Jeonju Film Festival to Stage Taeheung Film Company Retrospective

Chihwhaseon (2002)In addition to hosting the premieres of independent works from Korea and around the world, this year’s upcoming 23rd edition of the Jeonju International Film Festival will also stage an eight-film retrospective dedicated to the influential Ta...

THE HORSE THIEVES and MOONLIT WINTER to Bookend 24th Busan Film Festival

The Busan International Film Festival will descend on Korea’s second largest city once more next month for its 24th edition, which will open with the film The Horse Thieves. Roads of Time, co-directed by Kazhakstan’s Yerlan NURMUKHAMBETOV and Japan’s Lisa TAKE...

Ulju Mountain Film Festival Names BAE Chang-ho as Festival Director

Film director BAE Chang-ho has been appointed as the new festival director of the Ulju Mountain Film Festival (UMFF). The announcement was made during an extraordinary general meeting held on April 9. Director BAE has been active in the Korean film industry si...

Christoph Terhechte, head of Berlinale’s Forum Section, Receives Korean Cinema Award

The 22nd Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) announced the recipient of its Korean Cinema Award. “BIFF has selected Christoph Terhechte, the head of the Berlin International Film Festival’s Forum section, as the recipient of this year’s Korean Cinema Awar...

ZHANG Lu’s A Quiet Dream to Open 21st BIFF

2016 Busan Program Features Over 300 Films In the lead up to its 2016 edition, the Busan International Film Festival has put together an impressive lineup for its 21st annual event. A total of 301 films from 69 countries will be screened at the festival, incl...

Busan to Stage LEE Doo-yong Retrospective

Showcase for Classic Genre Filmmaker at 21st BIFF The focus of this year’s Korean Cinema Retrospective at the 21st edition of the Busan International Film Festival will be filmmaker LEE Doo-yong. Forging a body of work that saw him hop across several differen...

KOFA Issues New Family Film DVD Boxset

Co-Released by Ministry of Culture, Sports and TourismThe Korean Film Archive (KOFA), hot off its recent bounty of news concerning therestoration of The Aimless Bullet (1961), their first Blu-Ray releases (The Housemaid [1960] and March of Fools [1975]) and th...

“PARK Pulled Off Many Extraordinary Feats for Korean Film World”

Memorial Service for PARK Held A memorial service for director PARK Chul-soo who died on February 19th was held in Cinema Theque KOFA at the Korean Film Archive on March 14th. The service was held with a screening of the film A Journey with Korean Masters fo...