PARK Jung-bum’s third film Height of the Wave has picked up the Special Jury Prize in competition at the 72nd Locarno International Film Festival. The film stars LEE Seung-yeon (House of Hummingbird) as a police officer who is restationed to an out-of-the-way island with her daughter following her divorce. Once there she tries to help an orphaned girl and come to grips with the strange community o...

Actors KWON Sang-woo, LEE Jung-hyun and LEE Jong-hyeuk will join forces in the upcoming romantic comedy title Guy Guy Girl (translated title), which will mark the latest directorial outing of PARK Yong-jip. KWON will next be seen on screens in a sequel to the 2015 Chuseok investigation comedy THE ACCIDENTAL DETECTIVE, which is currently in post-production. The original was the last big screen proj...

LEE Jung-hyun has found her follow-up project to last year’s World War II action drama The Battleship Island, after signing on to play the leading role in the forthcoming thriller Secret Agreement (translated title). The star will take on the role of Seo Joo-ha, the granddaughter of a conglomerate chairman who runs her own patisserie. Together with another woman, she engages in a ‘secret agreement...

KAFA FILMS 2017, a special program showcasing feature films from the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA), is taking place at CGV Apgujeong, CGV Myeongdong and Indieplus in the Busan Cinema Center until November 22nd. Under the slogan ‘Feature Debut Show of Promising Filmmakers’, KAFA FILMS 2017 will screen SONG Tae-gyum’s debut film Baby Beside Me and YOO Ji-young’s comedy drama Duck Town from the ...

Three Films supported by Korean Film Council (KOFIC) meet audience through various channels. The KOFIC has managed various kinds of supporting project including subtitle support, post-production support and technical support. A barrier-free version of SPLIT, selected by KOFIC’s Subtitle Translation and Descriptive Video Service Support Program, has screened since November 19th. Starring YOO Ji-tae...

Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) is holding a special event in September to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its feature film directing program, called “KAFA: Ten-year-old Story.” For promotional ambassadors, LEE Je-hoon of Bleak Night (2011) and KIM Go-eun of Canola (2016) have been appointed. KAFA was established by Korean Film Council (KOFIC) in 1984 to produce distinguished human resources...

Korean Films Lord Over Marketplace During the last weekend of the summer holiday period in Korea, local films retained the advantage with a commanding 81% of the marketplace, as the top three entries were homebred, while overall admissions stood at 3.14 million. Performing a third victory lap atop the charts after a 40% post-holiday weekend dip was RYOO Seung-wan’s action-comedy Veteran, which add...

Things keep looking up for the local industry as admissions over the weekend reached 4.82 million, setting a new benchmark for the year. Coming up tops again following an 18% increase, Veteran added 2.25 million viewers (USD 15.33 million) to a powerful 12-day haul of 6.64 million spectators (USD 44.16 million). With strong word of mouth and the help of Liberation Day falling on Saturday, RYOO Seu...