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Gao Ming’s ‘Damp Season’ bags grand prize at Jeonju film fest

Jun 2, 2020

The international competition’s best picture prize went to Argentine director Clarisa Navas’ “One in a Thousand,” while the special jury prize went to “The Year of the Discovery,” by Spanish filmmake...
Big-name actors coming to big screen in July

Jun 1, 2020

Meanwhile, Hwang Jung-min and Lee Jung-jae will be teaming up in hardboiled action flick “Deliver Us From Evil.” The two actors are reuniting seven years after appearing together in the crime noir “N...
Movies go half-price to attract theatergoers

May 31, 2020

Though fears concerning the novel coronavirus persist among the public, the film industry is ushering people to cinemas with discount coupons for movie tickets. The Korean Film Council, a state-fund...
CGV adopts system that checks whether moviegoers have masks on properly

May 29, 2020

CGV, South Korea's largest multiplex chain, said Friday it has adopted camera systems that automatically check moviegoers' temperatures and whether or not they have their masks on properly amid conce...
[Box Office] Movies in theaters this week

May 29, 2020

Underwater (US) Opened May 27 Action, Horror, Sci-Fi Directed by William Eubank A huge earthquake hits a subterranean drilling station at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and mechanical enginee...
‘Intruder’ questions universal beliefs about family at a time of forced togetherness amid pandemic

May 28, 2020

“The idea of family is mostly accepted positively and warmly in our society, but at the same time, family holds the deepest secrets and sometimes the darkest of them. I thought, maybe, the universal ...
YouTube film fest to stream discussion with 'Parasite' actor, director

May 27, 2020

A conversation among Song Kang-ho, the star of Oscar-winning South Korean film "Parasite," and the film's writer-director, Bong Joon-ho, will be streamed during an upcoming online global film festiva...
Yoo Ah-in, Park Shin-hye team up in zombie horror film ‘#Alive’

May 27, 2020

The movie is based on the 2019 US horror movie “Alone,” and the writer of the original movie Matt Naylor teamed up with director Cho to adapt the story for the Korean audience. “The very original ve...
Korean film industry revs up for summer season

May 27, 2020

Mystery, thriller, zombie flicks scheduled for release in June
#SaveOurCinema rallies support for indie films

May 25, 2020

While the global box office continues to suffer from the COVID-19 pandemic, stars in Korea are taking part in the #SaveOurCinema campaign to arouse the public’s interest in indie, arthouse films. Th...
Movie theaters to live stream 'League of Legends' tournament

May 25, 2020

While fears of the novel coronavirus have emptied movie theaters in South Korea, esports fans are given a rare opportunity to watch a "League of Legends" (LoL) tournament on the big screen. CGV, a m...
Actor-turned-director debuts with ‘Me and Me’

May 23, 2020

Jung said he had Cho in mind as his lead character even before he had completed the script. “I tried to visualize my characters as I wrote the scenario, and Cho came into my mind. I wrote the script...
Indie film awards to open despite COVID-19 outbreak

May 22, 2020

The Wildflower Film Awards Korea will hold its annual ceremony Friday evening as the first film festival here to open since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus. Founded by the film critic and tran...
[Box Office] Movies in theaters this week

May 22, 2020

Bori (Korea) Opened May 21 Drama, Family Directed by Kim Jin-yu Among the family of four, Bori (Kim Ah-song) is the only person who does not have a hearing disability. Just 11 years old, Bori be...
PIPFF to proceed offline next month amid COVID-19

May 20, 2020

“Adventures of a Mathematician” by Berlin-based director Thor Klein will open the festival. The film tells the true story of a Polish immigrant mathematician of Jewish background, Stanislaw Ulam, who...