KIM Bora’s sensational debut film, the indie drama House of Hummingbird (2018), has come away with the top prize, the Best Film Award, from this year’s 6th Korean Film Producers Association Awards. BONG Joon-ho was awarded Best Director for his comedy-drama satire Parasite, which also earned prizes for Best Lighting and Best Production Design. In the acting fields, Best Actor went to JUNG Woo-sung...

Veteran star KIM Yun-seok’s directorial debut Another Child has picked up the NETPAC Award at this year’s 39th Hawaii International Film Festival (HIFF). The film concerns a teenage girl (KIM Hye-jun) who discovers that her father is having an affair with the mother (KIM So-jin) of her classmate (PARK Se-jin). The father, played by KIM Yun-seok, runs away from the situation while his wife (YUM Jun...

BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite was the big winner at the issue of this year’s 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards, where it picked up five prizes, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (JO Yeo-jeong), Best Supporting Actress (LEE Jung-eun) and Best Production Design (LEE Ha-joon). JUNG Woo-sung was crowned Best Actor for his performance in the trial drama Innocent Witness while JO Woo-jin walked off ...

Following two weeks of unprecedented blockbuster mania, courtesy of Marvel’s epic finale Avengers: Endgame, the box office has receded to normal spring levels, with 1.95 million tickets sold over the last frame. The local industry also found its way back into the mix, clinching 43% of sales over the weekend. Following last week’s strong hold, demand has finally dropped off for Avengers: Endgame, w...

Though sales slowed considerably from the previous week, this past weekend remained a highly lucrative window at the Korean box office, with 3.12 million tickets sold. With Marvel’s Phase 3 culmination continuing to lord over the charts as it scaled the records book, local films were kept down to just under 20% of the market. After setting several new industry records during its supersized debut, ...

With the arrival of the most anticipated film in history, box office admissions rose a staggering 500% week-on-week as Marvel’s blockbuster to end all blockbusters sucked up all the air out of the market, accounting for 92.8% of the 4.51 million tickets sold over the frame. Among the casualties were local films, which only accounted for 6.8% of the total. Building on years of fandom and its 21 pre...