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S Korean film festival to be held in Yangon next month
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A South Korean film festival will be held in Myanmar's biggest city of Yangon next month to boost cultural exchange and cooperation between the two countries, sources with the South Korean embassy said Thursday.

The four-day film festival, which is the fifth of its kind, will run from Oct. 16 to 19 at the Thamada cinema, the sources said.

Four South Korean movies namely Summer Whispers (romance), Mom's Way (Drama), Marathon (Drama) and Oseam (Animation) will be screened on the occasion, they said, adding that a famous South Korean actress, Lee Young Eun, who played the main role in the "Summer Whispers" and two South Korean film directors will attend the show.

South Korean film festival has been held in Myanmar since 1998 with the last being held in November 2008, in which five South Korean movies - Le Grand Chief, Hello, Goodbye, Little Brother and My Love were screened.

Meanwhile, Myanmar and South Korea are also cooperating in shooting documentary film on Myanmar's Buddhism and natural scenery, and an agreement on the move was initiated in February this year between the Myanmar Ministry of Information and the Korea Broadcasting Institute (KBI).

The documentary film on production will be broadcast in South Korean TV channels such as KBS-1, KBS-2, MBC, and SBS, the South Korean embassy sources said.

Moreover, another South Korean TV, the KBS, has been shooting a similar documentary -- Insight in Asia 2009 -- since the end of last year.

The KBS group had come to Myanmar earlier in the year and video Myanmar's ancient city of Bagan, where over 2,000 pagodas and monasteries lie.

(Xinhua News Agency September 25, 2009)

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