April Snow

It has been decided that movie ‘Outing’ will be released abroad with the title ‘April Snow”. The movie ‘Outing’ starring BYJ and Son Yejin (directed by Huh Jinho and produced by Blue Storm) will have an English title of ‘April Snow’ and a Japanese title of ‘四月の雪’(April Snow).

Blue Storm, the production company, which confirmed the English title ‘April Snow’ from the beginning, has been agonizing over its Japanese title and recently decided on ‘四月の雪’, which is the direct translation of ‘April Snow’ in Japanese.

An official from Blue Storm relayed that English title ‘April Snow’, which has a totally different meaning from its Korean title ‘Outing’, was one of many Korean titles that director Huh has had in mind from the start.

The idea came from the scene where Suhyoung (Son Ye Jin) in the movie answered, “I like spring, but I also like snow in the winter, so I wish it snowed in the spring.”, when asked by Insoo(Bae Yong Jun) which season was her favorite.

Blue Storm revealed that director Huh went over many titles including ‘April Snow’ before he decided on the Korean title ‘Outing’, and used ‘April Snow’ as its English title as he kept it in mind.

A source at Blue Storm said, “The movie will have director Huh’s trade-mark calm and lyrical feeling. They also chose English and Japanese titles that can uphold such feeling.”

Director Huh also used metaphoric and lyrical ‘Christmas in August’ as the title of his previous movie starring Hah Sukgyoo and Shim Eunha.

On a different note, as movie ‘Outing’ plans to open the set to domestic and foreign press around the end of March in an unprecented scale, the production company is currently working hard on how to proceed the event.

Source: Money Today March 1st 2005 by Lee Gyoochang

A big-scale outdoor concert scene in ‘Outing’, which is the climax of the movie that has been hidden in a veil of mystery, will be filmed at the real concert scene. It will be sensational as this is the first attempt in the Korean movie history.

The production team of ‘Outing’ will produce the concert scene at Seoul outdoor concert hall with top singers and 8,000 audience on April 24th.

They paid a lot of attention to this large scale outdoor concert scene even before the start, because they had to book good singers and mobilize a large number of extras and find a shootable outdoor concert place.

The production team of ‘Outing’ said that this way they could film the vivid scene of the big outdoor concert, and that they would offer to the concert audience an experience to participate as extras in the movie, in addition to viewing the concert with top singers.

The big outdoor concert was also titled as ‘Outing’ like the name of the movie. It is interesting that the concert and the movie proceed under the same title.

This big scale outdoor concert scene belongs to the latter half of the movie, in which Insoo (Bae Yong Jun), a lighting director for the concert, reminesces about Suhyoung (Sohn Yejin), who he fell in the most passionate love of his life with in the winter a few years ago. It will be the climax of ‘Outing’.

They are at the final stage of booking singers who will participate in the concert ‘Outing’ and all profit from the concert will be donated for charity fund for poor neighbors.

Source: My Daily March 1, 2005 and Bae Yong Jun’s Quilt

As Korean movie ‘April Snow’s mini homepage exceeds 200,000 visitors 18 days after the mini homepage was opened, this cinema starring Bae Yong-joon and Son Ye-jin makes good box office expect in September when the film will be released.

Thanks to steady netizen’s interest, ‘April snow’s mini homepage which was opened on late July 11, posted the number of its visitors 218,492 people after all on July 29.

The movie has brought about so tremendous response as to draw netizen 20,000 people only in its first day of the mini homepage opening.

The movie’s production firm said that key reason of this mini homepage popularity is attributed to the element with which the firm drawn the audience’s participation and sympathy such as ‘April snow story making’ and ‘OST I make’.

Directed by Heo Jin-ho and co-starring Son Ye-jin from “A Moment to Remember,'’ the film tells the story of a man and woman who fall in love with each other after they find their spouses have betrayed them.

This cinema’s plot is unrolled with a story in which In-soo (played by Bae Yong-joon) rushes to Samcheok upon learning that his wife Su-jin (played by Lim Sang-hyo), who was on a business trip, has been in a car accident.
There he finds Su-jin who is still unconscious in the hospital in an unfamiliar provincial town. In the process of dealing with the aftermath of the accident, he finds out that Su-jin was in the car with a man named Gyeong-ho (played by Ryu Seung-su), who is also unconscious and lingering between life and death.

The injured mans wife, Seo-young (played by Son Ye-jin), also rushed to Samcheok upon hearing the news. In-soo and Seo-young both feel angered and betrayed when they learn of the relationship between Su-jin and Gyeong-ho.

As they nurse the spouses they had trusted, In-soo and Seo-young feel a chemistry developing between them…

The Source : Koreacontent News Team 31st July 2005