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- Chae Kyoungsun Triumphs at 26th Art Directors Guild Awards
- Production designer Chae Kyoungsun triumphed in the One-Hour Contemporary Single-Camera Series category at this year’s 26th Art Directors Guild Awards for her work on the global smash Squid Game.Chae beat out nominees for major American series such as Succession, The Morning Show, The Handmaid’s Tal...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 11, 2022
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- Lim Yoona and Kim Seonho Rendez-vous for TWO O’CLOCK DATE
- EXIT Director Returns with Romantic ComedyLim Yoona and Kim Seonho are set to star in the upcoming romantic comedy Two O’Clock Date (translated title). The project will see Lim re-team with her EXIT (2019) director Lee Sanggeun.The romcom will focus on two apartment neighbors. Lim will play a woman ...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 24, 2021
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- PARASITE Leads Asian Film Awards with 10 Nominations
- The Asian Film Awards are returning for their 14th edition this year, which will take place for the first time in Busan, South Korea, after the previous 13 editions took place in either Hong Kong or Macao. Leading the nominations scorecard is BONG Joon-ho’s global smash Parasite (2019), which was re...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 25, 2020
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- EXIT Presented White Mulberry Award from Udine
- LEE Sang-geun’s hit disaster action-comedy EXIT (2019) received the White Mulberry Award from this year’s Far East Film Festival in Udine. This year’s FEFF took place exclusively online, owing to the spread of the Covid-19 disease. The festival opened late last month with the big-budget disaster dra...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 16, 2020
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- PARASITE Tops Grand Bell and BaekSang Arts Awards
- The 56th editions of both the Grand Bell Film Awards and the BaekSang Arts Awards were held in quick succession earlier this month, on the 3rd and 5th, both without an audience for the first time, owing to public health concerns during the COVID-19 Pandemic. BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite (2019) won the Be...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 16, 2020
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- 56th Baeksang Arts Awards to Take Place without Audience on June 5
- Following a delay owing to the current pandemic, the 56th edition of the Baeksang Arts Awards are now scheduled to take place on June 5 in the KINTEX center in Ilsan to the West of Seoul, thought they will take place without a live audience. The nominees for Best Film this year are BONG Joon-ho’s Pa...
- by Pierce Conran / May 22, 2020
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- HOTEL BY THE RIVER Tops Busan Film Critics Awards
- Auteur Hong Sangsoo topped this year’s 20th Busan Film Critics Association Awards by taking the Best Film prize for his film Hotel by the River (2018). The indie film also picked up the Best Actor Prize for its lead KI Joo-bong. Hotel by the River, Hong’s 23rd film, initially debuted in competition ...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 05, 2019
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- PARASITE Earns 5 Prizes at Blue Dragon Film Awards
- BONG Joon-ho’s Parasite was the big winner at the issue of this year’s 40th Blue Dragon Film Awards, where it picked up five prizes, including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (JO Yeo-jeong), Best Supporting Actress (LEE Jung-eun) and Best Production Design (LEE Ha-joon). JUNG Woo-sung was cro...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 25, 2019
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- Hawaii International Film Festival Selects 9 Features from Korea
- A total of nine feature films from Korea will be taking part in this year’s 39th Hawaii International Film Festival, which will take place from November 6 to 24. Taking part in the main competition section for the KAU KA HŌKŪ Award will be the affair drama Another Child, the acclaimed directing debu...
- by Pierce Conran / Nov 01, 2019
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- JO Jung-suk and Yoon-a Look for an EXIT
- While the busy high summer season is on the verge on winding down for 2018, one of next year’s summer season contenders has begun production. Debut film of director LEE Sang-geun, the action disaster Exit (working title), starring JO Jung-suk and Kpop superstar Yoon-a, kicked off filming on August 4...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 22, 2018