KIM Sung-ho, the director of such heartwarming Korean fare as How To Steal A Dog (2014) and Notebook from My Mother (2018), has become the latest local director to team up with the global streamer Netflix for a Korean-language original series. Move to Heaven is inspired by a non-fiction essay by KIM Sae-byul called ‘Things Left Behind’. The writer used to be a ‘trauma cleaner’, a professional entr...

Following his adaptation of Barbara O’Connor’s novel How To Steal A Dog (2014), director KIM Sung-ho will return with another family drama next year. Mother’s Notebook: Recipe of Memories (literal title) features actor LEE Jong-hyeuk in the lead role. In the film, an elderly woman runs a popular store in a neighbourhood but begins to lose her memory, which leads her to begin writing in a notebook....

Classic Korean Melo Gets Hollywood Treatment Penny Dreadful star Josh Hartnett is considering the lead in the Hollywood remake of classic Korean melodrama A Moment To Remember (2004). If he signs on, he will take over a role made famous by local heartthrob JUNG Woo-sung and co-star with Jena Malone, who plays the role originated by SON Ye-jin. Ben Lewin, director of The Sessions, will take the r...

The new spy drama Secretly Greatly starring KIM Soo-hyun enjoyed a spectacular debut at the Korean box office, selling over 4 million tickets in its first eight days on release. It has broken numerous records for Korean films, including the best opening day ever (490,000 admissions on June 5) and the best single day performance ever (919,027 admissions on June 6, a national holiday). It also stand...