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"Hello My Love" is a Korean movie on a love triagle between a woman and two men. But this time, a men is loved by a woman and another man. Ho-jung(Jo-an) is waiting for her lover Won-jae who's studying in France. Finally he returns but with another man! And they start a wine bar together. Ho-jung notices something's going on between them and struggles to win Won-jae's love back, which is not an easy thing, of course. This movie opens recently in local theaters.

5 famous Korean directors get together to paint their version of love/lust on the screen. The thing that caught my eyes is two women on the second row who seem like secret lovers. According to the papers, they met as a wife and husband's lover and they became lovers. You may know it or not, the women (of the two) on the right is Korean pop diva and gay icon, Jung-wha Um . The title ogamdo can have various meanings because the word is a Chinese-oriented word( By that I don't mean that the word itself comes from China. I mean that the word consists of Chinese letters ). You know that Chinese can have many meanings even if it sounds the same. " Ogamdo " is a famous poem by Korean poeat called I-sang. I don't think I-sang is the poet's real name. In Korean, it can be heard as "something ideal" and "something weird" at the same time. Originally "Ogamdo" was a word created by the poet. In Korean, "a bird's-eye-vie

Herb Ritts is an American photographer who is well known for his B/W pictures. He tooks pictures of many celebrities and directed music videos for Madonna, Mariah Carey, Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson.

Josman is a British cartoonist who published his works through "Handjobs" magazine which fulfills the readers' fantasies about affairs between grown-ups and young boys. Josman's very talented and skilled cartoonist. He usually tells affairs between family members which makes me a little uncomfortable. But I got amazed by the way he depicts the scene. (He borrows the style from American super-hero cartoonists)

"Dasepo Sonyeo(sonyeo means girl in Korean)" or "Dasepo Naughty Girls" is a famous/notorious web-based comic strip which was adapted into film and soap opera in Korea. The main characters of this comic strip are high school students and the school is called "Mu-seul-mo(no use) High School". But all the accidents inside school remind us all kinds of social injustice from rich-poor gap, collapse of public education to sexual minority issue. But the virtue of this comic strip is that it touches all the issues with so much humor, humanity and sharpness. The writer uses a nickname "B-geup-dal-gung(B-rated dalgung)" but he's one of the best, I bet.

Angel*Crazy is a web-based comics featuring sexually confused university students. The title "Byeon-tai-cheon-sa" means "perverted angel" in Korean. But the writer gave this comic an English title, Angel*Crazy. The main character of this comic book is a student who gets confused after having sex with another man. Basically, most episodes are 4-cut comics which are hilarious, thought-provoking and heart-warming. You can search the writer's blog by searching "Angel Crazy". But I don't think you can find any English version of this book.