Daegu

Daegu Civic Stadium is a sports complex in Daegu, South Korea. Its main stadium is currently used mostly for football matches, but it is... occasionally used to host large-scale karaoke events. During the 1986 Asian Games and 1988 Summer Olympics, it hosted some football matches. The stadium has a capacity of max 30,000 people and was opened on 20 June 1948. After stadium was expansion and reconstruction in 1975, and was renovated and repaired on 8 September 2003.
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Son Ye-jin is a South Korean actress. Son Ye-jin has taken on a variety of roles in her career to date, propelling her to fame both in Korea and in... other Asian countries. She first appeared in a supporting role in Park Ki-hyung's film Secret Tears in 2000, and then went on to take the lead in TV dramas such as Delicious Proposal, Sun-hee and Jin-hee, and Daemang: Great Ambition. Her first high-profile role in cinema was in Im Kwon-taek's Chi-hwa-seon, which screened at Cannes and took home a Best Director award in 2002. The biggest success of her early career was in the subsequent films Lovers' Concerto and The Classic. Both were solid mid-level hits in Korea, and The Classic in particular—being a work of My Sassy Girl director Kwak Jae-yong -- received wide exposure in countries such as Hong Kong and China. Son further solidified her status as a "hallyu" star in 2003 by taking the lead in TV drama Summer Scent, a part of the hugely successful series of TV dramas including Autumn Love Story and Winter Sonata .
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Oh Dal-su is an actor.

Ahn Sung-ki is a South Korean actor. A Roman Catholic, he was born in Daegu, South Korea and grew up as a child actor - graduating Kyundong junior... high school, from which Cho Yong-pil also graduated - appearing in director Kim Ki-young's celebrated film The Housemaid . Starting from the 1980s, he appeared in nearly 100 movies. He was a graduate of the Vietnamese department of the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Because of his ability to speak several foreign languages, UNICEF appointed Ahn as a representative, and his image is often seen in advertisements on planes travelling to Korea. He acted twice as the President of Korea in the movies the Romantic President and Hanbando . He had military service after graduating from university as an artillery officer which he volunteered for. Go, shogi and Cue sports are well known as Ahn's hobby, but he confesses in the interview that he has not played cue sports; he also tells his profiles publicized about twenty years ago are still on the internet.
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Son Ye-jin is a South Korean actress. Son Ye-jin has taken on a variety of roles in her career to date, propelling her to fame both in Korea and in... other Asian countries. She first appeared in a supporting role in Park Ki-hyung's film Secret Tears in 2000, and then went on to take the lead in TV dramas such as Delicious Proposal, Sun-hee and Jin-hee, and Daemang: Great Ambition. Her first high-profile role in cinema was in Im Kwon-taek's Chi-hwa-seon, which screened at Cannes and took home a Best Director award in 2002. The biggest success of her early career was in the subsequent films Lovers' Concerto and The Classic. Both were solid mid-level hits in Korea, and The Classic in particular—being a work of My Sassy Girl director Kwak Jae-yong -- received wide exposure in countries such as Hong Kong and China. Son further solidified her status as a "hallyu" star in 2003 by taking the lead in TV drama Summer Scent, a part of the hugely successful series of TV dramas including Autumn Love Story and Winter Sonata .
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Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He was born in Daegu in 1969 and decided to become a filmmaker while in middle... school, perhaps influenced by an artistic family He majored in sociology in Yonsei University in the late 1980s and was a member of the film club there. He liked Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Imamura Shohei at the time. In the early 1990s, he completed a two-year program at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. While there, he made many 16mm short films and his graduation work Memory in the Frame and Incoherence was invited to screen at the Vancouver and Hong Kong international film festivals. In 1994, he directed the short film White People. His first feature film Barking Dogs Never Bite, part comedy and part cruel social satire, was released to low box office numbers. His next film, 2003's Memories of Murder, based on the true story of the country's first known serial murders, garnered both commercial success and critical acclaim.
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Kim Yeong-cheol is a South Korean actor. One of his earliest appearances was in White Smile . Other notable film roles include playing an underworld... boss in A Bittersweet Life .
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Oh Dal-su is an actor.

Tom Choi is an actor.

Ahn Sung-ki is a South Korean actor. Ahn, along with Lee Byung-hun, are the first Korean actors to imprint their hand and foot prints on the... forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. A Roman Catholic, he was born in Daegu, South Korea and grew up as a child actor - graduating Kyundong junior high school, from which Cho Yong-pil also graduated - appearing in director Kim Ki-young's celebrated film The Housemaid . Starting from the 1980s, he appeared in nearly 100 movies. He was a graduate of the Vietnamese department of the Hankuk University of Foreign Studies. Because of his ability to speak several foreign languages, UNICEF appointed Ahn as a representative, and his image is often seen in advertisements on planes travelling to Korea. He acted twice as the President of Korea in the movies the Romantic President and Hanbando . He had military service after graduating from university as an artillery officer which he volunteered for.
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