Hitmaker JK YOUN Returns with HERO

Hitmaker JK YOUN is back on set with his latest film Hero (translated title), a musical which began production on September 10. Based on the hit stage musical of the same name, the film will star CHUNG Sung-hwa, KIM Go-eun and NA Moon-hee. The musical will fol...

JO Sung-hee’s VICTORY with SONG Joong-ki, KIM Tae-ri Takes Off

JO Sung-hee’s fourth film, the big-budget space drama Victory (translated title), entered production on July 3. SONG Joong-ki, KIM Tae-ri, JIN Seon-kyu and YOO Hae-jin lead the cast, which will also feature British actor Richard ARMITAGE. Plot details are stil...

SONG Joong-ki in Talks for Space Drama LIGHTNING ARC

Superstar SONG Joong-ki is in talks to reunite with his A Werewolf Boy (2012) director JO Sung-hee for the upcoming space-set drama Lightning Arc (translated title). Set against the backdrop of space, Lightning Arc is expected to combine Korean actors with an ...

NA Moon-hee and LEE Je-hoon Sign Up for I CAN SPEAK

Veteran actress NA Moon-hee and young star LEE Je-hoon will join forces in a new cross-generational comedy-drama. From Cyrano Agency (2010) director KIM Hyun-seok, the film bears the phonetic English title I Can Speak. NA Moon-hee will play a cantankerous elde...

LEE Joon-ik Wraps Colonial Resistance Drama PARK YEOL

Period expert LEE Joon-ik wrapped his new film PARK Yeol on February 17th, after completing a brief five-week shoot for the project on a prison set in Cheongpyeong, Gyeonggi-do Province. LEE Je-hoon leads the independence fighter drama. Other locations include...

GWON Yool, MIN Jin-woong and More Join PARK YEOL

LEE Joon-ik will begin shooting his new Japanese Occupation Era drama PARK Yeol this month and the cast is beginning to fill out beyond the already cast lead LEE Je-hoon. Joining them on set will be GWON Yool, MIN Jin-woong, CHOI Hee-seo and PAIK Soo-jang. The...

Top Star Awards for KONG Hyo-jin, CHO Jin-woong, JO Jung-suk, KWAK Do-won

The Korea Film Actor's Association handed out its 2016 awards during a Top Star Awards ceremony on December 28th in the Grand Hyatt in Seoul. This year’s Top Star Award recipients were KONG Hyo-jin for E.oni’s MISSING, CHO Jin-woong in PARK Chan-wook’s The...

GANG Dong-won & HAN Hyo-joo Headline Thriller GOLDEN SLUMBER

GANG Dong-won and HAN Hyo-joo have signed on to star in the Korean film version of the Japanese novel Golden Slumber by ISAKA Kotaro. The thriller will be the fourth film by director NOH Dong-seok. NAKAMURA Yoshihiro previously made a Japanese version of the b...

LEE Joon-ik Preps New Period Biopic

Period drama specialist LEE Joon-ik is preparing his third consecutive biopic, after The Throne (2015) and DONGJU; The Portrait of A Poet, and his second film on the trot to take place during Korea’s time as a colony of the Japanese Empire. Young star LEE Je-h...

Vancouver Makes Way for Korean Films

The Dragons & Tigers section of the Vancouver International Film Festival returns in 2016 under the new name Gateway with 25 features, including a quintet of works from South Korean filmmakers. Frequent VIFF invitee HONG Sang-soo once again appears on the ...