YOO Ah-in and PARK Shin-hye Sign on to #ALONE

YOO Ah-in and PARK Shin-hye are set to appear on screen together for the first time in the upcoming infection thriller #Alone(working title). The film, which focuses on a city that descends into chaos during the sudden spread of an unidentified virus, will mar...

GONG Yoo to Return in Sci-fi Action Drama SEO BOK

Four years after conquering the box office charts with both TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016) and The Age of Shadows (2016), superstar GONG Yoo is set to mark his return to the silver screen with Seo Bok (working title). The film will be the latest work from Architecture ...

RYU Jun-yeol and YOO Hae-jin Prepare for BATTLE

The period combat drama Battle (translated title) from director WON Shin-yun kicked off production on August 16. The Colonial Era film sees former A Taxi Driver (2017) co-stars RYU Jun-yeol and YOO Hae-jin share top billing. Set against the Battle of Bongodong...

MEMOIR OF A MURDERER Picks Up Prizes in Beaune and Brussels

Korean serial killer thriller MEMOIR OF A MURDERER from director WON Shin-Yeon has become a festival hit in Europe, where it recently picked up prizes from two events in April. The film was awarded the Jury Prize at the 10th International Thriller Film Festiva...

Florence Korean Film Fest to Stage HA Jung-woo Retrospective and Masterclass

The 16th Florence Korean Film Fest will open its doors on March 22 and screen 25 features and several shorts until it concludes on March 30. This year’s edition will also include a retrospective on films featuring popular star HA Jung-woo. HWANG Dong-hyuk will...

PARK Hee-soon Confirmed for LEGEND

Action Film Actor PARK Hee-soon has been confirmed for the upcoming action film Legend (working title). PARK’s management agency King Kong by StarshipEntertainment announced that the actor had signed on to appear in the movie. Legendis set in the near future w...

PARK Bo-young and KIM Young-kwang Commit to YOUR WEDDING

PARK Bo-young and KIM Young-kwang are set to co-star in the upcoming romantic drama Your Wedding (translated title). In the film’s plot, Soo-jeong (KIM) receives a wedding invitation from his first love Seung-hee (PARK). The film chronicles the 10-year relatio...

Hong Kong’s Festive Korea to Screen 19 Films

Festive Korea will kick off its 7th edition in Hong Kong on October 5th and run until November 30th, during which it will screen 19 films from Korea, ranging from indie documentaries to commercial blockbusters. The festival’s cinema section is broken down into...

Fantastic Fest Adds THE MERCILESS and VIP

The 13th edition of Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX, the leading genre film event in the United States, will welcome two new Korean thrillers when it opens its doors on September 21st. Both BYUN Sung-hun’s The Merciless and PARK Hoon-jong’s V.I.P. will screen at ...

MASTER, MEMOIR and SHADOWS Book Dates in Japan

A trio of Korean thrillers, KIM Jee-woon’s The Age of Shadows (2016) CHO Ui-seok’s Master (2016) and WON Shin-yun’s MEMOIR OF A MURDERER, are all headed to Japanese theaters in the coming months. Both titles that feature LEE Byung-hun will be released in Novem...