Link: Arts and Crafts Korea

I fell in love with this screen. However, I also just like this site. I’m not sure how I’ve missed it. It’s full of wonderful Korean items and I’m afraid they might get quite a lot of my money.


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Link: Korean Movies

The Los Angeles Times has reported that Korea's burgeoning movie industry is penetrating the international movie market, enjoying a creative surge reminiscent of 1970s Hollywood when the films of Martin Scorsese and Hal Ashby first burst onto the big screen.

How interesting! I like watching foreign films on occasion. Yes, I still consider Korean movies to be foreign films because (quite frankly) I’m not Korean.

The article covered Korean companies' strong representation at Santa Monica's annual American Film Market and the Los Angeles debut of Korea's top-grossing horror flick "The Host" at the AFI Fest in Hollywood on Friday (Nov. 3). Universal Pictures has already bought the remake rights, hoping to replicate Warner Bros.' $100-million success with "The Lake House," another Korean-inspired tale.

I didn’t know that “The Lake House” was Korean expired. That is pretty neat. It’s on my Netflix list, but I suppose I need to move it up now (and it has nothing to do with the fact that Keanu Reeves is in it). I’m sticking to my story.


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Link: Georgia Koreatown

To get to the city of Duluth in northern Georgia, take the I-85 for some 50 minutes from Atlanta Hartsfield International Airport. Prepare for a surprise: the place looks like one of the newer Korean cities, with large-scale supermarkets on expansive plots and signs in Korean everywhere.

Pretty cool. My husband has relatives in Georgia and we’ve talked about taking a trip to the Peach state. I’ve been to Atlanta when I was in college, but I didn’t have a chance to see very much since I was there for a conference.

Atlanta, the home of CNN, Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines, is quickly emerging as a new Korean stronghold in the southern U.S. Following L.A., New York, Miami, and Virginia, Atlanta is becoming home to the next biggest Korean community. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Koreans in Georgia was 30,000 in 2000. Including all the Korean international students, that number is thought to be more like 100,000-150,000 now.