New Zealand Korean Film Festival Opens Doors to 2018 Edition

The Korean Cinerama Trust and the Korean Embassy in Auckland hosted this year’s New Zealand Korean Film Festival, which opened its doors on October 11th. Also supporting the event are the Korean Film Council (Chairman - OH Seok Geun) and the New Zealand Asia I...

BEAUTY INSIDE makes the Switch to Small Screen

BAEK Jong-yeol’s 2015 romantic comedy Beauty Inside is set to be adapted into a television drama. In the movie, Yi-soo (HAN Hyo-joo) falls in love with Woo-jin (KIM Dae-myeong), a man that wakes up in a different body every day. However, the TV drama version o...

THE FAULTS IN OUR STARS Scribes Sell THE BEAUTY INSIDE Pitch in Hollywood

The US remake of Korean fantasy drama The Beauty Inside (2015) has found a home at Fox 2000 and Temple Hill, after they bought a pitch from The Faults in Out Stars screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber. Emilia Clarke, one of the stars of the popu...

KIM Jee-woon Appointed as President of Jury of the 15th Edition of Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival

List Includes CHOI Dong-hoon, OH Dal-su and SHIN Min-a The 15th edition of Mise-en-scène Short Film Festival opened on June 23rd, beginning a beautiful feast of films. This year, 63 films selected from 1,037 submissions are in the competition. The president o...

Stockholm IFF Takes 5 from Korea

Eclectic Korean Fare on Show in Sweden The Stockholm International Film Festival will host five films from Korea when its 26th edition takes place from November 11th to the 22nd. Four feature titles from the Far East filmmaking powerhouse will be found in the...

New York Korean Film Festival Returns for 13th Edition

NYKFF to Open with HONG Won-chan’s OFFICE The New York Korean Film Festival, put on by Subway Cinema (New York Asian Film Festival) and the Korea Society and supported by the Korea Foundation, is returning for its 13th edition next month at the Museum of the ...

China to Get New Version of THE BEAUTY INSIDE

On the heels of its recent box office run in Korea, high concept melodrama The Beauty Inside is gearing up from a Chinese-language remake. The film, which will see BAIK once again take on directing duties, will be one of the first projects from the new outfit ...