Chae Kyoungsun Triumphs at 26th Art Directors Guild Awards

Production designer Chae Kyoungsun triumphed in the One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series category at this year’s 26th Art Directors Guild Awards for her work on the global smash Squid Game.Chae beat out nominees for major American series such as Successi...

Lim Yoona and Kim Seonho Rendez-vous for TWO O’CLOCK DATE

EXIT Director Returns with Romantic ComedyLim Yoona and Kim Seonho are set to star in the upcoming romantic comedy Two O’Clock Date (translated title). The project will see Lim re-team with her EXIT (2019) director Lee Sanggeun.The romcom will focus on two apa...

PARASITE Leads Asian Film Awards with 10 Nominations

The Asian Film Awards are returning for their 14th edition this year, which will take place for the first time in Busan, South Korea, after the previous 13 editions took place in either Hong Kong or Macao. Leading the nominations scorecard is BONG Joon-ho’s gl...

EXIT Presented White Mulberry Award from Udine

LEE Sang-geun’s hit disaster action-comedy EXIT (2019) received the White Mulberry Award from this year’s Far East Film Festival in Udine. This year’s FEFF took place exclusively online, owing to the spread of the Covid-19 disease. The festival opened late las...

PARASITE Tops Grand Bell and BaekSang Arts Awards

The 56th editions of both the Grand Bell Film Awards and the BaekSang Arts Awards were held in quick succession earlier this month, on the 3rd and 5th, both without an audience for the first time, owing to public health concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic. B...

56th Baeksang Arts Awards to Take Place without Audience on June 5

Following a delay owing to the current pandemic, the 56th edition of the Baeksang Arts Awards are now scheduled to take place on June 5 in the KINTEX center in Ilsan to the West of Seoul, thought they will take place without a live audience. The nominees for B...

HOTEL BY THE RIVER Tops Busan Film Critics Awards

Auteur Hong Sangsoo topped this year’s 20th Busan Film Critics Association Awards by taking the Best Film prize for his film Hotel by the River (2018). The indie film also picked up the Best Actor Prize for its lead KI Joo-bong. Hotel by the River, Hong’s 23rd...

PARASITE Earns 5 Prizes at Blue Dragon Film Awards

BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite was the big winner at the issue of this year’s 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards, where it picked up five prizes, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (JO Yeo-jeong), Best Supporting Actress (LEE Jung-eun) and Best Production Des...

Hawaii International Film Festival Selects 9 Features from Korea

A total of nine feature films from Korea will be taking part in this year’s 39th Hawaii International Film Festival, which will take place from November 6 to 24. Taking part in the main competition section for the KAU KA HŌKŪ Award will be the affair drama Ano...

JO Jung-suk and Yoon-a Look for an EXIT

While the busy high summer season is on the verge on winding down for 2018, one of next year’s summer season contenders has begun production. Debut film of director LEE Sang-geun, the action disaster Exit (working title), starring JO Jung-suk and Kpop supersta...