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- The 18th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival Opens K-Movie Original Film Concert
- The 18th Jecheon International Music & Film Festival will hold a film concert with a large orchestra. The film concert is an event you listen to the soundtracks through orchestra live performance while watching the movies. At the Jecheon International Music & Film Festival this year, the fil...
- by Park Hyejin / Jul 07, 2022
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- Sewing Sisters, the Grand Prize Winner of the 9th Wild Flower Film Awards Documentary
- Wild Flower Film Awards, the representative award ceremony of the Korean independent film industry, was held on May 27 (Fri) at Namsan Literature House in Seoul. Marking its 9th anniversary this year, Wild Flower Film Awards is designed to re-examine and promote low-budget independent films produced...
- by Park Hyejin / Jun 02, 2022
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- RYU Seung-ryong and YUM Jung-ah Join LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL
- Extreme Job star RYU Seung-ryong and YUM Jung-ah, hot off the sensational hit TV show Sky Castle, are set to join forces as an on-screen couple for Default (2018) director CHOI Kook-hee on the upcoming musical drama Life Is Beautiful (working title). The film will follow Oh Se-yeon (YUM Jung-ah), a ...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 01, 2019
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- SUB-ZERO WIND Competes for Vesoul’s Cyclo d’Or
- The Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinemas kicked off its 25th edition on February 5 and is featuring four films from Korea this year. KIM Yuri’s debut work Sub-Zero Wind (2017) is screening in competition while three classics spanning from the 1960s to 2001 are featured in other progra...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 10, 2019
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- MONEY to Cash In in March
- Money, a new financial thriller from first-time director PARK Nu-ri which stars RYU Jun-yeol and YOO Ji-tae, has secured a March release date in Korea. Hot on the heels of the vehicular action-thriller Hit-and-Run Squad, which is currently in theaters for the Lunar New Year holiday, the project will...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 01, 2019
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- Showbox Adds UNSTOPPABLE and HIT-AND-RUN SQUAD for Cannes Lineup
- Korean film company Showbox has added a pair of new titles to its sales lineup just in time for the Marché du Film taking place during the Cannes Film Festival this year. The pickups include the crime action Hit-and-Run Squad and the action film Unstoppable. From Coin Locker Girl (2015) director HAN...
- by Pierce Conran / May 15, 2018
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- Showbox Animates Sales for DETECTIVE K: SECRET OF THE LIVING DEAD
- Showbox, one of Korea’s main film investors and distributors, had a fruitful few days at the Hong Kong International Film and TV Market(Filmart), which took place from March 19-22 on HK Island, running alongside the Hong Kong International Film Festival(HKIFF). The company scored several deals on th...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 29, 2018
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- LEE Jung-hyun Makes a SECRET AGREEMENT
- LEE Jung-hyun has found her follow-up project to last year’s World War II action drama The Battleship Island, after signing on to play the leading role in the forthcoming thriller Secret Agreement (translated title). The star will take on the role of Seo Joo-ha, the granddaughter of a conglomerate c...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 26, 2018
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- Showbox Shops Five Genre Titles at EFM
- Korean distributor Showbox, which scored one of its biggest ever hits last summer with the release of the political drama A Taxi Driver, is shopping five titles at this year’s European Film Market, ranging from their current Lunar New Year hit Detective K: Secret of the Living Dead to their major su...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 26, 2018