Just over a month before its second installment is due to hit theaters, the makers behind the Along with the Gods fantasy epic franchise have announced that they are planning to make the third and fourth installments. The new titles will go build out new stories beyond the webtoon by JOO Ho-min that has served as the source material until now. The films will explore territory that will open the do...

Leading man JUNG Woo-sung and new star KIM Hyang-gi are set to team up for the upcoming court thriller Witness (translated title), the latest film from Punch (2011) director LEE Han. In the film, JUNG will feature as Soon-ho, an unsuccessful attorney who is representing a client in a murder trial. KIM plays Ji-woo, an autistic girl who was the only witness to the crime. JUNG was last seen on scree...

KIM Sae-ron and Don LEE are teaming up for the second time on the upcoming drama Gomtaengi (working title) from director LIM Jin-sun. Their first collaboration was the 2012 serial killer thriller The Neighbors. KIM is on board to play a high school student who is the Gomtaengi of the title. Gomtaengi is a slang word used in Korea to denote slow-witted people. Her character becomes skeptical when h...

The first quarter of 2017 was one of few surprises at the Korean box office but one which demonstrated the industry’s stability, both as a global exhibition market and a local production industry. Though not quite reaching the highs of 2013 (55.47 million) or 2015 (54.56 million), Q1 this year handily exceeded the totals of the last two years, with a sturdy 52.27 million admissions registered duri...

As we enter the least busy movie-going season on the calendar and as much attention is being diverted to looming elections in Korea, business was down another 20% this past weekend, with almost three fifths of tickets going to Hollywood titles. With 39% of sales, Korean films struggled with several titles that opened in the last two weeks almost gone from theaters already. South Korea was one of 8...