Gimhae Buncheong Ceramics Festival The Gimhae Buncheong Ceramics Festival is taking place at the Gimhae Buncheong Ceramics Center in Gimhae, South Gyeongsang Province, from Sept. 24-27. The festival celebrates Korea’s unique celadon, “buncheongsagi.” Programs promoting buncheongsagi, including cooking with buncheong ceramic pots and pottery making, will be available. The event is free to v...

Comics and web-based cartoons will be virtually screened at the 24th Bucheon International Comics Festival from Sept. 4, the festival’s organizers said in a press release Thursday. The annual festival, hosted by the Korea Manhwa Contents Agency, is being held online for the second consecutive year via its YouTube channel. The theme of this year’s festival is “new normal, new connection,” highli...

Launching its webtoon platform in 2004, Korean internet giant Naver has pioneered the global webtoon market. The South Korean digital comics platform has 6 million writers and more than 160 million users across the globe, according to the company. Content sales increased to 144.8 billion won ($123.7 million) in the second quarter, a 28.2 percent increase compared to the same period last year, t...

Upcoming horror movie “Guimoon: The Lightless Door,” revolving around four characters in an abandoned building, is scheduled to hit local theaters Wednesday. Artists in the music scene are also seeking to wash away the summer heat with horror tracks. Singer-songwriter Ahn Ye-eun and girl group Dreamcatcher have released “Changgwi” and “BEcause,” respectively. While “Changgwi” tells scary tradi...

Director Yeon Sang-ho’s Netflix original series “Hellbound” will be screened at the 46th Toronto International Film Festival, Netflix announced in a press release Saturday. As the world’s largest public film festival, TIFF presents over 100 films in different sections based on genre, format and the status of the filmmaker. They include Contemporary World Cinema, TIFF Docs, Discovery, Midnight Ma...

Say Sue Me is working on its third album, aiming for an early 2022 release. “We hope that everyone around the globe is staying safe from the COVID-19 and enjoying our music in online. I am currently recording a song for the new album, so I hope our fans continue to show their interest and support our band,” said Choi.

The 2021 League of Legends Champions Korea summer season finals will take place in an empty CJ ENM Studio in Goyang, Gyeonggi Province, Aug. 28, LCK said in a press release Wednesday. In compliance with the social distancing guidelines, all playoff games will be held without spectators. With one week remaining in the LCK summer season, all six of the teams that will advance to the playoffs star...

The 13th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival will kick off in Paju, Gyeonggi Province, on Sept. 9 under the theme of “peace, communication and life.” DMZ Docs, which uses images taken by Korean documentary photographers every year for its poster, unveiled this year’s poster, titled “Baek Gi-wan’s fist.” The image, taken by photographer Noh Sun-tag, shows the clenched fist of social acti...

Television director Kim Tae-ho is producing a Netflix original entertainment series titled “The Hungry and the Hairy,” starring the artist Rain and comedian Ro Hong-chul, Netflix said in a press release Monday. According to the global streaming giant, while the release date has yet to be decided the program will be another variety show. Kim previously produced two of South Korea’s longest-runnin...

Terrestrial network MBC plans to retrieve the viewer’s trust by installing a new committee, the company said in a press release on Monday. According to the public broadcaster, MBC seeks to make sure all of its content respects universal values, which the company lacked in its coverage of Tokyo Olympics. “The broadcasting fiasco was from all members’ callousness and insensitivity. We will recove...

“Rain and You,” a soundtrack from Korean drama series “Hospital Playlist 2” sung by Lee, also ranked in the top 20 on all Melon charts, including daily, weekly and monthly chart, on Monday. The song was released in June. Lee, who placed third in JTBC’s audition program “Sing Again” in February, has since become a household name. The singer shared his mixed emotions in his Instagram post on Sund...

Indie rock band Say Sue Me's “So Tender” from the soundtrack of Korean drama series “Nevertheless” was released Saturday, according to JTBC Studio. The eighth track on the soundtrack, written and composed by the band, is sung entirely in English like most of the music from the band. Say Sue Me is a surf rock-inspired band from Busan with four members -- vocalist Choi Sumi, guitarist Kim Byung-k...

Unlike movies where a kidnapped character is taken to a deserted factory or empty building, the film takes place in a house. The actors spent a lot of time studying how the sets were made, rehearsing how they would act and analyzing the different emotions in their situations. The selection of the remaining cast was another way to make the film more realistic, Pil added. According to the directo...

Yeondong Grape Festival The Yeongdong Grape Fesitval will take place online, due to the extended COVID-19 pandemic, and is scheduled to run for 30 days starting Aug. 17. Originally offering various programs, including picking, eating and stepping on the grapes and making different products, including wine and chocolate, the festival this year will only hold live commerce events selling grapes. ...

The state broadcaster plans to organize more interviews with Olympic athletes on its main news program, ”KBS News 9,“ a company official said. “The men’s sabre fencing team will appear in the variety show ‘Boss in the Mirror’ and a special program related to the Olympic Games is being produced as well,” the official said. The gold medal-winning men’s sabre fencing team, who earned the nickname ”...