All posts tagged "seoul searching"

  • A scene from "My Love, Don't Cross That River," a Korean documentary film that broke the 3 million audience mark on Dec. 25, 2014. (NEWSis)
    LA Film Fest invites three Korean projects

    By The Korea Times Los Angeles staff Three Korean projects have been invited to the Los Angeles Film Festival, coming next month. Korean American director Benson Lee’s “Seoul Searching” will receive a gala screening. Documentary “My Love,...

    • Posted May 6, 2015
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    ‘Seoul Searching’ gets gala screening at LA film fest

    “Seoul Searching,” a coming-of-age teen comedy set in South Korea and directed by Benson Lee, was picked as a gala screening at this year’s Los Angeles Film Festival. According to festival organizer Film Independent, the movie will...

    • Posted April 15, 2015
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  • Justin Chon, middle, in Benson Lee's "Seoul Searching." (Brewery Hills Entertainment)
    ‘Seoul Searching’ with Justin Chon

    By Tae Hong If there’s one thing Justin Chon loves, it’s movies. For a second-generation Korean American kid growing up in a predominantly white Orange County neighborhood, movies — movies about cartoon rabbits, about Spanish treasure maps,...

    • Posted February 13, 2015
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  • Filmmaker Benson Lee stands on the set of "Seoul Searching," at a nightclub in Dongdaemun, eastern Seoul in August 2014. (Korea Times photos by Shim Hyun-chul)
    Q&A with ‘Seoul Searching’ director Benson Lee

    “Seoul Searching” recently premiered at Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 23 By Kim Young-jin Growing up outside of Philadelphia in the 1980s, filmmaker Benson Lee felt removed from the people around him, as if he were “living...

    • Posted January 26, 2015
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    Park Chan-ho to make acting debut

    In Benson Lee’s “Seoul Searching” The next place audiences will see Korean baseball legend Park Chan-ho is not on the ball field but on the silver screen. Park will have a small appearance in Director Benson Lee’s...

    • Posted June 13, 2014
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