Psychic Stills And Review

By : Nonie

The scene begins with the childhood life of a young Choi In  (Kang Dong -won). His mother covered his eyes and comfort him that he will heal faster.The tender moment of a mother and a son is  interrupted by Choi-in's mother abusive husband. He beats up Choi In's mother and it ends up provoked the anger of young Choi In.

And as we expected the little Choi In kills the man by his powerful eyes; the eyes who can control other to do what ever he wants,and the mother gets tired to him and decides to die together. But little Cho In eyes saves his life.

The flashback of Cho In childhood, give the viewer a brief description about Choi In's character when he grew up.

This is the adult Choi In , staying in the luxury hotel room, brooding and blames the world to make him such a a freak. If it is the weather , the best comparison of Choi In 's character is like the " dark night in a cold winter"

And here we are our Ko Soo, smiles broadly. Im Gyu Nam "the bright sun in the beautiful summer" is a simple, honest young man who works at the junk yard with his two foreigner best friends : a Ghanaian; "Boba" and a Turkish, Ali.

The way Gyu Nam's making friends with the 'second class foreigners' make the viewer understand how kind our Gyu Nam is ; the kindness that pass the race and the religion. I love when the three of them talk. Boba is the baby of the three, and Ali is the worrier. But Gyu Nam is their leader; the way they call him : 'Hyungnim" is somehow give the effect of love and respect.

On Friday they hang out together, funny thing : they go to the amusement park. It's hilarious to see how childish the three of them. At the end of the day : "Happy birthday" ....Ohh  the overhelming Gyu Nam smiles broadly receiving his birthday present. But uppps! What unexpected thing happened; Gyu Nam is hit by a car!

Here are  the three of them in the hospital. It's funny to see the way Boba's holding Gyu Nam's hand , and Ali's chat about "man's  three turning point". And Gyu Nam has done three already : Thomas runs away with his money, having unexpected accident and the third : He is fired from his job !!! (LOL)

What a funny thing to say that Gyu Nam actually has messed up  his life. Other may find what happened to Gyu Nam is something very miserable that even worth to commit suicide, but Gyu Nam just wakes up and looks for a job even when he has his leg cast

Utopia is a place where Gyu Nam apply for a job, it's a very small company and Gyu Nam is the only employee. There is a funny thing about the interview; Mr Cho, the boss, calls a police officer to check on Gyu Nam's crime record secretly. But since he has bad eyesight he cannot read Gyu Nam's  ID number easily. Gyu Nam who overhears the conversation dictates the number for him instead. 

This scene is funny of course but it gives again another description what kind of person Gyu Nam is. He doesn't get upset easily when other will. He takes everything at the bright side; normally Mr. Cho's act should hurt his pride but Gyu Nam takes it as a normal procedure.

The interview is something I love to highlight; when Mr. Cho ask Gyu Nam what he thought about life. Gyu Nam shyly said : " Life....., we live until we die" What a wonderful simple opinion which is very difficult to apply.

The first encounter between Cho In and Gyu Nam happened to be in his work place. That day Boba and Ali visit Gyu Nam's new office and he proudly says his new title : representative Im Gyu Nam. he loves his new job, his boss and of course the boss' daughter : Yoon Seok . 

Suddenly the door opens, Choi In comes in and everybody freeze, lose their conscious. Even Gyu Nam at the beginning is affected. But he struggles, his fingers starts to move and slowly his head turn to where Choi In's standing. 

This is the beginning war between Choi In and Gyu Nam. After Mr.Cho died, and Gyu Nam realized how scarry  and dangerous 'the evil spirit' Choi In. 

At first, he tried to turn Choi In to the police by giving them the video of CCTV. But alas, instead of keep their eyes to the suspect, they suspect more Gyu Nam, who they think , talk nonsense about the 'psychic' thing. There are another lines that I love from the conversation between Gyu Nam and Choi In. 

Gyu Nam : "Why did you kill my president ?, Can you revive him ?"
Cho In : " Of course , no"
Gyu Nam : " Then why do you kill people when you cannot revive them ?"
Again another 'wing's lines to explain that human no matter what doesn't have right to kill other people. The only One who can take human's life is only God, because He is the only one who's able to revive them. 

In every encounter between Cho In and Gyu Nam, Choi In will blame Gyu Nam for his action. He kills because Gyu Nam doesn't want to give up. When Gyu Nam asks him what he had to do to  make him stop kiliing people. Cho In only wants him to see him die.

Gyu Nam loses his two best friends, again normal people will just kill himself in this condition to save other's life and stop the Choi In's torturing. But Gyu Nam with his weapon" we live until we die" , struggles not to kill himself. His power is not his muscle or his super power strenght; his power is his strength to go on living no matter how hard he faces his life. And since he respect his life, he respects others life too. 

Nothing and nobody should kill people purposely since human's life is in God's hand. And I love the last lines what Gyu Nam's said at the scene in the rooftop " I will live to see you die", and  when both of Gyu Nam and Choi In fall from the rooftop , again Gyu Nam's lines are very touching. 

"Perhaps if we meet in another circumstance we will become a good friend", what a wonderful man with no ill heart at all. And Ko Soo has portrayed the wonderful Gyu Nam's perfectly. I should say Ko Soo in this film is like a  wonderful warm heart country boy. He is cool because he is simple, he is wonderful because he has a banal principle of life "We live until we die" which is the most difficult lines to apply in a real  life.

Ko Soo in Sony Short Movie

Do you want to see Ko Soo shoot the girl with...his camera ? The latest Sony CF's featured Ko Soo in "James Bond" like film.

