The Jeonju International Film Festival’s annual Jeonju Cinema Project has announced its 2017 participants. Unlike previous years, all three of next year’s directors hail from Korea. The 2017 JCP films will be made by LEE Chang-jae, KIM Yang-hee and KIM Dae-hwan. Director LEE Chang-jae, known for his documentaries On The Road (2013) and The Hospice (2014) which screened at Jeonju, will make N Proje...

Two Korean productions, The Attorney and The Suspect, have brought the country’s box office to a triumphant close. According to the Korean Film Council (KOFIC), The Attorney, with actor SONG Kang-ho of Snowpiercer and The Face Reader, and The Suspect, directed by WON Shin-yun of 7 Days (2007), scored first and second place on the box office chart. Based on a story of the late president ROH Moo-hyu...

It seems as though nothing can to stop The Face Reader’s ride. According to the combined ticket sales digital network by KOFIC, this period dramafeaturing SONG Kang-ho and LEE Jung-jae’s has kept the number one place at the box office with 7.29 million viewers as of September 25th since its release on the 11th. It is the third feature by HAN Jae-rim, who previously directed Rules of Dating (2005) ...

It is Snowpiercer’s world, and we are just living in it. BONG Joon-ho’s latest work reached four million domestic viewers as of 16:00 August 6th, as announced by CJ Entertainment. This record was established within seven days of its release on the 31st of last month. The record of the fastest to reach four million viewers used to be eight days, and was previously held by Transformers 3 (2011), The...