HEO Myeong-hoeng, Action Choreographer of ASURA: THE CITY OF MADNESS and MASTER

In Korea, if there have been three major changes in the field of film production to take note of since the turn of the century, these would be the launching of the new concept of production design, the advancement in computer graphics, and the settlement of ac...

LEE Sung-jae, Director of Cinematography of CONFIDENTIAL ASSIGNMENT

LEE Sung-jae has recently proved once more with his very powerful car chase scene in Confidential Assignment why today he is definitely among the most popular directors of cinematography in Korean film industry. LEE has been in close collaboration with NA Hong...

KOFA Introduces Korean Classics in Berlin

Among the Korean films on show in Berlin this year were a pair of classics which received special screenings in the Forum section. YU Hyun-mok’s An Aimless Bullet (1961), often cited as the best Korean film of all time, and LEE Doo-yong’s The Last Witness (198...

Hong Sangsoo and KIM Min-hee Discuss Latest Collaboration in Berlin

Prior to the world premiere of Hong Sangsoo’s On the Beach at Night Alone in competition at the Berlin International Film Festival, a press conference was held with the director, his star KIM Min-hee, film critic and co-star Mark Peranson (a film critic and pr...

Busan Film Commission Location Service Section Chief, KIM Jong-hyun

It was recently announced that Black Panther will be filming on location in Busan, which is the second time for a Marvel-meets-Korea venture ever since Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) covered various places in Seoul. For more than a decade, the city of ‘Busan’ ...

KWAK Tae-yong, the VFX Supervisor of TRAIN TO BUSAN and ASSASSINATION

KWAK Tae-yong always describes his work as ‘technical art’ as it covers a vast scope of work which goes beyond simple special effect makeup such as attaching prosthetic material to the face, to tasks of creating dummies and special props and even animatronics....

KIM Jae-min, Executive Vice President of CONTENTS PANDA

A Man who Sells Korean Films to the Entire World Despite having been on the scene for only a few years, CONTENTS PANDA, the distribution wing of Korean film studio Next Entertainment World (NEW), has become one of the major players in the industry and is makin...

CHO Ui-seok, Director of MASTER

Among the most important trends of Korean films in recent years is the crime movie that reveals the secret of Korean society. Films criticizing Korean society such as RYOO Seung-wan's Veteran (2015), WOO Min-ho's Inside Men (2015), YEON Sang-ho's T...

The Director of BEATEN BLACK AND BLUE, KIM Soo-hyun

Filmmaker KIM Soo-hyun looks at the world from the point-of-view of an outsider. After working as an assistant to filmmaker JANG Sun-woo, he made his directorial debut with So Cute (2004), a unique exploration of the issues caused by desire in an utterly dysfu...

CHO Chang-ho, Director of Another Way

Filmmaker CHO Chang-ho, who made his directorial debut in 2006 with The Peter Pan Formula followed by his 2010 film Lovers Vanished, returned with his third feature Another Way in 7 years. CHO, who worked as assistant to directors such as YIM Soon-rye, KIM Ki-...