Rising star HAN Hyo-joo has chosen Hae-eo-hwa as her next project. The busy actress already has two projects lined up for release next year but that hasn’t stopped her from signing on for the next film by director PARK Heung-sik.

 

Set in the 1930s, when Korea was a Japanese colony, Hae-eo-hwa will feature HAN as a gisaeng (the Korean term for courtesan) who quickly makes a name for herself with her beauty and artistic talent. The film’s Korean title is a term that refers to both a gisaeng and a beautiful woman.

 

Following her 2003 discovery in a beauty pageant, HAN worked both on the big and small screen but since 2011 she has focused exclusively on films, forging an impressive filmography with credits such as Masquerade (2012) and Cold Eyes. This year she made her Japanese film debut in Miracle: Devil Claus' Love and Magic while she recently wrapped the music biopic C’est Si Bon and is currently filming the high concept romcom Beauty Inside, both of which will hit screens next year.

 

Meanwhile, director PARK, who is known for the films I Wish I Had a Wife (2001) and My Mother, the Mermaid (2004), recently completed the period epic Memories of the Sword, starring JEON Do-yeon and LEE Byung-hun. The film will be released next year.

 

Hae-wo-hwa will be financed and distributed by Lotte Entertainment, who also worked with PARK on Memories of the Sword. Following the completion of casting, filming is expected to begin in April of next year.