Action Noir GANGNEUNG with JANG Hyuk and YU Oh-seong Wraps Production

Starring JANG Hyuk and YU Oh-seong, the upcoming gangster thriller Gangneung (working title) completed production on December 6. The action noir will mark the directorial debut of YOON Young-bin. As suggested by the title, the film is set in Gangneung, a coast...

THE GOLDEN HOLIDAY Delays Release Amid New Wave COVID-19 Cases in Seoul

After months of steady increases at the box office as viewers returned to cinemas, several new clusters of COVID-19 cases have once more put distributors on alert. On Sunday, August 16, Showbox announced that it would be delaying the release of its crime-comed...

A TAXI DRIVER Drives Off with Audience and Jury Prizes in Florence

The 16th edition of the Florence Korean Film Fest bestowed both its top audience award and jury prize to last year’s smash hit political drama A Taxi Driver. Taking the runner-up and third place audience prizes were the investigative thriller Ordinary Person a...

LA Mi-ran Takes on First Lead Role in GIRL COPS

Top character actress LA Mi-ran has signed on to the crime comedy Girl Cops (Korean title), which will mark her first leading role on the big screen. The film will make the sophomore directing outing of JUNG Da-won The project will follow an ex-detective who b...

CHO Jin-woong and SON Hyun-ju Suit Up for THE CLOWNS

Joseon Era Film Began Production March 31 CHO Jin-woong and SON Hyun-ju are teaming up once more on the period film The Clowns (working title), which began filming on March 31. Also featuring PARK Hee-soon, GO Chang-seok, KIM Seul-ki, YOON Park and KIM Min-suk...

CHOI Gwi-hwa Joins Latest Period Film from Director of THE GRAND HEIST

Rising star CHOI Gwi-hwa has joined the period drama Jo-seon-gong-gal-pe (Korean title). Stars SON Hyun-ju and CHI Jin-woong have already signed on to appear in the latest work from director KIM Joo-ho, which takes place in the Joseon Dynasty and focuses on a ...

KWAK Do-won Is Confirmed for Philippines-set Action Film PACKAGE

Actor KWAK Do-won has created his own management company. The actor left C-JeS Entertainment, an agency he has been with for the past 4 years, and after spending some time doing research, ended up founding one-man agency, Oreum Entertainment. KWAK has already ...

Hawaii Film Festival Hails 14 from Korea

One of the top destinations in the world for Korean films, the Hawaii International Film Festival returns this month and includes a 14-strong delegation from the Far Eastern filmmaking powerhouse. The 37th HIFF kicked off on November 2nd. The bulk of this year...

Excellence in Action Cinema Award for JUNG Byung-gil in New York

Director JUNG Byung-gil will be traveling to New York this week to collect the Daniel E. Craft Award for Excellence in Action Cinema for his latest work The Villainess, which serves as the closing film of this year’s 16th edition of the New York Asian Film Fes...

SON Hyun-ju Crowned Best Actor at Moscow Film Festival

Recent Korean investigative drama ORDINARY PERSON has returned home triumphant from the 39th Moscow International Film Festival where it picked up the NETPAC Award for Best Asian Feature, as well as the Best Actor award for its star SON Hyun-ju. A veteran char...