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TAPE: EF02/0897 IN_TIME: 06:22:46 DURATION: 4:45 SOURCES: APTN/Taewon Entertainment \Cinema Services RESTRICTIONS: No re-use/re-sale of film clips without clearance DATELINE: Seoul 18/10/02 SHOTLIST 1 Clips of the Glory of Our Family 2 Various shots of people at a movie theater and movie posters 3 Vox pops: I think this movie makes people to laugh simply and forget about boring life 4 Vox pops: (The director) made this gangster film very delightfully Also it contains popular appeal That's why I enjoyed this movie 5 Poster 6 Clips of the Glory of Our Family 7 Cutaway of Kim Jeong-eun, main actress 8 SOUNDBITE (Korean) by Kim Jeong-eun, actress This movie mixed various things that people like and brought those things into family affection which seems to make people like this movie This is not a story about gangster, but just used gangsters to set up a background Based on this, this movie was produced as romantic and family comedy movie These elements seem to make people forget about their stress and enjoy and laugh 9 Clips 10 cutaway of a director of the movie, The Glory of Our Family 11 SOUNDBITE (Korean) by Jung Hungsoon, director of The Glory of the Family The item was good and I started working on scenario with this item two years ago I tried to make a movie that can satisfy Korean people's sentiment Very Korean-style movie That's why this movie have appealed to people 12 Cutaway of movie making and movie poster photo taking 14 Cutaway of Oh Dong-jin, Senior reporter at FILM 20 magazine 15 SOUNDBITE (Korean) by Oh Dong-jin, Senior reporter at FILM 20 magazine When the Glory of Our Story was released, the movie was not welcomed by critics But it's true that this kind of romantic comedies or gangster comedies have always been enjoyed by a certain number of people Also this kind of movie contributes something to society Because we live in a very complicated and wicked society, people expect to laugh simply from this kind of movie So I think this kind of people's expectation has helped this movie to make a top score on the box office 16 movie posters 17 people at the theater 18 SOUNDBITE (Korean) Oh Dong-jin, Senior reporter at FILM 20 magazine Even though Korean movie industry has developed a lot for last 2 to 3 years or 4 to 5 years, I don't think Korea movie monopolize Korean movie market, sweeping Hollywood movie out of Korea But not anymore will (Korean) movie industry or culture be composed or structured by cultural subordinate relationship because Korean movie has been developing enough energy by itself 19 Various shots of Korean movie posters with Hollywood movies at the theater ROMANTIC COMEDY BREAKS RECORDS A gangster movie has broken Korean box-office records this year, marking over 420 million admissions midweek Few critics expected 'The Glory of Our Family' to be so successful after it being criticized for being just another gangster comedy But the majority of movie goers seem to think that 'The Glory of Our Family' is the best movie of the year In the film a young venture CEO Dae-seo wakes up naked with an strange woman next to him on the bed Unfortunately the woman, Jin-kyung, is a gangster boss's only daughter The accident causes Jin-kyung's brothers to break into Dae-seo's office to threaten him and beat him up However when they discover that Dae-seo is a law school graduate from Seoul National University (a top Korean IVY-league school) they decide that he must be the one who should marry Jin-kyung, a college educated but ignorant girl The brothers think this match would be good for the family's reputation The resulting action revolves around her fathers and brothers efforts to make Dae-seo and Jin-kyung a happy couple in order for the union to bring glory to the gangster family The director tried to reflect current trends in Korean society where people believe their quality of life to be greatly enhanced by the level of education they recieve People's obsession for a good education has driven teen-agers in S Korea to spend their time studying extremely hard in order to secure places at top universities The Korean movie industry has developed a lot in the last few years and has changed the way Koreans think about Korean films Recently Korean movies have taken almost 50% of the box-office while many Hollywood films seems to be losing out This is the second movie for director Jung Hungsoon who made his debut in 1997 with The Wanted Man Costing $32m 'The Glory Of Our Family' has become the second major money-maker of the year for the Cinema Service after 'Kang Woo-suk's Public Enemy', which grossed $16m in February