The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) will return next month and opening this year’s 24th edition on July 9 will be Whispering Corridors: The Humming, the sixth entry in the long-running Korean horror franchise. This summer’s BIFAN will be a hybrid event mixing physical screenings and an online showcase. Next month’s festival will feature 174 films from 42 countries, including ...

Top film directors and stars have assembled for sci-fi anthology series SF8. The eight-part limited series is a joint project between the Directors Guild of Korea and the streaming platform Wavve and will begin airing on broadcast network MBC in August of this year. Among the big names in front of the camera are MOON So-ri (Juror 8, 2019), LEE Yoo-young (I Am Home, 2019), LEE Dong-hwi (My First Cl...

KIM Min-hee has picked up the AISGE Award for Best Actress from the 55th Gijón International Film Festival in Northern Spain for her part in HONG Sangsoo’s On the Beach at Night Alone. The win is KIM’s second for the role, after she won the Silver Bear for Best Actress at the Berlin International Film Festival earlier this year. On the Beach at Night Alone features KIM as an actress who escapes th...

A new Korean thriller has ascended to the top of the charts as local films found their footing in the wake of a short period of Hollywood dominance. In all, some 1.9 million viewers visited theaters, 57% of which for domestic fare, during the late October weekend. Following Hide and Seek (2013) and The Chronicles of Evil, SON Hyun-ju shows off his box office mettle once again in new thriller The ...

Running Man, the first Korean film to be majority financed by Fox International Productions, got off to a decent start at the Korean box office with 1.1 million admissions in its first two weeks on release. Directed by CHO Dong-oh (The Restless), and starring the popular SHIN Ha-kyun (The Front Line), the film tells the story of a struggling single father named Jong-woo who gets accidentally ca...

A new Korean film sits atop the box office in the relatively quiet period of late March. Debut director ROH Deok’s Very Ordinary Couple, which is billed as a romantic comedy, but which might also be described simply as a relationship drama, made an impressive start with just short of 1.4 million admissions in two weeks. The film stars KIM Min-hee and LEE Min-ki as a recently separated couple who, ...