Filming on the volleyball drama One Win (translated title), featuring SONG Kang-ho, PARK Jung-min, and JANG Yoon-ju, wound to a close on February 25. The film is the first of two projects that SONG recently signed on to star in for director SHIN Yeon-shick.SONG plays an unsuccessful volleyball coach who takes on the challenge of leading a woman’s volleyball team that is in search of just one cruci...

The Point Men, an upcoming hostage action-drama from director YIM Soon-rye featuring stars HWANG Jung-min and HYUN Bin, has been sold to 14 territories by Megabox Plus M.The film is based on a real event in Afghanistan that took place in 2007, when 23 South Korean missionaries were captured and held hostage. HYUN Bin will play a National Intelligence Service (NIS) agent who teams up withHWANG Jung...

Celebrated director HUR Jin-ho is set to take part in the 19th Hong Kong-Asia Film Financing Forum (HAF) after his new project The Dinner was selected as one of this year’ 29 participants. HUR’s is the only project from South Korea. The Dinner tells the story of two brothers with differing world views, one a materialistic lawyer, the other an idealistic surgeon, who must set their differences asid...

Despite no major new releases, there was some good news on the charts as business grew 10% week-on-week with 617,000 spectators packing into multiplexes. This was largely thanks to a local word-of-mouth hit that helped keep the local market share very high, at 84% of all sales. After comfortably claiming first place last weekend, although with a depressed COVID Era gross, word of mouth has had a m...

Foot traffic at Korean cinemas remained low over the weekend, especially compared to crowded weekends in China and Japan, but business was nevertheless up 40% compared to the previous weekend with 565,000 tickets sold over the frame. Led by a well-received new entry, local titles dominated the market, accounting for four of the top five films and 83% of all sales. LEE Jong-pil’s 90s-set women-led ...

Thanks to the Chuseok holidays, the Korean box office came roaring back to life in early October. Business shot up 150% from last week’s session, which had already started to show signs of recovery after the late summer COVID spike with a 30% rise from the previous week. With new local titles occupying most of the top five, the domestic market share was a robust 77% of the 1.1 million tickets sold...