South Korean actor Ahn Sung-ki will open the Vietnamese - Korean Film Festival on Saturday at CGV Theatre, 54A Nguyen Chi Thanh street in Hanoi. - Photo courtesy of the organising board (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA)- A-list actor of the Republic of Korea Ahn Sung-ki will attend the RoK - VietnamFilm Festival’s opening ceremony on December 15 in Hanoi.
This is a good chance for Korean movie fans in Hanoi to meet Sung-ki, who isregarded as a Korean national icon and is one of the most famous artists in theRoK. Along with Lee Byung Hun, he was one of the first Korean actors to leavehis footprints in Hollywood in front of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in 2012.
"Sung-ki is a legend in Korean cinema," said the Korean CulturalCentre’s director and festival organiser Park Hye-jin. "He is still one ofKorea’s hardest working actors and he has made his contribution to bringpopular Korean culture and Korean film to the world."
Sung-ki began his acting career at the age of five with TheTwilight Train byKim Ki-young. He had a small role in the famous TheHousemaid in1960 at the age of eight. He took a break of about 10 years from film acting,graduating from the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies’ Vietnamese StudyDepartment.
He won the respect and admiration of audiences and critics. His firstinternational award was for the best child actor at the San Francisco FilmFestival in 1960 for his role in Defiance of a Teenager.
The opening ceremony will show Unbowed at 5.30pm, with Sung-ki in theleading role. The film is directed by Chung Ji-young based on by the true storyof a maths professor. It was produced on a low budget with the actors’willingness to receive little pay. The filmbecame a box office hit with 3.4 million tickets sold.
Atalk with the actor will be held before the film showing, which will bepresented by Korean ambassador to Vietnam Lee Hyuk and popular Vietnamesetelev𝔉ision actresses Bao Thanh and Hong Diem.-VNA
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South Korean actor Ahn Sung-ki will open the Vietnamese - Korean Film Festival on Saturday at CGV Theatre, 54A Nguyen Chi Thanh street in Hanoi. - Photo courtesy of the organising board (Source: VNA)
