Actors Lee Youngae & Kim Sangkyung, Appointed as Jury Members for the Actor & Actress of the Year Award at the 27th Busan International Film Festival

The 27th Busan International Film Festival, which will be held for 10 days from October 5 to 14, has appointed actor Lee Youngae and actor Kim Sangkyung as jury members for the ‘Actor & Actress of the Year Award.’ The Actor & Actress of the Year Award ...

Lee Jehoon, Park Jungmin, Choi Heeseo, and Son Seok-koo are Challenging Original Contents with Korean OTT

Watcha, an online streaming service in Korea, starts producing original series with actors, including Lee Jehoon , Park Jungmin, Son Seok-koo, and Choi Heeseo.On April 20th, Watcha announced that it will co-produce the ‘Unframed’ project with Hardcut, a produc...

CHOI Hee-seo Teams Up with Joe ODAGIRI and IKEMATSU Sosuke for ANGEL OF ASIA

Actress CHOI Hee-seo (aka Moon CHOI) recently teamed up with Japanese stars Joe ODAGIRI and IKEMATSU Sosuke for the film Angel of Asia (translated title). From Japanese filmmaker ISHII Yuya, the film was shot entirely in Korea over February and March of this y...

HWANG Jung-min and LEE Jung-jae to DELIVER US FROM EVIL

Stars HWANG Jung-min, LEE Jung-jae, PARK Jung-min and CHOI Hee-seo have lined up to appear in the upcoming action-drama Deliver Us from Evil (translated title). The film is the latest from Office (2015) director HONG Won-chan and kicked off production on Septe...

1987 Takes Grand Prize at Golden Cinema Film Festival

The Golden Cinema Film Festival Awards, an annual event put on by the Korean Society of Cinematographers (KSC), recently held its 38th edition and awarded its top prize to the political drama 1987: When the Day Comes (2017) from director JANG Joon-hwan, who al...

CLEAN UP and SAVAGE Earn Top Busan Film Fest Awards

Korean social drama Clean Up, a feature presentation of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) from debut director KWON Man-gi, and Chinese thriller Savage by CUI Si Wei have picked up the New Currents Awards from this year’s 23rd Busan International Film Fest...

HAN Ka-ram’s OUR BODY to Premiere at TIFF

HAN Ka-ram’s debut film Our Body will have its world premiere this month in the ‘Discovery’ section of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). A feature project of the Korean Academy of Film Arts(KAFA), the film features rising star CHOI Hee-seo in the...

1987 Tops Korean Film Reporters Association Awards

JANG Joon-hwan Takes Best Director at 9th ‘Film Awards of the Year’ Political drama 1987: When the Day Comes took the top prize at the 9th edition of the Korean Film Reporters Association Awards. In addition, the film also took the prize for Best Director, whi...

ANARCHIST FROM COLONY to Open Osaka Asian Film Festival

LEE Joon-ik’s most recent film Anarchist from Colony, a period drama with LEE Je-hoon and CHOI Hee-seo, has been selected as the opening film of this year’s 13th Osaka Asian Film Festival. The film will kick off the festival on March 9th. Set in Tokyo in 1923,...

THE DAY AFTER Scores Asian Film Awards Nods for Film, Director and Actress

Hong Sangsoo’s The Day After(2017),LEE Joon-ik’s Anarchist from Colony(2017) and KIM Yong-hwa’s Along with the Gods: The Two Worlds have all received a trio of nominations for the upcoming 12th Asian Film Awards, which will take place in Macao on March 17th. T...