“The origin of zombie virus was introduced in the series as an attempt to highlight the people who take responsibility and those who do not when an event, such as school violence, occurs. Though it is another zombie action thriller, I thought the series provides the viewers with a chance to think about what kind of people they are,” Lee said. The 12-part series has topped the Netflix’s streaming...

With major aspect of the Korean wave focused more on the modern aspect. Evans believed that his series presents a new slice of Korea, which presents the dance of tradition and modernity with “newtro,“ a trending keyword in Korea that is a combination of “new” and “retro.” “I personally found newtro interesting, because it was not doing the old within a modern setting, but rather fusing tradition...

E-World Miracle Winter Night E-World Miracle Winter Night is running through Feb. 28 at E-World in Daegu. The festival features a garden of 10,000 light-emitting diode roses, a 15-meter-tall Christmas tree and 100 photo zones ready for Instagram. While all activities will still be masked and socially distanced, visitors can still enjoy rides and attractions in the E-World theme park. Ticket p...

“The normal zombie actions become special in limited spaces. Similar to how the high-speed KTX train in ‘Train to Busan’ (2016) and a Joseon era palace in ‘Kingdom’ created unique zombie scenes, a Korean high school was more than enough to entertain drama fans with fascinating sequences like using a drone from a science lab, jumping over the top of book shelves in a library and fighting against z...

Koreans might have left on an exodus for their hometowns for the Lunar New Year holiday, or Seollal, before the COVID-19 era. But the growing concerns about the rapid spread of the omicron variant and the upsurge in the number of infections may lead many Koreans, expats and travelers to scratch their heads as to how to spend their Seollal weekend, without leaving their homes. Though you may not ...

E-World Miracle Winter Night E-World Miracle Winter Night is running through Feb. 28 at E-World in Daegu. The festival features a garden of 10,000 light-emitting diode roses, a 15-meter-tall Christmas tree and 100 photo zones ready for Instagram. While all activities will still be masked and socially distanced, visitors can still enjoy rides and attractions in the E-World theme park. Ticket p...

“All of Us Are Dead,” an adaptation of a webtoon series of the same title, stars many young actors, including Park, Yoon Chan-young, Lomon, Yoo In-soo and Lim Jae-hyeok. It also features Cho Yi-hyun, best known for her medical student role in tvN’s “Hospital Playlist,” Lee Yoo-mi, known for her heart-rending scene with Jun Ho-yeon, as Ji-yeong and Saebyeok respectively, in the marbles section of ...

“The horror, the bizarre and the speed aside, the series tried to focus on presenting the sadness and sorrow of watching their beloved classmates turning into zombies,” Gook Joong-yi, choreographer of Netflix’s upcoming zombie thriller “All of Us Are Dead,” said in a press release. Though the series also follows the original formula, the director wished to show the evolution of Korean zombies th...

“Women’s sport-variety shows are fresh. The viewers, who were tired of watching similar stories and formats presented by male stars, are drawn to the challenges taken up by female celebrities,” culture critic Jung Duk-hyun told The Korea Herald. “I think the need for distinguishing ‘women’s sports’ will soon be forgotten by the cast’s sincere passion and enthusiasm.” By Lee Si-jin ( sj_lee@hera...

The Asia Culture Center’s international joint creation and production “After War” is to run at the ACC Theater from Jan. 27-30. With an attempt to study and promote the Asian characteristics of performing arts, the ACC international joint creation and production seeks to provide opportunities for performing artists and producers across the world to come together for exchange and research. “Afte...

The streaming service for the seventh episode of “The King of Tears, Lee Bang-won,” which featured the problematic scene of the horse falling, is no longer available from the official website of the series. While the episode is still available via streaming platform Wavve, the scene in question has been deleted. By Lee Si-jin ( sj_lee@heraldcorp.com )

Paju Ice Fishing The annual Paju Trout Festival kicked off Jan. 8 and runs through Feb. 13 at Gangtan Leisure Town in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, though the event has reduced its size to focus only on the ice fishing event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While various programs, including trout catching with bare hands, smelt fishing for children and more, are canceled, visitors can catch a maximum o...

“As more television dramas become available in various local and global streaming platforms, the number of new drama fans continues to increase, leading to the rise in demand of popular series-related contents, including the script,” a Yes24 official said in a press release on Wednesday. “With more drama fans showing their love and support by purchasing the scripts, reading the original script i...

She said the positive energy and brightness of Ji-won was not something that I had before. “I was a little reluctant to play a lively character, because I thought I was more of a calm and boring individual,” the actor said. “At the beginning, I felt embarrassed to make cute gestures and remarks but at the end of the series, I got so used to them that the director told me it was too much and kep...

The highly anticipated “7 Fates: Chakho,” a joint webtoon project between Naver Webtoon and Hybe, the K-pop powerhouse behind the superband BTS, is drawing mixed reactions from both webtoon and BTS fans at home and abroad. “7 Fates: Chakho,” the webtoon and web-novel series starring BTS members, released its first episode on Saturday. The series received a 7.70 rating as of Monday, which is a h...