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    Hong Sangsoo
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    HONG Sangsoo is a Korean director with international presence and one perhaps most loved in the international film festival circuit. One of the most original directors who possess their own language of filmmaking, HONG burst onto the Korean movie scene literally out of nowhere with his feature debut, <The Day a Pig Fell into a Well>(1995), which shook the Korean filmmaking industry. In the following years, graduation film screening sessions at many of Korea’s film scho... expand
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  • Locarno Takes a Run at THE FIRST LAP Jul 21, 2017
  • Director KIM Dae-hwan’s sophomore film The First Lap has been invited to screen in the ‘Concorso Cineasti del Presente' (Filmmakers of the Present) Competition at next month’s 70th Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland. It is the only Korean film that has been invited to Locarno this year. The First Lap was one of the three Jeonju Cinema Projects that premiered at this spring’s Je...
  • 65 Countries to Meet Hong Sangsoo’s THE DAY AFTER Jun 27, 2017
  • Hong Sangsoo’s latest film The Day After will be released around the globe after being sold to 65 territories. Among those countries will be France, where it will be released theatrically. The film already had screenings in France when it played in the competition section of this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film is being repped internationally by boutique sales agent Finecut, who related that...
  • KANG Ha-neul, GIM Mu-yeol Finish NIGHT OF MEMORIES Jun 23, 2017
  • Night of Memories (working title), a new mystery-thriller featuring young actors KANG Ha-neul and GIM Mu-yeol, completed its three-month shoot on June 8th. The film is the latest project from director ZHANG Hang-jun and will be distributed locally by Megabox Inc. and Kiwi Company Co., Ltd. The story follows Yoo-seok (GIM Moo-yeol), who returns with no memory after being kidnapped for 19 days. His ...
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  • Korean Film Night Held During 70th Cannes Film Festival May 29, 2017
  • The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) hosted the Korean Film Night during this year’s 70th Cannes Film Festival in order to celebrate the Korean films invited to the festival and to promote exchanges between Korean and international film professionals. The event took place on Monday, May 22nd from 9:30pm onwards and featured around 650 guests. However, this year’s event was not just one of jubilation as...
  • A Happy Feast of JIMFF and KoBiz Online Screening Aug 22, 2016
  • KoBiz Online Screening for Jecheon International Music & Film Festival 2016 to Open on August 25 Even the boiling hot weather was not quite as hot as the passion of devoted fans to Jecheon International Music & Film Festival (JIMFF). JIMFF has finally closed its 12th edition after successfully weaving great memories of wonderful music with romantic groove of summer, in the setting of Che...
  • Estonia and South Korea Sign Co-operation Memorandum Nov 11, 2013
  • A new memorandum of mutual understanding will be signed by Estonia and South Korea during the Industry Days market event held in conjunction with this year’s Black Nights International Film Festival in Tallinn (POFF). The agreement, which will be the first of its kind between South Korea and a nation from Northern or Eastern Europe, is to be signed by the Director of the Estonian Film Institute, E...
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  • SPIDER-MAN Confidently Slings into First Jul 11, 2017
  • Ticket sales doubled as the summer season finally kicked into high gear with the arrival of the monsoon season and a major new franchise entry which drew almost record crowds but left slim pickings for holdovers. 3.18 million seats were filled, with Hollywood accounting for 88% of business. Spider-Man: Homecoming scored a franchise best opening for the webslinger, doubling the opening score of The...
  • THE PRISON Fails to Lock Up BEAUTY AND THE BEAST Mar 27, 2017
  • As two titles fought for supremacy, it was a tight race at the top of the charts in Korea as business ticked up 20% over last week to 2.53 million admissions. It was an equally tight race for market share dominance, with Hollywood films barely nudging out domestic ones 49% to 48%. Though it did so by only a nose, Disney’s blockbuster-in-the-making Beauty and the Beast had a magical sophomore frame...
  • THE MARTIAN Rockets to 1st Place Oct 14, 2015
  • With the help of Hangul (Korean alphabet) Day on Friday, business saw an uptick over the weekend, with 3.24 million viewers bustling into theaters, many of them looking to catch the latest Hollywood space drama to hit local screens. Locked out of the top two spots, Korean films saw their market share slide to 30%. Following the success of Gravity in 2013 and particularly Interstellar last year, w...
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