KOFIC Prepares for COVID-19 Pandemic & Endemic Simultaneously

The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) has started to revive the Korean film industry, which has suffered from COVID-19 for 3 years. Since April, KOFIC has been implementing the 'Human Resources Support Project for Film Production to Overcome COVID-19' to cre...

Director Park Kiyong & Prof. Kim Sunah, Picked as the New chairperson and the Vice-chairperson of Korean Film Council

Park Kiyong, a professor at Dankook University's Graduate School of Culture and Arts, was elected as the new chairman of Korean Film Council. Kim Sunah, a professor at Dankook University, was appointed as the vice-chairman.Korean Film Councilannounced on J...

KoBiz Online Screening Service for BIFAN 2018 Kicks Off

Service Available for 3 Months from July 13 to October 12, 2018 The KoBiz online screening service operated by theKorean Film Council(KOFIC) will feature 47 movies from theBucheon International Fantastic Film Festival(BIFAN), available on its official website ...

2018 KAFA Films Now on the KoBiz Online Screening Service

From April 16th 2018, films from students of the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) is available online. Last year, through a collaboration with Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), the online screening platform offered 33 films from the festival's se...

KOFIC Concludes Reorganization

Korean Film Council(KOFIC) has completed its structural adjustment, with a newly established executive branch. The Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism (minister DO Jong-hwan) has been building a new executive department, beginning with the appointment of ...

KOFIC Hosted KAFA 2018 Graduation Film Festival

The Korean Film Council (KOFIC: Chairperson - OH Seok-geun) hosted the 2018 Graduation Film Festival for the Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) at the Megabox Shinchon from January 26 to 28. The KAFA Graduation Film Festival, which offers audiences the first c...

Director OH Seok-geun was appointed as Chairman of Korean Film Council (KOFIC)

The new chairman ofThe Korean Film Council (KOFIC) was appointed. Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (Minister, DO Jong-hwan) announced this news through a press release on January 5th and said, “We appointed director OH Seok-geun as the new chairman of K...

KAFA FILMS 2017 Set to Showcase Korea’s Next Generation of Filmmakers

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 Prom...

KAFA Holds Film Development Workshops in Ho Chi Minh City

The Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) a division of the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) recently held a series of film development workshops in Vietnam. “We hosted KAFA’s 2017 Film Development Workshops for eight days from August 21st (Mon.) to 28th (Mon.) in Ho ...

KOFIC and KAFA to Hold Director HUR Jin-ho’s Masterclass

Korean Film Council (KOFIC) and Korean Academy of Film Arts (KAFA) will host director HUR Jin-ho masterclass at CGV’s Cine Library in Myeong-dong, on April 14th. The masterclass will be an opportunity to share director HUR’s film world and directing know-how f...