22nd Jeonju International Film Festival Opens

JIFF to Present 194 Titles Under Slogan ‘Film Goes On’The Jeonju International Film Festival kicked off its 22nd edition last Thursday, April 29. This year’s event, presented under the slogan ‘Film Goes On’, is screening 194 films from 48 countries.The opening...

Studio & NEW Seals Pact with Disney+

Korean Studio to Develop Content for Disney Streaming PlatformStudio & NEW, the production arm of Korean studio Next Entertainment World (N.E.W.), announced that it has sealed a pact with global streamer Disney+. The deal covers a five year period and incl...

Korean Film Archive Reveals YOUN Yuh-jung Retrospective

KOFA to Present 18 Works from Academy Award Winner’s Illustrious CareerYOUN Yuh-jung, who made history last month as the first Korean performer to earn an Oscar at the Academy Awards, where she picked up Best Supporting Actress Award for Lee Isaac CHUNG’s Mina...

Oscar Winner YOUN Yuh-jung Continues to Lay New Roots

MINARI Star Has Reinvented Herself Throughout 50 Year Screen CareerLast Sunday, a Korean actor won an Academy Award for the very first time. YOUN Yuh-jung, who was also the first Korean performer to ever be nominated for an Oscar, earned the Best Supporting Ac...

Stars Align for Ensemble Romcom HAPPY NEW YEAR

LIM Yoon-a, HAN Ji-min, KANG Ha-neul and More Cast in KWAK Jae-yong’s LatestMy Sassy Girl (2001) filmmaker KWAK Jae-yong is returning to the director’s chair for the ensemble romantic comedy Happy New Year (literal title) from CJ Entertainment, which has assem...

KIM Woo-bin, RYU Jun-yeol and KIM Tae-ri Wrap 2-Part ALIEN

Latest CHOI Dong-hoon Blockbuster Completes 13-Month ShootDirector CHOI Dong-hoon has been busy at work on his latest project, the two-part sci-fi-action film Alien (translated title), and after kicking off filming in March last year, the simultaneously shot f...

Lee Jehoon, Park Jungmin, Choi Heeseo, and Son Seok-koo are Challenging Original Contents with Korean OTT

Watcha, an online streaming service in Korea, starts producing original series with actors, including Lee Jehoon , Park Jungmin, Son Seok-koo, and Choi Heeseo.On April 20th, Watcha announced that it will co-produce the ‘Unframed’ project with Hardcut, a produc...

The Closet, Awarded the Silver Raven at the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival

At the 39th Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF), Director Kim Kwangbin’s <The Closet> won the Silver Raven, the second prize of the International Competition. A panel of judges in the International Competition Section led by Mike Mend...

BOGOTA with SONG Joong-ki and LEE Hee-joon to Resume Filming in Colombia

The upcoming crime drama Bogota (literal title), starring SONG Joong-ki and LEE Hee-jun, is expected to resume production overseas in July. The film initially began shooting in Colombia last year but while in the middle of production they were forced to halt f...

Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival Selects 8 Korean Films

Long a big part of the Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFFF), Korean films will once again descend on the Belgian genre film jubilee in big numbers this year, as eight films from South Korea have been selected to screen at the event’s 39th edi...