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- Korean Streaming Market Heats Up
- The millions of Netflix subscribers around the world who logged into their accounts over the past few days were likely tempted by scintillating images of an imagined future and dazzling displays of intergalactic travel. However, they didn’t belong to the latest Hollywood sci-fi tentpole. Netflix’s m...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 09, 2021
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- Job Title in Need of an Update as Filmmakers Head to the Small Screen
- If someone has a title like ‘film director’ it seems reasonable to expect that their job would be to direct films, but things are no longer so cut and dry. These days, when a film director is revealed to be working on a new project, there’s a good chance it’ll be for the small screen - including loc...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 01, 2021
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- How Did Science Fiction Become the New Big Thing in Korean Cinema?
- Better computer graphics and material exhaustion lead to the dawn of a new genre in the industry Had it not been for the pandemic, “science fiction” might have been the word that best defined last year’s Korean film. SF8, which is dubbed as a “Korean-style Original SF Anthology Series”, debuted on ...
- by PARK Agnes / Jan 26, 2021
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- Korean Films to Watch Out for in 2021
- Following its most difficult year, the Korean film industry is looking to stage a comeback later in 2021. The global COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on the film industry, emptying out theaters, delaying releases and even shutting down some productions, but filmmakers and studios are collectively...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 12, 2021
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- Rising Stars to Look Out for in 2021
- 2020 was an unusually challenging year for film (and practically every other industry) but partly owing to the fact that so little came out over the past 10 months, we have quite a lot to look forward to in 2021. Provided some improvement in the pandemic materializes over the next few months, a lot ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 29, 2020
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- 2020 - The Year that Was in Korean Film
- Over the past 20 years, few 12-month cycles have been quiet for Korean cinema, an industry that has evolved rapidly during that time, yet none could have imagined the highs and lows it would experience as we woke up to 2020, all the way back on January 1st. Then again, the whole world wasn’t ready f...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 14, 2020
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- We’re looking at five of Korea’s most celebrated editors
- Actors are the people we most often associate with the films we watch, while we’ll often give credit to the directors and screenwriters for the stories we’ve enjoyed and the way they were told. Yet, of course, it takes an army of talented professionals to mount a production. Over the past few weeks,...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 01, 2020
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- Designing the Worlds of Korean Cinema
- There’s no shortage of creativity in Korean cinema, an industry that has reinvented genres such as the crime thriller and zombie horror, and brought its own culture and color to the screen through fascinating period-set stories. Yet while directors and screenwriters have been busy creating imaginati...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 16, 2020
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- Highlights of 25th Busan International Film Festival
- Pandemic-Struck Festival Foregrounds Fresh Korean Film Voices Despite the global pandemic forcing it to scale down dramatically, the Busan International Film Festival was able to pull off its 25th edition successfully this year, with committed cinephiles embracing the festival’s deep program down i...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 03, 2020
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- Korea’s Unrivalled Visual Stylists
- For close to two decades, Korean cinema has been praised for its beautiful, striking and dynamic cinematography, but while much of this credit ends up going to country’s superlative ‘stylist’ directors, such as PARK Chan-wook, KIM Jee-woon and BONG Joon-ho, their visions would all be for naught, wer...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 20, 2020
