A quartet of Korean films will screen at next month’s BFI London Film Festival. Hong Sangsoo returns with On the Beach at Night Alone, one of his three titles this year, while Korea will also be represented by the Korean thriller MEMOIR OF A MURDERER and two documentaries, Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno and Becoming Who I Was. Hong’s 19th film, On the Beach at Night Alone premiered at the Berlin In...

Local thrillers tend to dominate outside of holiday periods in the fall and this year is proving to be no exception as a serial killer chiller reclaimed the top spot for the domestic industry, which clocked a 57% market share, while a Hollywood sensation underperformed in Korea as admissions rose slightly to 2.11 million. Following his 2013 hit The Suspect, director WON Shin-yun is back on top of ...