[On further review it appears Park is sitting in the producer's chair for this one and not the director's, as we originally reported, a role we'll no doubt seeing him filling more frequently with his new production outfit. But still ... producing-Park is a whole lot better than no Park at all ...]

Mr. Park, you sly devil ... while the legion of devoted fans Korean director Park Chan-Wook made for himself with his trilogy of vengeance themed films have all been holding their breath awaiting his long rumored vampire film Bakjwi - which Park says will be a melodrama and not a horror and is apparently the Park titled currently listed as untitled at the HAF - and his big budget scifi collaboration with The Host's Bong Joon-Ho, it seems the Korean auteur has been quietly cooking up something else entirely.

Word is that on January 6th a new Park-produced screwball comedy titled Hongdangmu or Scarlet Blush began shooting. The film stars Gong Hyo Jin as a woman who strikes up an uneasy relationship with a young loner to help ward of the unwanted attentions of the girl's father. Release is slated for the first half of 2008.