The 13th Pucheon International Fantastic Film Festival Bizarre imagination attracts the city

A bridge for exchange of human and material resources for Asian genre movies

Pucheon International Fantastic Film Festival(Pifan) celebrates its 13th grand opening and hopes to leap even further. The festival runs from July 16th to 26th in many different part of the city, including Pucheon Citizen’s Hall, City Hall Main Auditorium, Boksagol Culture Center and CGV Pucheon. Pifan is the symbolic event that represents Pucheon, the city of change, creation and cultre. The festival had its fi rst opening in 1997 in Pucheon, which has been recognized as the mecca fi lm culture of movies, animations and games.

Pifan has been ardently supported by Korean movie maniacs for past twelve years and recently has been acknowledged also by the international fi lm community as a dynamic fi lm festival with new sentiment and energy. Pifan’s creative and progressive program last year gained many great reviews from both Korean and foreign reviewers for offering new perspectives for the genre movies. The festival also moved a step closer to a fi rm establishment of its identity. Over 200 movies will be shown during the festival this year, including special and retrospective movies of unknown genre movies from 30 countries such as France, Germany, Japan, China and Korea. Yeongmi Kim, a PR specialist for the festival mentioned that “many movies, like Restricted Area, carrying a message of new and intense beginning will be shown during the festival.” A lot of effort has been put into developing event facilities, including ‘Sopoong’ of Pucheon Express Bus Terminal, and it is expected that those facilities will bring the audiences even closer to the festival



Many exhibitions and interactive events are planned for the festival such as ‘Fantastic Concert’ and ‘3D fi lm Experience’. NAFF, Network of Asian Fantastic Films, also has prepared a lot to show this year. The organization has been working hard to promote exchanges of human and material resources for Asian genre movies and to help the advance of Asian genre movie industry.

The opening ceremony will be held on 16th, 7 p.m. in Citizen Hall’s Performance Theatre and many Korean and world celebrities are invited on the Red Carpet. The heroine of “Boys over fl ower”, the mega hit
drama series, is to attend the ceremony as a movie director. Her movie “The Cheerful Helper” will be shown during the festival. A concert, as a pre-event for the opening ceremony, will boost the festive spirit in City Hall Central Park, July 9th. Visitors can also enjoy Character Exhibition featuring heroes and heroines from mystery animations in Boksagol Culture Center. Junior Critique Contest invites the local high school students to show their talents as an aspiring movie critic and Fantastic Film School also will be in session during
the festival and participants can learn how to write movie scenarios and to analyze a SF novel.

Admission for the general movies is 5,000 won and 10,000 won for movies in the opening, closing and late-night showing. Ticket reservation begins on 23rd, on www. pifan.com.

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Gyeonggi International Boat Show,enjoys a recognition as a leading Asian boat show

International boating magazines report the show with great admiration

Many influential international boating magazines admired Gyeonggi International Boat Show.

They had an interview with Gyeonggi Governer Kim Moon Su at VIP room, Jeongok Port on June 5th. The interview focused mainly on the future of Ocean Leisure Industry n Korea. Guy Nowell of Yacht Style
Hong Kong, participating in the show for wo consecutive years, commented that he elieves Gyeonggi International Boat Show as established itself as a leading Asian boat how.

He asked the Governor, since the next step s very crucial for further advance, what his isions were. The Governor replied that he ees as that a lot of effort has been put into he show since the first year to satisfy many equirements to become an international oat show and that more weight will be put nto business perspectives from next year. e explained about Jeongok Ocean Industrial omplex and “Gold Coast Project” of
West Coast of the nation.

James Boyd of IBI England asked Governor im how the attention and support ave been given to the ocean industry on a ational level. Mr. Boyd had been working a eport on ocean industry promotion policies
around the globe. Kim replied “Gyeonggi nternational Boat Show has been a turning oint for relevant industry field since there as been almost no awareness regarding cean industry. Especially, the government fficials have been greatly influenced by he show, realizing the importance of ocean ndustry. They have started to work on to oosen regulations and to secure a 50 billion on budget for ocean leisure industry.” Gyeonggi International Boat Show and orld Boat Competition are leading the ovement”, he added.

The tension in the West Coast area between he two Koreas was also brought up as an ssue during the interview and the foreign eporters were curious about its effects on he boat show. Governor Kim commented hat domestic and foreign media have a tendency o exaggerate the situation and that, s they may have seen, no effect has been ade. “Jeongok Ocean Industrial Complex nd “Gold Coast Project” of West Coast will e face no obstacles”, he assured.



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