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Ko-pick: Korean Talent Working Overseas
With the success of Korean cinema over the past two decades, it has seen a growing number of professionals from the industry working in Hollywood and elsewhere as the pool of talent grows. Famous examples include Park Chan-wook who made his Hollywood debutStok...
Ko-pick: Korea’s Sports Films
South Korea like many other countries has a passion for sports. Baseball continues to be a popular game among both male and female fans, while soccer grows in popularity – partly due to Korea’s very own Son Heung-min playing such a prominent role in Tottenham ...
Ko-pick: Korean Horror Comedy Films
Handsome Guys directed by Nam Dong-hyeop has attracted critical buzz in Korea for its mixing of genres, bringing together elements of the slasher, horror, and comedy genres. Although its box office sales are not massively huge as the industry attempts to stage...
Ko-pick: BIFAN Spotlights the “One and Only Son Yejin”
One of Asia’s top genre festivals, The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) kicks off its 28th edition on July 4th opening with Rose Glass’ Love Lies Bleeding (2024). Over the course of the event, it will screen a total of 225 titles from 49 c...
Ko-pick: Introducing Korea’s Leading Audio Studios
Film as a visual medium inevitably means that much focus is spent on aesthetics – the use of cinematography, visual effects, lighting, and choreography, among others. But sound is equally important requiring immense skill and innovation. Technology is central ...
Ko-pick: Korean War Films
On June 25, 1950, North Korea invaded the South initiating the Korean War that would continue until July 1953 with the Korean Armistice Agreement. This month marks 74 years since the beginning of the Korean War, sometimes dubbed the forgotten war because it wa...
Ko-pick: Korea’s Film Franchises
The Roundup: Punishment (2024) starring and produced by Don Lee recently made history marking the first time a third film of a series had surpassed 10 million admissions making it a so-called “triple 10m” franchise. The series of films that center on an unorth...
Ko-pick: The Rise of K-Animation
While Korean animation is somewhat overshadowed by the animated film industries of Japan and Hollywood, it has long featured in Korea’s film and wider content industry in different forms. The first feature film was released in 1967 with Shin Dong-hun’s A Story...
Ko-pick: Korea’s Underwater Photography
With the growing prominence of Korean films on the global stage over the past two decades they have also grown in scale.Tentpoles financed by the studios have been able to successfully compete with Hollywood blockbusters delivering much of the spectacle seen i...
Ko-pick: Korea’s First Academy-Award Winning Performer Youn Yuh-Jung
From May 17-25, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures (AMMP) in California are screening eight films featuring Youn Yuh-jung including Woman of Fire (1971), A Good Lawyer’s Wife (2003) and Canola (2016). This follows a retrospective of Song Kang-ho that took p...