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[Feature] Film crowdfunding: When viewers are stakeholdersFilmAug 31, 2020South Korea’s largest crowdfunding platform Wadiz has been an active mediator for film crowdfunding. Last year, crowdfunding campaigns for three commercial films distributed by Lotte Entertainment --... -
‘It’s Okay to Not Be Okay’ penalized for sexually inappropriate scenesTelevisionAug 28, 2020Popular tvN drama series “It’s Okay to Not Be Okay” has been slapped with a warning by the Korea Communications Standards Commission for sexually suggestive and inappropriate scenes. The broadcast c... -
Song Joong-ki’s ‘Space Sweepers’ release shelved againFilmAug 28, 2020The release of Korean space blockbuster “Space Sweepers” has been delayed yet again as new coronavirus infections continue in South Korea, with 371 new cases confirmed Friday. On Thursday, the film... -
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[Box Office] Movies in theaters this weekFilmAug 28, 2020Fukuoka (Korea) Opened Aug. 27 Drama Directed by Chang Lu So-dam (Park So-dam) takes Je-moon (Yoon Je-moon) to Fukuoka to reconnect him with his long estranged friend Hae-hyo (Kwon Hae-hyo). The... -
Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda’s first Korean film to star top Korean actorsFilmAug 27, 2020“Back in 2009, I promised Bae that ‘we would collaborate again, next time, as a human character’ and I have come to keep this promise after 10 years,” Koreeda said in a statement released in Korean b... -
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[Herald Interview] ‘Dreamlike love story in ‘Fukuoka’ is all around us’FilmAug 24, 2020Zhang said his films always start from a particular space. “I think it’s my curiosity of the space. Whether I want to revisit it. Even when it’s empty, such places hold the scents, the warmth and th... -
Culture sector close to complete shutdownTelevisionAug 23, 2020With the virus pandemic here unraveling out of control nationwide, productions from the stage to the small screen are shutting down to prevent further spread of the coronavirus. After a cast member ... -
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[Box Office] Movies in theaters this weekFilmAug 21, 2020An Old Lady (Korea) Opened Aug. 20 Drama Directed by Lim Sun-ae The elderly Hyo-jung (Ye Su-jeong) is sexually abused by a 29-year-old male nurse’s aide during physical therapy. When she reports... -
COVID-19 causes TV production stoppagesTelevisionAug 20, 2020The South Korean entertainment industry could face a shutdown with the growing number of COVID-19 infections among TV cast and crew members. Terrestrial broadcaster KBS is on alert after a member of... -
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[Herald Interview] Rookie filmmaker wants to talk more about family, childrenFilmAug 19, 2020“My personal preference lies with adventure stories of children, like the TV show ‘Stranger Things’ (2016). But I do have concerns about how much value such films would have in the Korean film market... -
Women’s film fest to show ‘mutual gaze’ of womenFilmAug 19, 2020The 22nd Seoul International Women’s Film Festival will take place Sept. 10-16 under the slogan “Mutual Gaze.” With the novel coronavirus spreading in the capital area at an alarming rate, organizer... -
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[Feature] Will shutting down comments section curb abuses online?CultureAug 18, 2020The country’s three major online portals -- Naver, Kakao and Nate -- announced earlier this month that they were temporarily closing the comments sections under their sports articles until they could... -
‘Space Sweepers’ is not the usual sci-fi hero blockbusterFilmAug 18, 2020Actress Kim Tae-ri, who starred in “The Handmaiden” (2016) and “Little Forest” (2018), takes the role of a strong yet warm-hearted captain of the spaceship. “Captain Jang is the brain of the crew. S... -
'Peninsula’ racks up $48m in 15 countries, tops global box officeFilmAug 14, 2020Less than a month since the Korean zombie flick opened locally on July 15, “Peninsula” is topping box offices worldwide. According to the film’s local distributor Next Entertainment World on Friday,... -
Personal story of ‘An Old Lady’ sends universal messageFilmAug 12, 2020Hyo-jung’s relationship with Dong-in -- played by veteran actor Ki -- is also another message of the film. While the couple lives together, they are not married nor do they seem to be in a romantic r...
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