Despite the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, the London Korean Film Festival, which was celebrating this year its 15th edition, boasts another success, receiving an enthusiastic response from fans of Korean films living in the UK. As the event opted for online/in-person hybrid screenings, the event recorded more than 3,000 online reservations and received significant media attention. The BBC, but...

Korean social drama Clean Up, a feature presentation of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) from debut director KWON Man-gi, and Chinese thriller Savage by CUI Si Wei have picked up the New Currents Awards from this year’s 23rd Busan International Film Festival. The New Currents jury, led by KIM Hong-joon, Chairman of the Chungmuro International Musical Film Festival, called Clean Up “original,...