Showing posts with label South Korea. Show all posts
Showing posts with label South Korea. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

GLove Trailer - The First Deaf Baseball Team

VIDEO [CC] - GLove Trailer - The first hearing impaired baseball team in english subtitles.



South Korea - 'GLove' (Korean Movie - 2011) - A cocky ex-baseball player goes to the countryside to coach a team of Hearing-Impaired Boys. The school's baseball team consisted of 25 players who were Deaf.



What started out as a PR stunt to salvage his reputation turns into a serious bid for the National Championships. Acclaimed Korean director Kang Woo-seok’s first film based on a true story, 'GLove,' tells the story of a baseball team whose members are all hearing-impaired.



Kim Sang-nam (Jeong Jae-yeong), a hot-tempered former professional baseball player, is sent to the countryside to coach a team of hearing-impaired players in order to avoid media coverage of his recent involvement in an assault case.







At first, Kim has a difficult time imagining how he can teach baseball to a group of boys who can’t hear, but as he spends time with them he starts to believe that they can play the game.



Motivated, Kim decides to help them prepare for the nationals. But things don’t go the way Kim plans and their difficulties communicating with one another exacerbates the situation.



Kim Sang-nam (Jeong Jae-yeong) Cast, Staff, Actors, ... DVD 2-Disc - First Press Limited Edition (En Sub) at: Share GLove (글러브)'s Picture

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

Korean Sex Crime Movie Highlights Nation’s Anger

VIDEO: English Subtitles - Four teachers and administrators jailed for sexual abusing at Deaf school.



SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - In 2006, Teachers were convicted of raping or sexually molesting at least eight students, ages 7 to 22 at a South Korean School for the Deaf.



Due to the country's lenient sentencing for sexual abuse, only two of the four officials served jail time. The case received limited attention at the time, but a new film based on the story has helped to fuel the nation's growing outrage.



The New York Times reports that Dogani or The Crucible, which was released about a month ago, has now been seen by 4.4 million people, or nearly one in 10 South Koreans.





The case could have been largely forgotten if it wasn't for a newspaper intern who blogged about the trial. After one official at the Inhwa School for the hearing impaired was sentenced to only a year in jail for raping a 13-year-old girl, a Deaf man sitting in the courtroom screamed and tried desperately to express his anger through sign langage.



Lee Ji-won wrote, "It was clear that the man was shouting, ‘This is wrong! This is wrong!"' The blog inspired author Gong Ji-young to write a novel about the crimes committed at the school, and now the film based on the book has brought the story to an even larger audience.



As The Economist puts it, the response to the film has been "nothing short of earth-shaking." The film has inspired South Koreans to express their anger over a legal system that routinely allows those convicted of sex crimes to walk free.



Six people were indicted in the Inhwa case, and two of the perpetrators went to jail for less than a year. Another two were given a suspended sentence, and the others were acquitted because the statute of limitations on sex crimes had passed.



This disturbing outcome was typical, according to a report issued last year by South Korea's education ministry. Most teachers found guilty of sex crimes are sentenced to a salary cut and a short suspension... Read more at http://jezebel.com/5850770/south-korean-sex-crime-movie-highlights-nations-anger



The Crucible (The Film) from Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Crucible_%282011_film%29



Related Article:

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/09/29/html



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Monday, October 17, 2011

The Real Story of Deaf Teenage Girl

VIRAL VIDEO: The real story of Japanese Deaf teenage girl in a picture.



English description - This is the real story about Deaf teenage girl in Japan in few years ago... The story is about a japanese Deaf girl, her name is Sonee and she was the best artist student at the Deaf school in Japan, and suddenly shortly before she committed suicide, she drew this picture, and scanned it and posted it online.



The freaky bit is this, they say it is hard for a person to stare into the girl's eyes for longer than 5 minutes...there are reports that some people have taken thier own lives after doing so...people says the picture changes.







Therefore, in South Korea this story broke out and it spread like wildfire. There are various posts around in Korean forums that say that the viewer gets drawn to the girl's blue eyes, they say they can detect a hint of wraith and sadness within the eyes. Maybe the girl had died with so much sadness and anger that her spirit haunts the image, or maybe the image provokes sadness.



Can you tell it? But first at all, you have to click full screen of this video and do not move your eyes, just stare at the picture and you will notice that the picture is suddenly changing.







The orinigal video: SONEE: Scary Clip Video



Facts of The Real Story About Sonee:

http://www.ethereality.info/ethereality_website/paintings_drawings/new/illustrations/melancholic_princess/melancholic_princess.htm



Note: This post is a fake and fiction.

Saturday, October 15, 2011

Deaf Movie 'Silenced' Official Trailer

VIDEO [CC] - 'Silenced' Official Trailer (2011 HD) - Based on true story about the sexual assaults at Deaf school in South Korea.



SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - In 2005 a shocking set of sexual abuse cases happened at South Korean School for the Deaf for girls. The teachers involved received relatively light sentences that maybe about to change.



SILENCED, based on a novel details the drama that went during that horrific time in perhaps one of the most controversial films of the year. As of the time of writing, the entire nation is in an uproar, that at the very least, reveals in stark detail the power of film. The film has also been at number one for weeks.





More information about the film can be found on the official Kobiz website: koreanfilm.or.kr/jsp/films/index/filmsView



Based off the novel 'Dokani' - The Crucible tells the story of an art teacher whom begins teaching at a Deaf school. When he begins teaching there, he is dreaded by the uncomfortable atmosphere and fears there is more to the school than meets the eye, and there is. He, and a human rights activist, crack down on the school and their unfair dealings, and soon descovers that there is a man whom sexually assaults the little girls there. Movie was proposed by leading actor Gong Yoo, whom fell in love with the book during his time in the milirary, and felt the book needed to be adapted into film. This also marks Gong Yoo's 1st role outside of romantic comedies, which he was type-casted with.



Related Article:

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2011/09/29/html



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