What are you going to watch when you go home for Thanksgiving?  It better be Ninja Assassin and it’s heavy Korean cast with Rain in the lead role.  Someone at the studio must think it’s going to be a big hit because they spent a pretty penny on commercials during the baseball playoffs and now a big billboard went up in Times Square.

Naked Play in Korea is all the buzz
It’s gotten pretty progressive in South Korea. The buzz across the Pacific is a play that bares it all during the bedroom scenes.  Is it pornography – a naked Korean Woman in a play?  It’s called 교수와 여제자 and it looks like a lot of middle-aged men are the ones buzzing.  For the rest of the pics, go to Chosun.com.

Obama, Harold & Kumar
We all know that President Obama is the first real U.S. President that represents diversity. Here’s a picture with Obama and some Asians, including one of his trusted aids – Eugene Kang in the far back. You may also recognize Kal Penn of Harold & Kumar fame on the right.

Video of the Day: Weird Wildlife at the DMZ
A South Korean MBC TV crew recently returned from an 18-month shoot that took them beyond the barbed wire and gun-turrets to record a documentary on the rare species that have made it an oasis from human interference.

“One of the things that makes it so special is that it has nearly all the eco-systems you’ll find in Korea,” Mark Strickson, a zoologist and producer of the documentary for NHNZ told CNN.

AMERICAN HWANGAP is Mr. Suh’s comedy, set in a West Texas suburb where a Korean American family prepares for the return of the husband and father who left them 15 years earlier to go back to his native Korea. Having chosen to return to the U.S. to celebrate his “hwangap” — the Korean expression for the traditional, much-revered milestone of one’s 60th birthday — patriarch Min Suk Chun sets off all manner of comic and heart-wrenching speculation and suspicion amongst his wife and grown children about the real reason for his homecoming. That one of them should end up sitting naked in a tree before the “hwangap” is concluded is just part of what makes this family reunion so memorable and unique.  Read>