SHIM Eun-kyoung Picks Up Acting Prize for Japanese Film Debut

SHIM Eun-kyoung, star of Sunny (2011) and Miss Granny (2014), has picked up the Best New Actress Award from the Tama Cinema Forum, an annual film festival held in Japan. She earned the prize for her role in The Journalist, her first time appearing in a Japanes...

Director YOO Ha Has a New Project in the PIPELINE

A Dirty Carnival (2006) director YOO Ha is back in the director’s chair for the upcoming crime film Pipeline (literal title), which began filming in late July and will mark his eighth feature-length film. The project will feature young stars such as SEO In-guk...

IGNITION Wraps Production with Don LEE and PARK Jung-min

After kicking off filming on March 8, Ignition (translated title) brought its production to a close on June 27. From director CHOI Jeong-yeol, the film brings together actors Don LEE (aka MA Dong-seok), PARK Jung-min, JUNG Hae-in and YUM Jung-ah. Adapted from ...

KIM JI-YOUNG, BORN IN 1982 Begins Production with JUNG Yu-mi

The upcoming drama Kim Ji-young, Born in 1982 (literal title), featuring JUNG Yu-mi in the title role, began production on January 21. Based on an acclaimed feminist novel of the same name, the project quietly began filming in the city of Gwangmyeong in Gyeong...

LEE Kyoung-mi to Direct Netflix Original Series

JUNG Se-rang novel ‘School Nurse Ahn Eun Young’ will be remade as a Netflix Original series. Netflix has recently made official its intention to produce the series and confirmed that it will be helmed by LEE Kyoung-mi, the director of Crush And Blush (2008) an...

RYU Seung-ryong Kicks Off 2019 with Lunar New Year Comedy and Netflix Original Series

Kicking off the new year in style will be box-office draw RYU Seung-ryong, who is headlining both the Lunar New Year theatrical release Extreme Job and Kingdom, the first Korean Netflix Original series, both of which will premiere in January. A veteran charact...

PARK Jung-min and Don LEE Put the Keys in IGNITION

PARK Jung-min will play a leading role in the upcoming coming-of-age film Ignition (translated title), which will be adapted from the webtoon by CHO Geum-san. Joining PARK will be busy leading man Don LEE (aka MA Dong-seok) and JUNG Hae-in. The story will focu...

YEON Sang-ho Moving Forward with TRAIN TO BUSAN Sequel

Director YEON Sang-ho has announced that he is currently working on a follow-up to his enormously successful 2016 zombie action-drama TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016). Under the working title Peninsula, the sequel is currently being scripted and is aiming for a productio...

Korean Sci-fi HUNTING TIME Wraps 6-Month Shoot

Featuring actors LEE Je-hoon, CHOI Woo-shik, PARK Jung-min and AHN Jae-hong, the youth sci-fi thriller Hunting Time (working title) wrapped filming in Incheon on July 15th. Production took approximately six months and concluded with a large-scale protest scene...

PARK Jung-min and RYOO Seung-bum Get Head-to-Head for TAZZA 3

PARK Jung-min and RYOO Seung-bum are set to team up in the third installment of the hit crime series Tazza, which will be helmed by KWON Oh-kwang and produced by Sidus FNH. The Tazza series was launched with Tazza: The High Rollers by director CHOI Dong-hoon i...