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- Actors Lee Youngae & Kim Sangkyung, Appointed as Jury Members for the Actor & Actress of the Year Award at the 27th Busan International Film Festival
- The 27th Busan International Film Festival, which will be held for 10 days from October 5 to 14, has appointed actor Lee Youngae and actor Kim Sangkyung as jury members for the ‘Actor & Actress of the Year Award.’ The Actor & Actress of the Year Award is presented to one new male actor and o...
- by Park Hyejin / Sep 23, 2022
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- JUNG Hae-in, KOO Kyo-hwan, KIM Sung-kyun and SON Suk-ku Sign Up For Netflix Show D.P.
- Coin Locker Girl (2015) director HAN Jun-hee has locked the cast for his forthcoming six-part Netflix Original series D.P., based on a Korean webtoon by KIM Bo-tong, will star JUNG Hae-in, KOO Kyo-hwan, KIM Sung-kyun and SON Suk-ku. D.P., which stands for ‘Deserter Pursuit’, will focus on an army un...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 15, 2020
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- LEE Joo-young to Receive Rising Star Asia Award at NYAFF
- Actress LEE Joo-young will receive the Screen International Rising Star Asia Award at this year’s 19th New York Asian Film Festival (NYAFF), which kicked off on August 28. LEE initially made her screen debut in 2012, in the short film Encounter, but it was in 2016 that she first came to broader atte...
- by Pierce Conran / Sep 07, 2020
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- PENINSULA Sets August 7 Launch in North America
- YEON Sang-ho’s Train to Busan (2016) sequel Peninsula has just opened in several Asian markets and is now set to invade North America, where local distributor Well Go USA has announced that it will be released on August 7. Part of this year’s Cannes selection, Peninsula, which is being billed as ‘Tr...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 27, 2020
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- PENINSULA Set to Launch in 185 Countries
- Peninsula, the highly anticipated sequel to YEON Sang-ho’s global phenomenon TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016), is poised to be another breakthrough success after foreign sale agent Contents Panda announced that the film has been presold to 185 countries across the globe. The film will open in Korea, as well as...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 13, 2020
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- JUNG Jin-woo, AHN Ji-hye, LEE Min-ji and CHO Sun-ki to Appear in SLATE
- Sophomore Film from GANG Director JO Ba-reun JIN Jung-woo, AHN Ji-hye, LEE Min-ji and CHO Sun-ki have signed on to star in the film Slate (literal title), the sophomore film of GANG (2019) director JO Ba-reun. Slate will follow the story of an actor who dreams of becoming a leading man, until one da...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 21, 2020
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- MAGGIE Picks Up Grand Prix at Osaka Asian Film Festival
- Director YI Ok-seop’s debut film Maggie (2018) has picked up the Grand Prix at this year’s 13th edition of the Osaka Asian Film Festival (OAFF). The film debuted in the Korean Cinema Today section of last October’s Busan International Film Festival and stars rising indie star LEE Joo-young and veter...
- by Pierce Conran / Mar 25, 2019
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- Korean Romcom SHALL WE DO IT AGAIN Begins Shoot
- Previously announced as Guy Guy Girl, the romantic comedy Shall We Do It Again (working title) began shooting on May 10. Rising star PARK Kyung-hye has joined the cast which already confirmed the participation of KWON Sang-woo, LEE Jung-hyun and LEE Jong-hyeuk. The three main stars play a three-pers...
- by Pierce Conran / Jun 11, 2018
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- ANARCHIST FROM COLONY Leads Chunsa Film Art Awards Nominees
- The Chunsa Film Art Awards has announced the nominations for its 23rd edition, which will take place at the COEX Auditorium in Seoul on the evening of May 18. Leading this year’s nominations is LEE Joon-ik’s colonial era trial drama Anarchist from Colony (2017), which received nods in five categorie...
- by Pierce Conran / May 10, 2018
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- BAMSEOM PIRATES Wins Wildflower Grand Prize
- JUNG Yoon-suk’s sophomore documentary Bamseom Pirates Seoul Inferno (2017) became the first ever documentary film to pick up the Grand Prize at the Wildflower Film Awards, which held their fifth edition on Thursday, April 12. A documentary following a punk band and their experiences with government ...
- by Pierce Conran / Apr 24, 2018