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- Netflix's D.P. characters confront unchanging reality of military in Season 2
- Netflix's popular military drama D.P.is returning for a highly anticipated Season 2, two years after creating a buzz by shedding light on the dark side of South Korea's mandatory military service.Based on Kim Bo-tong's well-received webtoon series, the show follows the Army's Deserte...
- by Yonhap / Jul 28, 2023
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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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- ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU Invited to Dublin International Film Festival
- Ryoo Seungwan’s hit action-drama Escape from Mogadishu (2021) has been invited to this year’s Dublin International Film Festival. Also selected for the Irish film event is Kimo Jisook’s short film Hairy Monster.Released in the summer of 2021, Escape from Mogadishu became the year’s biggest homegrown...
- by Pierce Conran / Feb 10, 2022
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- Hwang Jungmin and Jeon Doyeon reunite in Kill Boksoon
- 17 years after You Are My Sunshine (2005), HWANG Jungmin and JEON Doyeon are set to reunite in the film KILL Boksoon (literal title), a Netflix original. From The Merciless (2017) director BYUN Sunghyun, the project will also feature SUL Kyunggu, KOO Kyohwan and E Som. The streaming feature will fol...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 21, 2021
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- ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU Tops Blue Dragon Film Awards with 6 Wins
- Ryoo Seungwan’s action-drama Escape from Mogadishu came away as the big winner of this year’s 42nd Blue Dragon Film Awards. The box office hit picked up six awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Ryoo.It was Ryoo’s third Best Director win at the awards, following The Unjust (2010) and Vet...
- by Pierce Conran / Dec 02, 2021
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- Korea Selects ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU for Oscars’ Best International Feature Section
- Ryoo Seungwan Action Hit Follows in the Footsteps of PARASITEDirector Ryoo Seungwan’s summer action hit Escape from Mogadishu has been selected as this year’s Korean submission to the Best International Feature category of the Academy Awards.The film follows Woo Minho’s political drama The Man Stand...
- by Pierce Conran / Oct 13, 2021
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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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- 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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- TRAIN TO BUSAN Sequel Goes into Production
- Peninsula (translated title), the hotly anticipated follow-up to the global horror-thriller hit TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016), entered production on June 24. YEON Sang-ho is once again in the director’s chair while the brand-new cast features GANG Dong-won, LEE Jung-hyun, LEE Re, KWON Hae-hyo, KIM Min-jae a...
- by Pierce Conran / Jul 10, 2019