#choi min-shik

[henk-heijmans]

Busan, 1958 - by Choi Min-shik (1928 - 2013), South Korean

[fragrantblossoms]

Choi Min Shik.  Human, 1957-2006. 

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Sinopsis Big Bet Season 2 (2023)

Sinopsis Big Bet Season 2 (2023) – Big Bet Season 2 (2023) adalah serial drama Korea yang dibintangi Choi Min-Shik, Son Seok-Koo, dan Lee Dong-Hwi. Serial sepanjang 8 episode ini ditayangkan Disney+. Drama ini adalah sequel dari Big Bet (2022), yang ditayangkan juga oleh Disney+. Berikut sinopsis dan review drama Korea Big Bet Season 2 (2023). Plot sinopsis Big Bet Season 2 (2023) Meskipun…

[kooriyuki]

Big Bet - First Impression

Big Bet – First Impression

Story in a Nutshell The story revolves around the life of a Korean middle-aged man in the Philippines, Cha Moo-shik (Choi Min-shik), who’s made a name for himself as a casino tycoon. But as the opening of Ep 1 suggest, he’s being accused as a murderer of two Korean men, whom the audience are not told who the victims are. The first two episodes then went back and forth to the different periods of…

[pudding-bitches]

the loserism is high with these mfs

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FILMS in 2024: 28 | Oldboy 올드보이 (2003) — dir. Park Chan Wook

[ahneunjin]

The fox has broken the tiger's spine. EXHUMA 파묘 (2024) dir. Jang Jae-hyun

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Character Posters for Exhuma

[louismoncher]

파묘 Exhuma (2024) did a real ritual performed by Kim Go Eun and Lee Do Hyun in the movie:

"Of course we came to daesalgut filming set! The reason why my mother keeps going to the set it was because (they) really use real mantra, candles and offering like we do. A person held a pine tree (Lee Dohyun), (if thing goes south) we don't know what kind of ghost will actually appear..."

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Squad.

JINNY'S KITCHEN 2 (2024)

[junkobato]

BEST KDRAMA IN 2024✨ (pt 1)

Which one is your favorite so far? ☺️

[stormdragon23]

Monarch/Ruler Successors AU

This is just my personal headcanons on this AU since I have my own take

Kind of a mashup of others' ideas honestly, plus a couple of my own though I think they came from one person in particular

Very subject to change as I read Ragnarok. And when I'm finally able to play the game

Monarchs:

Choi Jong-In as The Monarch of Destruction, the King of Dragons

Baek Yoon-Ho as The Monarch of Fangs, the King of Beasts

Hwang Dong-Soo as The Monarch of the Iron Body, the King of Monstrous Humanoids

Kang Tae-Shik as The Monarch of Transfiguration, the King of Demonic Spectres

Eun-Seok as The Monarch of Frost, the King of the Snow Folk

Lim Tae-Gyu as The Monarch of the Beginning, the King of Giants

Goto Ryuji as The Monarch of White Flames, the King of Demons

Park Hee-Jin as The Monarch of Plagues, the Queen of Insects

Ruler Vessels:

Cha Hae-In

Min Byung-Gyu

Thomas Andre

Liu Zhigang

Christopher Reed > Lennart Niermann

Sung Il-Hwan

Go Gunhee > Woo Jin-Chul

Siddharth Bachchan (Don't have a pic for him, but that's not my fault)

Open to questions. Because I don't know what else to say

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TIME TO HUNT (2020) dir. Yoon Sung Hyun

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[lonelylonelyghost]

Exhuma - spirits, foxes and weird coffins

a.k.a always trust your guts if you're working with demons

A geomancer, a mortician and a pair of shamans are tasked to relocate a suspiciously located grave, and as often as these movies go, things go sideways.

One of the reasons why I decided to watch it was a supernatural element. And I'm happy to announce that they delivered on that front fully. It's moody and foggy; spirits, old secrets and the dense, dark forest weigh on you even through the screen.

(also it's not very dark in a metaphorical sense, so if you're only moderately squeamish about gore on screen, then you'll be fine)

I know almost nothing about Korean shamanic practices apart from what I see in movies and kdramas, but goddamn this movie piqued my curiosity. It is scary but so, so fascinating. I wouldn't want to mess with this kind of thing irl, but if someone has any research articles or some other online resources, please let me know 🙏

(Why is horse blood is used for cleansing? Can any horse be used for that? Or only a special kind?)

I know slightly (but only very slightly) more about burial rituals and afterlife folklore, as it can be sort of considered my special interests.

When I find a cemetery and have some free time, I usually walk around and try to find the oldest grave. But none that I found could be traced back earlier than to the end of 19th century (unless there's an important figure buried). And since I'd noticed it, I've been plagued with a question - what happens to the graves that were standing there before? Especially if the cemetery is old, and people have been definitely dying for longer than 150 years.

Where do the old bones go?

There are different answers depending on the culture/religion/region/political climate, but here they touch a bit on one of them, which I found fascinating.

The other reason why I decided to check this movie out is very superficial but welp, what can I do...

I may be ace, but I still have eyes, OK?

Now spoilers for the ending!!

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For those of you who are anxious little beans like me and worried about the characters surviving throughout the whole ordeal (because Korean movies tend to be depressing as hell), I'm happy to tell y'all that they are all alive and (relatively) well at the end!

There was even one very funny moment at the end, when one of the characters is severely wounded and preparing to die. His inner monologue is all "ash to ashes, dust to dust, I'm ready to peacefully go to another plane, that's how it's all supposed to be, oh wait, I have my daughter's wedding to attend, woops". And then he just like, doesn't die. That was awesome.

I also liked how even though they defeated the evil spirit, the gang is still left traumatized. Because all of them are experienced masters in their own craft, but the world of supernatural is absolutely terrifying. And all of them are only humans, with human minds and human emotions, walking a very thin line between our world and the hidden one.