The film started with Ko Soo voice in the background (it reminds me of his poems reading), and the camera focus on Ko Soo from a far. I love the setting of the film, I wonder if it was filming in Korea or in oversea instead, The building, Ko Soo suits and style somehow makes the film looks grand.

This is my favorite shoot, the antique building add to our hero the grand entrance, Ko Soo was here looking for someone. Camera shoot Ko Soo from the back....aww it's just too perfect that I can't find the fit word to explain this scene.

Well it seems Ko Soo enjoys so much doing action movie, remember what he did in "Green Rose" and recently in "Psychic" and next time in "Gojijeon". Waw...and now with this short movie...Perhaps next time he should be cast for the next "007 Agent" ?

At the end  I think it's better for you to watch the entire  CF, enjoy !

Psychic Movie Trailer

There is a new  translation as usual it is translated by ELSIE about  Ko Soo in Psychic :


Ko Soo exhibits fighting spirit for PSYCHIC despite injury

In this movie, Ko Soo takes on the role of Gyu-nam and like Gyu-nam, he wants to live a happy and contented life in a world of greed and prejudice.

Gyu-nam is a passionate youth who doesn’t have any parents nor brothers. Though he is poor, he blames no one for his misfortune and lives day to day seriously with an honest heart. He is 100% purity.

However, when Ko Soo meets the psychic (Kang Dong-won), he transforms from a pure happy youth to one with rising anger. Ko Soo expresses the emotion of someone who drastically changes in character perfectly.

In a confrontational scene Kang Dong-won uses his glare and beats up Gyu-nam (played by Ko Soo) ceaselessly and Ko Soo has to roll over and then falls.


In order for the action scene to appear realistic, Ko Soo did not use a wire for the shoot despite advice from the production crew. He had an accident and was injured in the face.

Ko Soo says, “That scene was special since I had chosen to do “Psychic”. During the shoot, “Psychic” was everything to me”.


PSYCHIC will be released on November 11, 2010.

And here are some pictures taken from asiatoday, caps by grass and sunny_maggie :

Thanks to Puppyiz for Psychic movie trailer link.

Kang Dong-won vs Ko Soo: The ultimate showdown… ‘Psychic’ posters released

Two movie stars with great acting abilities – Kang Dong-won meets Ko Soo. New upcoming director Kim Min-suk's fresh take on the confrontation between a psychic and a man who resists the psychic has attracted a good deal of attention. A teaser poster for this unusual movie has just been released.

Physic new released poster, Kang Dong Won permed his hair, Ko Soo is cool as usual

Just one day after the release of a movie still depicting the showdown between the two actors, PSYCHIC has zoomed to no. 1 in a popular search portal.

I believe this is a dark comedy drama, hope the chemistry will be great

In the teaser poster, Kang Dong-won who has eyes that could control a person's mind meets the intense gaze of Ko Soo. This heralds the start of an intense confrontation between the two men.

The dark mysterious eyes of Kang Dong-won and the fearless defiant gaze of Ko Soo which are displayed so prominently in the poster have made PSYCHIC even more appealing to audiences. Their confrontation through a series of glares and stares are akin to having come face to face with a monster. What has brought about the conflict? Everyone is curious to know.

Kang Dong-won’s mysterious charm and Ko Soo’s classic good looks and sincere attitude are the perfect choice as the main leads. This perfect casting has attracted a great deal of attention right from the start. The unique setting of a ‘realistic’ psychic meeting a man who does not succumb to his psychic powers is quite unlike a Hollywood Sci-Fi hero.

PSYCHIC is now in post-production. One of the most anticipated films in 2010, PSYCHIC is due for release in November 2010.

Translated by ELSIE from : artnews

About "SOME"

"Despite these reservations, it's a mystery to me why this film performed so horribly at the box-office. I accept that TV star Goh Soo and newcomer Song Ji-hyo (Wishing Stairs) don't have the star presence of Shim Eun-ha, Han Suk-kyu, or Jeon Do-yeon, who graced Chang's previous movies. Perhaps poor marketing was to blame, because Some didn't face much competition at the box office, yet few viewers bothered to check it out. The crowd I watched it with seemed quite engaged, and word of mouth was generally positive. In the end, Some remains a fascinating, nuanced feature which lost buckets of money, and which is well worth remembering"

a part of SOME's review from http://koreanfilm.org/kfilm04.html#some

"If you didn't know better, you'd swear leading man Soo Go, playing a rebel cop name Kang Sung-joo, and Ji-hyo Song, playing a spunky traffic reporter who becomes unwittingly entangled in Kang's investigation, were veterans of the trade. More surprising, then, that "Some" is Go's first movie and Song's second (having been in the last "Whispering Corridors" installment, "Wishing Stairs")."

Me, myself, when I watched Ko Soo in "SOME", I wondered how old was he ? I was surprised that "SOME" is Ko Soo's old film, cause Ko Soo looked 10 years older than his age. He wasn't a cute ,good looking boy here, he acted as a middle age cop. Along Ko Soo is Song Ji Hyo (Goong, Frozen Flower), at the beginning I didn't realize it was her.

Ko Soo gets an award for his acting in "SOME", he did all the dangerous scenes by himself, without stunt's help. He indeed worked very hard for this film and I still don't understand why this film failed at the box office.I think the burden for Ko Soo is a little bit too hard especially his co-star is Song Ji Hyo who was a new comer. The case will be different if Song Ji Hyo casts in "Some" after "Goong". The cast didn't choose well although the film is good.

I am happy that Ko Soo finally gets over his trauma syndrome with the movie, like he acted recently in "Into The White Night" along  Song Ye Jin  and the most waited : "PSYCHIC" along with Kang Dong Won.

Here is some movie stills from "SOME" :