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Chan-Wook Park is one of the most popular filmmakers in his South Korea. Actually I heard about him before coming here. His big succcesses are well know in Italy, too.  Ok, of course, who usually watches Carlo Vanzina’s movies does not know Chan-Wook Park .

The most famous movies are those included in the so-called Vengeance Trilogy (even if It was not originally intended to be a trilogy):

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) Original trailer (korean)

Oldboy (2003) Original trailer (korean)

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) Original trailer (korean)

Subjects are sometimes brutal but the the style and the feeling and music is wonderful. Wathcing them is a must before coming to South Korea. My favourite one is Old Boy.

 LINKS:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Chan-wook

I have not seen such a sudden and big snow in Italy for long time even if my hometown is located in the northern part. It seems I had to come here in Mokpo in order to see a good white blanket.

Mokpo has more or less the same latitude as Palermo in Sicily Italy, but the weather conditions ar very different in winter time.

Compare for instance the weather report today (December, 7th 2008)

Palermo

Mokpo

The snow covered Mokpo for about two days: December 5th and 6th.

Some pictures taken from Shangria Beach Hotel: