Decision to Leave Won 6 Awards Including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, etc. at the 43rd Blue Dragon Film Awards

The 43rd Blue Dragon Film Awards was held at KBS Hall in Yeouido Seoul on November 25. The Blue Dragon Film Awards is one of the top 3 Korean film awards, along with the Grand Bell Awards and Baeksang Arts Awards.Decision to Leave, which was nominated in 13 ca...

Fantasy SF WONDERLAND in Talks for Partial Netflix Launch

Following the recent rumors that the SF blockbuster Space Sweepers has been in talks for a Netflix launch, news sites light up again when reports surfaced that Wonderland (literal title) another big-budget Korean sci-fi, was also mulling a move to the global s...

PARK Chan-wook’s DECISION TO LEAVE Begins Shoot This Month

TANG Wei and PARK Hae-il Headline Latest from Korean Maestro Following his recent John LE CARRE adaptation The Little Drummer Girl for the BBC, master Korean filmmaker PARK Chan-wook is about to return to set for a new Korean project. Decision to Leave, which...

24th BIFAN to Open with WHISPERING CORRIDORS 6

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 ...

JUNG Yu-mi May Join TANG Wei, CHOI Woo-shik, PARK Bo-gum and BAE Suzy in WONDERLAND

An all-star cast is gathering for the sci-fi melodrama Wonderland (literal title), the long-awaited return of Late Autumn (2011) director KIM Tae-yong. JUNG Yu-mi is reportedly in talk to join a cast that already includes Chinese superstar TANG Wei, CHOI Woo-s...

THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL Wins Best Cinematography at BAFTA TV Craft Awards

Veteran cinematographer KIM Wu-hyeong was awarded the Best Cinematography Prize from the BAFTA TV Craft Awards for his work on PARK Chan-wook’s The Little Drummer Girl mini-series for the BBC. Director PARK’s TV debut, the six-part series The Little Drummer Gi...

KCCNY Celebrates 40 Years with Special Film Events

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Korean Cultural Center New York (KCCNY) is putting on a series of cultural events throughout 2019, which include a pair of events related to Korean cinema. This month, Along with the Gods producer WON Dong-yeon visited Ne...

KIM Tae-yong and IM Kwon-taek to Return to Berlinale

KIM Tae-yong’s Kokdu: A Story of Guardian Angels(2018) and IM Kwon-taek’s 1980 classic Mismatched Nose (here under the title Jjak-ko, 1983) have joined the lineup of next month’s 69th Berlin International Film Festival. Both directors have participated in the ...

LEE Myung-se Appointed as Executive Chairman of Green Film Festival in Seoul

LEE Myung-se has been appointed as the new Festival Chairman of the Green Film Festival in Seoul (GFISS) ahead of its 15th edition. This year’s GFFIS will take place from May 17 to 23. The appointment makes LEE the first filmmaker to lead the festival since it...

JANG Dong-gun Joins Hyun-bin in Period Zombie Film

Actor JANG Dong-gun will join superstar Hyun-bin in the upcoming period zombie film Chang-gwol (a Korean word which is homonym for both ‘rage’ and ‘outbreak’) from Confidential Assignment director KIM Sung-hoon. Hyun-bin will play Lee Chung, a talented swordsm...