https://www.scmp.com/rss/310026/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Park Chan-wook knows he has a reputation for shock. The South Korean filmmaker vaulted to international attention in 2003 with Oldboy, a lurid, exhilarating revenge drama about a man in­explicably held prisoner by an unknown captor for 15 years, then just as inexplicably set loose. His subsequent work has ranged from a romantic comedy set in a psychiatric ward (I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK; 2006), to a perverse family portrait (his first and so far only English-language film, Stoker; 2013), to... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3206532/oldboy-decision-leave-director-park-chan-wook-bts-being-blacklisted-and-creating-female-characters?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/long-reads/article/3206532/oldboy-decision-leave-director-park-chan-wook-bts-being-blacklisted-and-creating-female-characters?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Jan 2023 23:45:08 +0000 Every summer, Wellington Chen, director of New York Chinatown's Business Improvement District, dispatches interns to document all the businesses that have opened or closed in his neighbourhood. He has noticed an overwhelming number of empty storefronts being filled by independent pharmacies. At the same time, senior and adult day-care centres have been proliferating. Chen says it's a subtle indication of a trend: as so many immigrants' children have left for college and never returned, and as... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1864847/five-reasons-new-yorks-chinatown-surviving-gentrification?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1864847/five-reasons-new-yorks-chinatown-surviving-gentrification?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 07 Oct 2015 12:47:06 +0000 Lucky Blue, who is not a racehorse, as his name might suggest, but rather a 1.9-metre, 17-year-old model, is learning how to dance. Basic moves. The grapevine. A decent step-touch. "Just remember when you're step-touching to lead with this." Here, Danny, the male dance instructor leading this private lesson at a small Los Angeles studio, pats the side of Lucky's butt. This makes Lucky blush. He buries his hands in the pockets of his skintight black jeans. Today's lesson is worst-case-scenario... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1852692/lucky-blue-mormon-model-17-chicken-feet-his-beautiful-family?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1852692/lucky-blue-mormon-model-17-chicken-feet-his-beautiful-family?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Aug 2015 04:00:00 +0000 ''You guys think this is a joke. This is not a joke." Dennis Rodman is seated at the dais in a conference room at New York's Soho Grand Hotel behind a bronze bust of himself. Next to him is a smartly dressed Irish bookmaker named Paddy Power. On Power's other side is Daniel Pinkston, a North Korea expert with the International Crisis Group, a pro-Nato think tank that focuses on war and violent conflict. Before them is a sea of reporters and cameras. Despite Rodman's admonishment, a television... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1322715/how-dennis-and-kims-bromance-causing-diplomatic-conundrum?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/article/1322715/how-dennis-and-kims-bromance-causing-diplomatic-conundrum?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 05 Oct 2013 16:00:00 +0000