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...

LA Film Critics Crown YOUN Yuh-jung Best Supporting Actress

Korean screen legend YOUN Yuh-jun continues to be recognized in America for her scene stealing performance in Lee Isaac CHUNG’s acclaim drama Minari. The star picked up the Best Supporting Actress prize from the Los Angeles Film Critics Awards. YOUN is the fou...

Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum Selects THE BIG PICTURE and ON HIGH ICE

Director E J-yong will take in the Hong Kong - Asian Film Financing Forum (HAF) with his new pro-ject The Big Picture. Also featuring in the project market will be the Korean-Israeli co-production On High Ice from director Gary KAM Byung-seok. The Big Picture...

E J-yong Takes in THE BIG PICTURE with Mirovision

Following last year’s critical indie hit The Bacchus Lady, director E J-yong has set his next project, which will be a Korean remake of the French thriller L’homme qui voulait vivre sa vie (‘The Man Who Wanted to Live His Life’), based on the novel ‘The Big Pi...

KO Hyun-jung Returns with A WINTER GUEST SCARIER THAN A TIGER

Actress KO Hyun-jung will end her five year break from the big screen by returning with the film A Winter Guest Scarier than a Tiger. The film will be the third feature by acclaimed indie filmmaker LEE Kwang-kuk. The two previously worked together on HONG Sang...

E J-yong Returns to Narrative Filmmaking

E J-yong, well known for his 2003 feature Untold Scandal, is back with a new film called My Palpitating Life. My Palpitating Life is based on a novel by KIM Ae-ran of the same title (published in 2011) which depicts the life of a young boy with progeria, a rar...

Big Korean Selection at Melbourne

MIFF Holds Special North Korean RetrospectiveBoth South andNorth Korean cinema will be on prominent display at the upcoming Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), which will take place from July 25th to August 11th. A number of Korean films that have al...

New York Gorges on Korean Films

17 Features and Shorts in NYAFF Lineup Summer is here and Korean film looks to be top of the menu for Asian cinema fans in the America’s top metropolis. The popular New York Asian Film Festival is preparing to put on quite a show this year by screening 63 fi...

BEHIND THE CAMERA Invited to Berlin's Panorama Section

E J-yong becomes one of the most invited Korean directors to Berlin Director E J-yong's Behind the Camera has officially been invited to the Panorama section of the 63rd Berlin International Film Festival. It will be the 4th time for E to be invited to B...