April Snow

‘A Melodrama in the biggest scale!’

The movie ‘Outing’ (director Huh Jinho, produced by Blue Storm), which has drawn a lot of attention by starring two Korean Wave stars Bae Yong Jun and Son Yejin, will be recorded as a melodramatic movie of biggest scale ever made in Korean movie history.

A source from the movie ‘Outing’ said in the recent interview with Sportstoday, ‘We expect the movie to be made with a budget of 6 billion won including 4 billion of net production cost and marketing expenses. It can exceed it as this is just an estimate.’ Considering that most melodramatic movies cost 2 to 3 billion in Korean movie industry, this ‘Outing’ is indeed of size of a blockbuster. It wasn’t officially written but the movie industry considers ‘Eraser in my head’ (director Lee Jaehan, produced by Cydus Pictures) which opened last fall starring Jung Woosung and Son Ye Jin and drew 2.7 million viewers nationwide, as the biggest melodramatic movie so far. For ‘Eraser in my head’, total production cost was 4.5 billion won including net production cost 3 billion and marketing expense 1.5 billion.

This source, emphasizing on confidence about domestic box office result and further on guaranteed advancement to pan-Asian market including Japan, said ‘This isn’t a simple task. We decided to make this mega-size investment in order to achieve a level of perfection for this movie so that we can present it anywhere with pride.’ ‘Externally’ at least, this movie has the best condition to become a box office hit attracting movie fans throughout Asia including Japan, not only because Korean viewers are already thrilled at return of Huh Jinho, director of ‘Christmas in August’ and ‘Spring days are passing’ but because Yonsama Bae Yong Jun and Son Ye Jin, a Korean Wave star candidate, paired up.

They will make a production announcement for ‘Outing’ somewhere in Seoul around on January 24th to announce an official start. Another source from this movie said, ‘60% of shooting will be done around Samchuk in Kangwon and we are expecting to spend at least 4 months to produce this movie.’

Source: byjtogether 29th December 2004

“Bae Yong Jun” set menu is not an ordinary set menu.

April Snow, movie acted by Bae Yong Jung hasn’t released, but April Snow posters are everywhere in Samcheok city, where April Snow was shot, like it’s a ‘Bae Yong Jung’ city.

勇樣裴您外出 韓劇場景看透透
日本粉絲哈韓第一名 三陟小鄉搶先遊

韓流天王裴勇俊的新片「外出」9月9日全亞洲同步上映，韓國觀光公社與永業旅行社9月1日起，推出追尋裴勇俊足跡的「裴您外出」新遊程，五天四夜每人16900元，四人同行一人免費。

韓國觀光公社支社長徐英忠表示，裴勇俊的新片「外出」在韓國東海岸的三陟拍攝，把海邊的小鄉炒熱，日本的裴迷已先進駐三陟，因此，韓國觀光公社很樂意配合永業推出追尋韓劇拍攝地點的新行程，而且冬天是江元道滑雪季，三陟可結合江元道之旅，成為冬季新遊程。

「裴您外出」五天四夜的遊程，從仁川開始，經南怡島，住宿鳳凰城渡假村（藍色生死戀場景），再到三陟、正東津等江元道的景點。不僅僅是追隨裴勇俊足跡，所到之處還包括韓劇「浪漫滿屋」的浪漫小別墅、「冬季戀歌」與「情定大飯店」中重要場景、「巴黎戀人」中的噴水池公園、「夏日香氣」中的仁寺洞，以及「春日」、「藍色生死戀」的景點等。

旅行社表示，近五年來韓劇造成的「韓國朝聖團」人數劇增，已晉升為台灣出國旅遊的第四大國。而日本則是哈韓第一名，尤其是哈裴勇俊的第一大國。

從裴勇俊要到韓國東海岸的三陟拍片後，每天到三陟的日本粉絲至少有50人，其中有粉絲陪著裴勇俊住在三陟四個多月；所以裴勇俊走過的地方，坐過的椅子、躺過的地板、住過的飯店等，都成為粉絲追逐拍照留戀的地方。

「外出」拍攝的景點包括關東的竹西樓、三星Motel、路過的「自行車小偷」和「咖啡英」咖啡店，行程中都會安排並品嘗所謂「勇俊套餐」，噱頭十足。

整個三陟市原本是鳥不拉屎的地方，現在到處貼滿了「外出」及裴勇俊的海報，業者形容三陟因為裴勇俊幾乎已變成一座「裴城」。

Source: 世界日報 17th August 2005