![]() Gisaeng were female artists who sang, danced and played musical instruments to entertain yangban, or the gentry class during the Joseong Dynasty (1392-1910), the last kingdom of Korea, and for the Japanese ruling class during the Japanese colonial period (1910-1945). It was also a period when early forms of popular music, the origins, of today's K-pop began to appear.Ī new film "Love, Lies," which will be released on April 13, explores the lives, loves and ambitions of the last remaining gisaeng in the early 1940s who wanted to become pop singers. The 1940s were among the most turbulent decades in Korean history, especially during the years before liberation from Japanese colonial rule in 1945. Chun Woo-hee, from left, Yoo Yeon-seok and Han Hyo-joo in "Love, Lies" / Courtesy of Lotte Entertainment
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