Compatriot News
Second generation Korean; looking for Korean children to star in ‘Children of War’
Arnold Chun (Korean name: Chun Hyo-gong, age 48), a second-generation Korean American who works as an actor and director in Hollywood, recently began producing a short film on the Korean War. According to the Korean American society, Chun has decided to produce a film called “Children of War” that looks into the Korean War from a child’s perspective and is publicly recruiting children of Korean descent to appear in the film. Chun is accepting applications until the end of April for auditions from Korean children aged 5 to 10 who will play the four roles of Mi-suk, Yeong-il, Seong-mo and Jeong-min. Children must be able to speak Korean. Filming is expected to take place sometime this summer. Tony Eldridge, who has worked on Hollywood films, such as “The Equalizer” and “The Naked True,” will join the project as executive producer. It all started 12 years ago when Chun heard the story of his father, Andrew Chun (Korean name: Chun Young-il), a Korean War survivor, and has been working on turning the narrative into a movie. Chun, who is from Boston, Massachusetts, majored in history at the University of California, Irvine (UC Irvine). As an actor, he has appeared in “Kidding,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “Hawaii Five-0” and “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia.” The Amazon original series “The Man in the High Castle,” in which he participated, won an Emmy Award, one of the four major awards ceremonies in the U.S. As a film producer, he produced “Eli’s Liquor Store,” which tells the story of a black man who runs a liquor store in Los Angeles’ Koreatown in 2007 and won the Best Short Film Award at the Harlem International Film Festival the following year.