Korean stars are lining up for an adaptation of SONE Keisuke’s novel Beasts that Cling to the Straw. JEON Do-yeon, JUNG Woo-sung, BAE Sung-woo, YOUN Yuh-jung and more are featuring in this debut film by director KIM Yong-hoon, which kicked off production on August 30. The mystery-thriller follows several different characters experiencing difficult circumstances as a result of their choices. One of...

Having previously directed King And The Clown (2005), The Throne (2015) and DONGJU; The Portrait of A Poet (2016), LEE Joon-ik will return with his upcoming film Sunset in My Hometown. It will be the last film in LEE’s Youth Trilogy, which comprises DONGJU; The Portrait of A Poet and Anarchist from Colony (2017). While the former was about poet YOON Dong-ju and Korean independence fighter SONG Mon...

Earlier this month, in honor of International Women’s Day, the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival (SIWFF) revealed details for its upcoming 20th anniversary edition. Interest in SIWFF continues to grow worldwide as this year’s programming team recorded the festival’s highest number of submissions ever, receiving 957 films from 61 different countries. This number includes 85 entries for the ...

The Korean Film Council (KOFIC: Chairperson - OH Seok-geun) hosted the 2018 Graduation Film Festival for the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) at the Megabox Shinchon from January 26 to 28. The KAFA Graduation Film Festival, which offers audiences the first chance to see the latest short films from Korea’s next generation of up-and-coming filmmakers, sells out every year with tickets distributed ...

The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has surveyed the nationwide number of cinemas in South Korea went down from 301 to 292 last year, part of a downtrend that started in 2007. The number of screens nationwide in 2011 went from down from 2,003 to 1,974. (On a comparative note, South Korean population growth has gone from 49.2 million people in 2007 to 50.7 million in 2011.) Multiplexes took up 98.1% o...

The Korean Film Council (KOFIC: Chairperson - OH Seok-geun) hosted the 2018 Graduation Film Festival for the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) at the Megabox Shinchon from January 26 to 28. The KAFA Graduation Film Festival, which offers audiences the first chance to see the latest short films from Korea’s next generation of up-and-coming filmmakers, sells out every year with tickets distributed ...

The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has surveyed the nationwide number of cinemas in South Korea went down from 301 to 292 last year, part of a downtrend that started in 2007. The number of screens nationwide in 2011 went from down from 2,003 to 1,974. (On a comparative note, South Korean population growth has gone from 49.2 million people in 2007 to 50.7 million in 2011.) Multiplexes took up 98.1% o...