Car Chase Action BBAENGBAN Revs Up for Production

COIN LOCKER GIRL Director Follow-up Stars KONG Hyo-jin, RYU Jun-yeol, JO Jung-suk HAN Jun-hee’s Coin Locker Girl (2015) follow-up Bbaengban (Korean title) has locked its cast and will commence production later this month. The Showbox title will star KONG Hyo-j...

RYU Jun-yeol Joins KONG Hyo-jin in BBAENGBAN

Following his female-led gangster saga Coin Locker Girl (2015), director HAN Jun-hee is putting the final touches on the cast of his next project, the cop thriller Bbaengban (Korean title). Joining the previously announced KONG Hyo-jin in the lead is rising su...

THE MERCILESS Leads Nominations for 38th Blue Dragon Film Awards

BYUN Sung-hyun’s crime thriller The Merciless, which was screened in the midnight lineup of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, is leading the nominations for the upcoming 38th Blue Dragon Film Awards with nods in nine categories. Close behind with eight nominat...

KONG Hyo-jin Enters DOOR LOCK and BBAENGBAN

Top star KONG Hyo-jin has lined up a pair of new projects to be shot back to back early next year. The actress will appear in LEE Kwon’s Door Lock, which will begin rolling at the beginning of the year while HAN Jun-hee’s Bbaengban is scheduled to start produc...

CHAMPION Casts Don LEE, HAN Ye-ri and GWON Yool

Champion (translated title), the latest project from Warner Bros. Korea following The Age of Shadows (2016) and A Single Rider(2016), has completed its casting and started filming. “Champion began production on October 9th after confirming its main cast which ...

LEE Byung-hun and PARK Jung-min Wrap THAT’S ONLY MY WORLD

Incoming family drama That’s Only My World (working title) wrapped production on August 27th. The debut film from director CHOI Sung-hyun stars LEE Byung-hun, PARK Jung-min, YOUN Yuh-jung, HAN Ji-min and KIM Sung-ryoung. LEE Byung-hun plays a has-been boxer wh...

Fantastic Fest Adds THE MERCILESS and VIP

The 13th edition of Fantastic Fest in Austin, TX, the leading genre film event in the United States, will welcome two new Korean thrillers when it opens its doors on September 21st. Both BYUN Sung-hun’s The Merciless and PARK Hoon-jong’s V.I.P. will screen at ...

DOH Kyung-soo and AN So-hui Win Inaugural JIMFF STAR Awards

During its 13th edition, the Jecheon International Music & Film Festival handed out two new awards: the JIMFF OST award and the JIMFF STAR award. The JIMFF OST Award was taken by KIM Hong-jip and LEE Jin-hee, the composers of The Merciless, while the JIMFF...

THE WORLD OF US Opens 8th Korean Film Festival in Australia

The Korean Film Festival in Australia returns later this month bigger than ever before. The 8th edition of KOFFIA is set to screen 36 films across 8 cities as the festival moves around Australia, beginning in Sydney on August 17th and winding up in Darwin and ...

Excellence in Action Cinema Award for JUNG Byung-gil in New York

Director JUNG Byung-gil will be traveling to New York this week to collect the Daniel E. Craft Award for Excellence in Action Cinema for his latest work The Villainess, which serves as the closing film of this year’s 16th edition of the New York Asian Film Fes...