Victim(1961, UK)

Director - Basil Dearden
Star - Dirk Bogarde

 It is a British movie released in 1960s. I had wanted to see it after Roger Ebert's GREAT MOVIES introduced it. I had delayed to watch it until few hours ago as it haven't had a subtitle.

 It was provocative itself by showing the story in which a homosexual person appeared - especially in 1961, London. In this movie, people saw a picture which seems shocking. But it never appears to the end.
 Dirk Bogarde decided to act the main character and some interpreted this as his coming-out.

By accepting what looked like career suicide to star in "Victim," wasn't he making much the same decision as his character Melville Farr -- to do the right thing, and accept the consequences? Didn't he, in effect, come out as an actor in that and many other roles (notably as the aging homosexual in "Death in Venice")?

in Victim in Great Movies by Roger Ebert

King Bongsang(봉상왕) - Kicked out of his throne

 King Bongsang(烽上王) was the 14th King in Goguryeo dynasty(B.C 37- 668). [reign 292-300]
 Right after succession he got avid to eliminate his political rivals. He killed his uncle, Dalga who had worship in the country as a sage and his brother Dolgo. Not like his father, his son, Eulbul ran away to survive chasing. Despite consecutive famine, he forced subjects to build a palace and led for expedition to China.

 For this reason he finally kicked out of his throne. After that Changjori, a minister, helped Eulbul to the throne. Eulbul became the 15th King, Michon.

 A Tomb in Goguryeo
Dynasty

Mural paintings in Tombs in Goguryeo dynasty

A balance of trade in components and intermediary goods is improving

Up to early 2000s, it had been poor in competitiveness in the world market. A trade deficit in this industry with Japan had been getting deepen about which some within the financial world worried. That's because finished good industries like cars, shipbuilding, home appliances mainly imported components and intermediary goods made in Japan.

It got to become at a tipping point late 2000s -big firms such as Samsung, LG, or Hyundai started to increase its invest on R&D and government made related laws are the reasons.

Now the government has chosen about 200 R&D subjects by 2020.
 - Super light metal material for a flying car
 - Solar paint : The type of paint being able to become solar cells after painted on cars or clothes.
- Eco Friendly Pavement :  Absorbing gas emission or dust from cars

Original Article(in Korean)
http://biz.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/12/26/2013122603880.html

Kizuna(紲-庵治石の味, 2013)

 It is a movie about stone carpenter.
As there was no subtitle(neither Eng nor Kor), there was no choice to watch without it. Fortunately, the story of this movie mainly depicted not in the dialogue but in scenes.

 In the opening, there seemed a child's memory, in which the father show him a wooden xylophone. The movie shows the small city where most of the people have stone-carving job. You can hear hammering sounds that strike stones. They are rather sweet than merely of noise. The story line is simple. After a child's father die, the father come back his home and pass the stone skills down to his grandson. The people admire nature - before they destroy a huge crude stone, they bow to stone. Sometimes they even taste stones, in which scene the child ask whether it's joke.
 This is also movie about a young people settling down to the job and life, after some troubles. The young boy has his family, co-worker who give affection and help him design his future life. In the end, the grown-up child inherit his father's life. He show his child the instrument just like beginning of the movie.

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The words expressed in English are sometimes wrong and/or awkward.
You may find some words are wrongly stated, during scrutiny.
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