The Witch: Part 2. The Other One, Nominated in the International Competition Section at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival

Director Park Hoonjung's The Witch: Part 2. The Other One has entered the international competition section at the 40th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival. In addition, Director Park Daemin's Special Delivery and Director Yoon Youngbin'...

Director Kim Hanmin’s HANSAN: RISING DRAGON, Pre-sold to 99 Countries around the World

The film, HANSAN: RISING DRAGON, was pre-sold to 99 countries, including North America and France, along with major Asian countries such as Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Vietnam. It is encouraging that the historical drama genre films about Korea's ...

KIM Yun-seok to Play Admiral YI Sun-shin in KIM Han-min’s NORYANG

Director KIM Han-min has rounded up a formidable cast for Noryang (Korean title), the final entry in his trilogy on the legendary Korean admiral YI Sun-shin, which started with Roaring Currents (2014), the most successful Korean film of all time. KIM Yun-seok ...

PARK Hae-il to Play Admiral Yi Sun-sin in HANSAN

Roaring Currents (2014) director KIM Han-min is returning to the legendary historical figure Admiral LEE Sun-shin for his next film, the period naval epic Hansan: Rise of the Dragon (translated title). PARK Hae-il will play the Admiral in the film, while BYUN ...

CHANG Mi-hee Was Commissioned to Be a Vice Chairwoman of BiFan’s Organizing Committee

The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan) elected actress CHANG Mi-hee as Vice Chairwoman of the Organizing Committee at the 7th regular general meeting of the organizing committee on February 22nd. Turning 21st edition this year, BiFan has bui...

THE WAILING Scores Top Honors in BiFan

20th Edition Winds Down to a Close NA Hong-jin’s critically-acclaimed THE WAILING won both the Best of Bucheon and NH Audience Award at the 20th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BiFan), which held its closing ceremony on Friday, July 29th. Due t...

LEE Byung-hun, YOO Ah-in and HAN Hyo-joo Take Top Star Awards

Korea Film Actors’ Association Hands Out 2015 Prizes The Korea Film Actors’ Association held its 2015 awards at the Grand Hyatt Seoul on Tuesday, December 29th. This year’s Top Star Awards recipients were LEE Byung-hun, who recently staged a comeback when his...

Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival Kicks off in Seoul

Former Festival Winners Include Berlinale-winning director NA Young-kil (Hosanna)RYOO Seung-wan and MOON So-ri-directed Short Films to Receive Special Screenings The 14th Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival opened Thursday (25 June) at Megabox with opening scr...

Korean Action Fare on Show at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image

Five Local Titles over Three Days in the Big Apple Tomorrow (April 3rd), the Museum of the Moving Image in New York will stage ‘Action Korea’, a showcase of action cinema from Korea. Five titles will screen until April 5th in the event which is co-presented w...

KIM Han-min to Follow ROARING CURRENTS with BONGOH TOWN BATTLE

Another War Film for Period Hitmaker   KIM Han-min, the man behind last year’s history-making hit Roaring Currents, which sailed to the top of the all time Korean box office chart when a staggering 17.61 million viewers (equal to one in three residents in...