings with Korean educators and students. The program is open to 6th thru 12th grade social studies teachers, secondary school principals and assistant principals, superintendents and assistant superintendents, and curriculum coordinators and textbook writers with influence over social studies curriculum. IIE administers the Korean Studies Workshop for American Educators on behalf of the Korea Foundation. Founded in 1919, IIE is a private, not-for-profit organization committed to international education and exchange, with over 80 years of experience designing and implementing international programs.