Singer and Actress Sulli Passes Away Aged 25

Singer and actress CHOI Jin-ri, better known by her pseudonym Sulli, passed away at the age of 25 on October 14. The former member of the K-pop outfit f(x) and star of The Pirates (2014) and Real (2017) was found unconscious by her manager in her home in Seong...

PARK Ha-seon Returns in Indie Drama CONFESSION

Actor PARK Ha-seon’s next work will be as the lead in the upcoming indie film Confession (translated title). The film will be the sophomore work of Overman (2015) director SEO Eun-young. The performer will play a social welfare worker who becomes caught up at ...

KIM Jung-kwon to Direct DON’T WE ALL LOVE DRESSES, a Korean-Chinese Co-production

A Melodrama with Dance KIM Jung-kwon, a melodrama specialist, is proceeding with directing Don’t We All Love Dresses (裙下之臣) in China. It is a Korean Chinese co-production where China undertakes production and Korea provides the director, script and actors. K...

Korean Animation TIMING Schedules December Releases

1st Animation Based on the Work of KANG Full MIN Kyung-jo’s animation Timing, a work five years in the making which debuted at the Busan International Film Festival in the Korean Cinema Today: Panorama program in 2014, has scheduled a local release for Decemb...

KANG Full’s Web Cartoon THE WITCH to Get Screen Adaptations in Korea and China

The First Project That Is Simultaneously Adapted in Two Countries Korean web cartoonist KANG Full’s The Witch will get film adaptations in Korea and China. Directed by KIM Dae-woo, whose previous titles include period dramas such as the Vietnam-set Obsessed,...

CHA Tae-hyun Signs on for New Romcom

Popular Funnyman to Lead BECAUSE I LOVE YOU   Returning once again to the genre that made him a star, funny man CHA Tae-hyun has signed on for the leading role in Because I Love You (literal title), a new romantic comedy which will mark the sophomore outi...

Critics’ Week Takes COIN LOCKER GIRL

KIM Hye-soo/KIM Go-eun Head to Cannes Following last week’s official selection announcement for the Cannes Film Festival, the 54th International Critics’ Week (Semaine de la Critique), an event that runs alongside Cannes, revealed its lineup yesterday, focusi...

KIM Hye-soo and KIM Go-eun Team Up for COIN LOCKER GIRL

Female-Driven Thriller from Debut Helmer HAN Jun-heeVeteran actress KIM Hye-soo has been cast and young starlet KIM Go-eun is almost confirmed for Coin Locker Girl, a new drama-thriller based on a 1980s Japanese novel. A baby is abandoned in a train station co...