Be On Our March Cover!

Author: Kai Ma
Posted: February 4th, 2010
Filed Under: BLOG

This is your chance to be on the cover of KoreAm!

KoreAm is looking for Korean Americans based in Los Angeles to be on our March cover. No modeling experience necessary. If interested, please contact the photo editor, Eric Sueyoshi, at eric4sueyoshi@gmail.com. Shoots will take place in Gardena, Calif. on Feb. 7th, 11th, and 16th. We are looking for KAs of both genders and all ages (we are especially in need of kids, people 40+ and mixed-raced Koreans). Please contact us, or spread the word!

March Cover Story: Say I Do to ‘Wedding Palace’

A Family Affair Wedding Palace is a romantic comedy about a quirky Korean American family that will be hitting theaters nationwide later this year. KoreAm spoke with writer/director Christine Yoo and leading man Brian Tee for a behind-the-scenes look at how the movie— filmed with two separate crews in the U.S. and Korea—got made, how Yoo wouldn’t take “no” for an answer and how a community said “yes” to a dream. by Oliver Saria They say to make it in Hollywood, it takes moxie, grit and a bit of good luck. You might want to add a PowerPoint presentation to the list. “I had a PowerPoint presentation, and I literally walked in off the street and would talk to anybody that would talk to me,” Christine Yoo, director of the romantic comedy Wedding Palace, tells me as we sit in a coffee shop in Los Angeles’ Koreatown, where much of the film was shot. “If I wanted to shoot here in this location. I would just come in, I would introduce myself, and I would ask who do I need to talk to.” Her ambitious indie film certainly needed all the production help it could muster. With a sizable cast, a flashback sequence set during the Joseon Dynasty, and the film touted as the first U.S.– Korea independent co-production, Yoo had no choice but to go big. Wedding Palace tells the tale of Korean American Jason Kim (played by Brian Tee of The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift) doomed by an ancient family curse to die if he does not wed by his fast-approaching 30th birthday. Left at the altar by his fiancée (played by Joy Osmanski), Jason must contend with a family frantically scrambling to find him a new wife, and thus save his life. But Jason chooses to tempt fate by holding out for true love, which he finds during a business trip to Korea, embarking on a long-distance, online relationship with the enchanting Na Young Song (played by Korean starlet, Kang Hye-Jung, the ingénue in the critically acclaimed classic, Oldboy, in her first English-speaking role). But when the family finally meets Na Young, some aren’t convinced she’s the right one to break the curse. …

Behind the Scenes: March ’11 Cover

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