● Written by Lee Ki-Joo● Genre:Self-development book● Published in August 2016● 308 pagesWhen I saw the book title ‘The temperature of a language’, I wondered how could this could be possible, so obviously, this title attracted my attention. This book is divided into three chapters, and it is in essay form based on what the writer saw in his daily life. Therefore, you can read the book quickly without difficulty because you can easily relate with contents as they are things which you have also experienced. Although every sentence in this book made me feel warm, I have a phrase which I found mo
● Director: Bong Joon-ho● Genre: Action & Adventure, Drama● Starring: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Seo-hyeon Ahn etc.● Running Time: 118 minutesHave you ever thought of being on a vegetarian diet or considered the livestock industry these days? If you watch Okja once, you would think of these topics. This movie received o lot of media attention before it was released. It was the new work of director, Bong Joon-ho and it was also invited as an official selection to Cannes in 2017. But the biggest reason that Okja was loved by many people is that it offers much food for thought.This movie is about
● Written by N.H. Klein Baum● Genre:educational novel ● Published in March 2004● 343 pages‘Dead Poets Society’ is a touching work about a language teacher, Mr. Kiting, and his students. It is an educational novel written by N.H. Klein Baum and was published as the second version of the movie that had received a good grade. It shows a purity, enthusiasm, and romance of students and there are many impressive messages spoken by the teacher, John Kiting.The most important content of this book is the very title: ‘Dead Poets Society’. What do you think when you see the word ‘Dead Poets Society’? I h
● Director: John Carney● Genre: Drama & Romance● Starring: Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova etc.● Running Time: 86 minutes These days, interest in music movies continues to rise continuously. Among them, I would like to introduce one of the most famous musical films, Once. It is a movie that depicts the process of a male and a female meeting each other by chance and making music together. There are only two practical characters in the film. The man who sings day and night on the streets and the woman who sells flowers. What's interesting is that the names of two main characters in the film are un
●Director: Yoon Ho-jin●Genre: Korean creative musical●Starring: Jung Sung-hwa, Lee Ji-hoon, Ahn Jae-yook●Running time: 160 minutes with one 20minutes intermissionAt this point of the time, when history is once again in the spotlight, ‘Hero’ is being produced. It is about ‘Ahn Jung-geun’ who is one of fighters for independence during Japanese occupation. This musical was premiered in 2009 commemorating the 100th patriotic deed of Patriot Ahn Jung-geun. It opened at New York’s Broadway theaters in 2011 and was very well-received by audiences in Harbin, China where Patriot Ahn had once done a hol
●Written by Ichiro Kishmi,Fumitake Koga●Genre:Self-development book●Published in November 2014●336 pages“The Courage to Be Disliked” is a famous book that occupied best seller for a very long time. The book ‘The courage to Be Disliked’ was written by Japanese philosopher Ichiro Kishmi, and writer Fumitake Koga. The story involves a boy who is curious about a philosopher who insists the world is very simple and that all people can be happy right now. So, the boy finds the philosopher and the story begins with the boy’s question. This book is a conversational book that is based on Alfred Adler’s
Written by Shinkai makotoGenre : RomancePublished in January 2017296pagesDid you watch a movie called ‘Your Name’? The Japanese animation movie, ‘Your Name’ released in the early of this year and was a big hit. The original novel of the animation film ‘Your Name’ was personally written by a master of Japanese animation director, Shinkai Makoto. Director Makoto novelized his work with a delicate touch. At first, he didn't think that he was going to write a novel, but for complementary roles with animation, he finished writing three months before the movie was completed. Unlike the movie focused
●Director: Andrew Lloyd Webber●Genre: Musical●Starring: James Barbour, Ali Ewoldt, Kyle Barisich●Running time: 150 minutes with one 15minutes intermission.The musical the Phantom of the Opera is based on the French detective novel writer Gaston Leroux’s novel The Phantom of the Opera. The musical was written by British composer Andrew L. Webber. It was first performed in 1986, in the London Majestic Theatre and translated in to more than15 languages, and performed in over 145 cities in 27 countries. This musical broke the musical Cats’s record, with more than 7486 performances, and became the