- Korean Film News
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- Far East Film Festival Stages Yoon Jongbin Retrospective
- Korean Films on Show as Udine Prepares Hybrid EventFollowing last year’s online event, the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine is returning with a hybrid online/offline event later this month. This year’s 23rd edition will feature 11 Korean films, including a retrospective on director Yoon Jongbi...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 21, 2021
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- Ha Jungwoo and Hwang Jungmin Head to SURINAME with Yoon Jongbin for Netflix
- Stars Reunite with Director for Crime SeriesDirector Yoon Jongbin is partnering with Netlfix for the forthcoming original series Suriname. The project will see the director reunite with stars Ha Jungwoo and Hwang Jungmin, and feature Yoo Yeonseok, Jo Woojin and Park Haesoo.Suriname, which is based o...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 04, 2021
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- HA Jung-woo and HWANG Jung-min Considering Netflix Project SURINAME
- The big-budget Netflix crime drama Suriname (literal title), the first series from director YOON Jong-bin, has offered leading roles to superstar HA Jung-woo and HWANG Jung-min. Representatives for the actors, who have both worked with Director YOON in the past, have confirmed that they are looking ...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 31, 2020
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- HA Jung-woo Ventures into Horror with THE CLOSET
- Though he is still tearing up the box office charts with the smash hit disaster action spectacle Ashfall, Korean superstar HA Jung-woo will be back on screens next month in The Closet, his first ever horror film. HA co-stars with KIM Nam-gil in the picture, which marks the directorial debut of KIM K...
- by Pierce Conran / Jan 13, 2020
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- YOON Jong-bin and HAN Jae-duk to Form New Investment and Production Company
- The Spy Gone North director YOON Jong-bin is setting up shop with SANAI Pictures head HAN Jae-duk. The director and the producer who have worked on a number of successful projects together will establish an as-yet-unnamed investment and production company. Director YOON, who got his start with the a...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 30, 2018
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- THE SPY GONE NORTH Scores Perfect Rotten Tomatoes Score
- Following its’ bow at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where it was selected among the Midnight Screenings lineup, director YOON Jong-bin’s espionage drama The Spy Gone North has opened in North America, where it is currently garnering strong reviews from local critics. The critical consensus websit...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 21, 2018
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- THE SPY GONE NORTH Infiltrates Foreign Markets
- Adding to its promising start in Korea, where it bowed on August 8, the big-budget espionage drama The Spy Gone North is also off to a good run overseas, after scoring a strong per-theater average during its opening in North America, where it kicked off its run in a pair of theaters on August 10. Th...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 21, 2018
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- LEE Chang-dong Returns to Cannes Competition with BURNING
- Two features and one short from Korea are invited to this year’s 71st Cannes Film Festival. Director LEE Chang-dong will return to the Croisette with his first film in eight years while YOON Jong-bin takes a midnight slot with his latest film and a short by KIM Cheol-hwi is invited to the Critics’ W...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 23, 2018
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- HWANG Jung-min Wraps NK Action-Drama BLACK VENUS
- After kicking off on January 24th, HWANG Jung-min and his co-stars LEE Sung-min, CHO Jin-woong, PARK Sung-woong and JU Ji-hoon wrapped six months of production on July 25th for director YOON Jong-bin’s fifth film Black Venus. A North Korea-themed action-drama set in the 1990s, the project, which wil...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 03, 2017
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- Busan to Debut New Actor &Actress Awards
- Korean Indie Performers to Be Honored For its upcoming 19th edition, the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) is set to introduce a new pair of acting prizes to be given to performers selected across the Korean films presented in the New Currents and Korean Cinema Today – Visions sections. Eac...
- by Pierce Conran / Aug 27, 2014