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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.

Boy Meets Boy is a Korean short film dealing with love affairs between high school mates. The director of this movie produced another Korean queer movie, No Regret. BMB is an autobiographical story of the director who's a renowned movie producer in Korea. According to his interview, finding and accepting his own sexual orientation wasn't that hard for him, unlike in most queer movies. He accepted himself with joy and so did his family and friends, I read from articles. Because it's a short film I don't know if I can get any chance to watch this film. But I hope that I'll have the opportunity.

Sang-wha-jeom or Ssang-wha-jeom is a Korean movie dealing with love triangle among a king, a queen and a king's guardian warrior. Before Chosun Dynasty, there was Corea Dynasty in Korean Peninsula. According to many historical records, Corea Dynasty was even more liberal than Chosun Dynasty where Confucianism played a big part in every area, politics, family rules and so on. So during the Corean period, women could inherit properties and love poems were allowed. The title of this movie is one of the love poem, a little bit sex poem. The main character the King, Gong-min is portrayed as gay even in records. Some says he hired many beautiful male warriors around him. But history is always re-written by the winner. So we can't be sure which is true and which is false. But at least we can say there was something "queer" about him. The movie runs in Korea on the 30th of December, this year. I'm waiting.