SKorean director offers Kim free 'blockbuster' film

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2007

SEOUL (AFP) — A South Korean movie director has offered his "blockbuster" film to North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il for free as a gift to mark an impending summit -- if children in the Stalinist state can see it too.

Shim Hyung-Rae, director of "Dragon Wars: D-War," said he was willing to make the fantasy film one of the gifts to be taken by South Korean President Roh Moo-Hyun to Pyongyang next month for a summit with reported cinema buff Kim.

"I will send the film to the North for free but I hope Chairman Kim Jong-Il should not have it to himself but allow North Korean children to see it as well," Shim was quoted as saying in Moneytoday, an Internet news portal.

"Dragon Wars" has attracted more than eight million viewers in South Korea since its release...

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