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...

IM Sang-soo Preps American Debut SOHO SINS

Acclaimed filmmaker IM Sang-soo is preparing his Hollywood feature debut, an adaptation of the New York-set art world crime novel ‘Soho Sins’, written by Richard VINE. Korean outfit Yulmae Entertainment is producing along with the US-based 2W Network, which ow...

Korea Taps THE MAN STANDING NEXT as Official Academy Award Submission

WOO Min-ho’s political drama The Man Standing Next has been selected by the Korean Film Council as the country’s official entry to the Best International Film category of next year’s 93rd Academy Awards, which will take place in April. LEE Byung-hun leads the ...

ASHFALL to Open 22th Far East Film Festival

The Korean disaster action blockbuster ASHFALL will serve as the opening film of this year’s online-only edition of the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine, Italy, leading a program of 46 titles from around Asia. FEFF was originally scheduled to take place ...

CHOI Min-shik and PARK Hae-il Travel TO THE LAND OF HAPPINESS

Director IM Sang-soo’s latest film To the Land of Happiness (working title) wrapped production on October 19. The thriller features CHOI Min-shik and PARK Hae-il, marking the first on-screen pairing for the two stars. CHOI and PARK play two men who meet by cha...

THE LITTLE DRUMMER GIRL Wins Best Cinematography at BAFTA TV Craft Awards

Veteran cinematographer KIM Wu-hyeong was awarded the Best Cinematography Prize from the BAFTA TV Craft Awards for his work on PARK Chan-wook’s The Little Drummer Girl mini-series for the BBC. Director PARK’s TV debut, the six-part series The Little Drummer Gi...

Director IM Sang-soo Invited to Macao Project Market

Director IM Sang-soo may be back behind a camera before long as his new project Dead in the Lake has been invited to participate in the project market of this year’s 2nd International Film Festival & Awards Macao. Described as a chilling thriller, Dead In ...

IDOL Begins Filming with HAN Suk-kyu, SUL Kyung-gu and CHUN Woo-hee

LEE Su-jin’s long-awaited Han Gong-ju (2014) follow-up Idol kicked off filming on October 24th. The crime thriller is a star-studded affair featuring SUL Kyung-gu, HAN Suk-kyu and CHUN Woo-hee, who rose to stardom following LEE’s debut. HAN plays a politician ...

LKFF Stages BAEK Yoon-sik Retrospective

Veteran character actor BAEK Yoon-sik will be the focus of a retrospective at the London Korean Film Festival, which kicked off its 11th edition on Thursday the 3rd of November. The program will feature five of his films, ranging from 2003’s cult classic Save ...

Director IM Sang-soo to Lead Vesoul Jury

Vesoul International Asian Movies Film Festival Prepares 22nd Edition Vesoul International Asian Movies Film Festival, a longtime supporter of cutting edge Korean cinema, is preparing to unspool its 22nd edition next month, over February 3rd to the 10th. The ...