It is with regret that I need to announce that due to
unforeseen circumstances I will have to stop working on
Daejeon What's On and
Daejeon What's Where.
As many of you know, these two blogs grew out of an earlier project of mine
KAIST What's On [which continues as a project of the
KAIST Undergraduate Students Association]. The aim of the project was two-fold namely (1) to let people know in English what was happening in and around
Daejeon and (2) to help in the economic growth of the city and its region by encouraging people to spend money here.
While work on the blogs has been
surprisingly time
consuming, I have always
enjoyed doing it and hope it has been of some
benefit to you.
For now, be good and happy,
best wishes,
Simon
p.s. For those of you who still want to keep up with what's happening in
Daejeon, I would
recommend to you the following websites:
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For movies:
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1. The
Daejeon site for the Korean Language Movie site
'Cinecine.com'
http://www.cinecine.co.kr/playing_info.asp?state=4
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2. The site for the
Daejeon Art Cinema:
http://www.cinei.org/
[once there scroll down to the 'cafe.naver.com/artcinema' link to see upcoming programs].
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For Concerts etc../
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1. The website for the
Daejeon Cuture & Arts Center:
http://www.djac.or.kr/index.html
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2. The
Daejeon site for the
Interpark.com ticket purchasing website:
http://ticket.interpark.com/TiKi/Special/TPRegionReserve.asp?ImgYn=Y&Region=42061&RegionName=대전
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General Sites:
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In
additon to these sites a number of other sites are worth keeping an eye on including:
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1. The ever present and reliable
Socious in Daejeon site run by
Kimberely Hogg:
http://www.socius.or.kr/
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2. the all Korean website
Love Daejeon
http://lovedaejeon.kr/
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[Please keep an eye on this post over the couple of days as I will put up some links to some more resources as the week goes on]
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Underachieving law student Takemura (Odagiri Joe) - on his eighth year and counting - has racked up quite a sizable debt in the name of higher education. The urgency of his financial situation announces itself in the form of hot-tempered debt collector Fukuhara (Miura Tomokazu), who comes bursting into his apartment one night demanding payment and threatening painful repercussions. Short of hitting it big on pachinko, Takemura has no idea how he can possibly pay back the sum. As the deadline closes in, Fukuhara makes Takemura an unexpected proposition: walk with him from Kichijoji (in western Tokyo) to Kasumigaseki (in central Tokyo), and he’ll pay the indebted student one million yen, enough to cover his debt. Bewildered but in no position to argue, Takemura hits the road with Fukuhara who, it turns out, just killed his wife and wants to turn himself in at a specific police station in Kasumigaseki. Getting there will take some time though, because many wacky people and surprise detours await them on the road in between.
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Country: Japan
Runtime: 101 mins
Cinemas: Multiplexes
Opening: Thursday 16th October 2008
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Under the Same Moon tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico. Unexpected circumstances drive both Rosario and Carlitos to embark on their own journeys in a desperate attempt to reunite. Along the way, mother and son face challenges and obstacles but never lose hope that they will one day be together again. [
Fox Searchlight]
Country: Mexico
Runtime: 106 mins
Cinemas: Multiplexes
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Within four years from 2008 the economy of the United States has fallen into disaster, Unemployment and crime rises, and private corporations run most prisons across the nation for profit. The movie focuses on the Terminal Island Prison, which broadcast "Death Race" to the world via a popular paysite on internet. Death Race is not only a race to the finish line, but a battle pitting car against car.
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Country: USA
Runtime: 105 mins
Cinemas: Multiplexes
Opening: Thursday 16th
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Sidney Young is a disillusioned intellectual who both adores and despises the world of celebrity, fame and glamour. His alternative magazine, Post Modern Review, pokes fun at the media obsessed stars and bucks trends, and so when Young is offered a job at the diametrically opposed conservative New York based Sharps magazine its something of a shock! It seems Sharps editor Clayton Harding is amused by Young's disruption of a post-BAFTA party with a pig posing as Babe. Thus begins Sidney's descent into success - his gradual move from derided outsider to confidante of starlet Sophie Maes - and a love affair with colleague Alison Olsen, that will either make him or break him.
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Director: Robert B. Weide
Country: U.K.
Runtime: 110 mins
Cinemas: Mutliplexes
Opening: Thursday 16th October 2008
Trailer: How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
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