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- PARASITE Tops Korean Film Critics Association Awards
- BONG Joon-ho’s latest film PARASITE was triumphant at this year’s 39th Korean Film Critics Association Awards. The Palme d’Or-winning box office hit earned awards for Best Film and Best Director, as well as Best Cinematography for director of photography HONG Kyeong-pyo. Also winning big was KIM Bor...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 01, 2019
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- Legendary Actor SHIN Seong-il Passes Away, Aged 81
- SHIN Seong-il, the towering figure of Korean cinema who appeared in well over 500 films during his 50-year career, passed away on Sunday, November 4 following his battle with lung cancer. The actor was 81 years old and is survived by his wife, fellow actress UM Aeng-ran, as well as his son and two d...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 09, 2018
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- CHOI Eun-hee Passes Away Aged 91
- Legendary actress CHOI Eun-hee passed away on April 16 at the age of 91 following complications stemming from a chronic disease. She was known as a screen siren of Korean cinema in the 1960s and was famously abducted in the 1970s, along with her husband, director SHIN Sang-ok, and forced to make fil...
- by Pierce Conran / May 01, 2018
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- Classic Film Director KIM Kee-duk Passes Away at 83
- KIM Kee-duk, one of the most important Korean filmmakers of the 1960s and 70s, has died at the age of 83. The director of The Barefooted Young (1964) and Yongary: Monster from the Deep (1967) succumbed to lung cancer, which he was diagnosed with five months ago, on the afternoon of Thursday, Septemb...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 18, 2017