SQUID GAME’s Lee Jungjae Wraps Directorial Debut

Lee Stars in Spy Thriller HUNT alongside Jung WoosungSquid Game star Lee Jungjae has just wrapped production on his latest challenge - his directorial debut Hunt. The crime film also sees him appear before the camera, co-starring with his friend and fellow sta...

LEE Byung-hun and HA Jung-woo Wrap MOUNT BAEKDU

Superstars LEE Byung-hun and HA Jung-woo wrapped production on the star-studded action drama Mount Baekdu (translated title) on July 21 after five months of filming. The project, which co-stars Don LEE (aka MA Dong-seok), JEON Hye-jin and BAE Suzy, among other...

LAST CHILD and THE POET AND THE BOY Headed to Seattle

This month’s 44th Seattle International Film Festival will welcome a pair of new Korean independent films when it opens on May 17th. SHIN Dong-seok’s Last Child (2017) and KIM Yang-hee’sThe Poet and The Boy(2017) will be among the 433 films screening at SIFF t...

Car Chase Action BBAENGBAN Revs Up for Production

COIN LOCKER GIRL Director Follow-up Stars KONG Hyo-jin, RYU Jun-yeol, JO Jung-suk HAN Jun-hee’s Coin Locker Girl (2015) follow-up Bbaengban (Korean title) has locked its cast and will commence production later this month. The Showbox title will star KONG Hyo-j...

Göteborg Film Festival Invites Korean Quintet

The Göteborg Film Festival will return on January 26 for its 41st edition, which will feature five films from Korea. Two among those, JEON Go-woon’s Microhabitat(2017) and the documentary Letters (2017) by Marte Vold and Jero YUN, will screen in the Ingmar Ber...

RYU Jun-yeol Joins KONG Hyo-jin in BBAENGBAN

Following his female-led gangster saga Coin Locker Girl (2015), director HAN Jun-hee is putting the final touches on the cast of his next project, the cop thriller Bbaengban (Korean title). Joining the previously announced KONG Hyo-jin in the lead is rising su...

THE FORTRESS Dominates 37th Korean Film Critics Association Awards

The Korean Film Critics Association announced the winners for its upcoming 37th awards, and it will be the period siege drama The Fortress that walks away with the biggest and most prizes when the show takes place next month. HWANG Dong-hyuk’s austere film ear...

Tokyo Film Festival Welcomes THE POET AND THE BOY

KIM Yang-hee’s debut The Poet and the Boy has been invited to screen in the ‘World Focus’ section of this year’s 30th Tokyo International Film Festival. The film, which stars YANG Ik-june, JEON Hye-jin and JUNG Ga-ram, was one of the three Jeonju Cinema Projec...

Toronto Welcomes THE POET AND THE BOY and THE DAY AFTER

Hong Sangsoo will return to the Toronto International Film Festival next month with his 21st feature The Day After, which debuted in competition at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, while Jeonju Cinema Project The Poet and The Boy and the short (100f...

YANG Ik-june, JEON Hye-jin Start Filming A POET’S LOVE

Actors YANG Ik-june, JEON Hye-jin and JEONG Ga-ram began filming A Poet’s Love on December 21st. From first time director KIM Yang-hee, the film is one of the participants of this year’s Jeonju Cinema Project, and will therefore premiere at the upcoming Jeonju...