What strategies do Korea’s international sales agents have in the COVID-19 era?

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, major film markets such as Cannes and Hong Kong moved online. In this unprecedented situation, how are sales agents promoting and selling Korean films abroad? This week we sit down with Content Panda international sal...

PENINSULA Art Director, "I gave it the impression of a deserted city"

TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016) and Peninsula come from the same root, but the visual appeals they convey are pretty different. If the former focused on the 'realistic representation' of the interior of a KTX train, the spaces in Peninsula are created as a visio...

SEO Eun-young, Director of GO BACK

‘I have kidnapped the child. If you want to save her, make a donation to the welfare center’. This is the content of the message sent by a kidnapper as revealed in the news. Ji-won (HA Yun-Kyung), a new police recruit who is investigating the case, takes an in...

#ALIVE Director of Photography SOHN Won-ho

Film theaters are alive. One title managed to draw more than 1 million spectators to the cinemas that were afflicted by a severe slowdown in the aftermath of Covid-19, and the hero of the day is CHO Il-hyeong’s #ALIVE. As a matter of fact, this is the first mo...

PARK Tae-hoon, CEO of leading Korean VOD service Watcha

The Watcha app is well-known by all movie fans in Korea. The whole process of watching a movie, rating it in stars, and getting recommendations for titles based on one’s tastes is now established as one way to appreciate films. Watcha, which started off as a p...

LEE Hee-ju, Head of Policy Planning at WAVVE

'WAVVE' is an Internet-based OTT service jointly operated by the three major Korean terrestrial broadcasting companies (KBS, MBC and SBS) and telecommunications operator SK Telecom. It was launched on September 18 last year. This TV content service ben...

Director LEEKIL Bora, guest of the Berlinale Talents Program

LEEKIL Bora, who made her debut with the 2015 documentary film Glittering Hands, is back in theaters five years later with the film Untold, winner of a special mention from the jury of the BIFF Mecenat Award of the Busan International Film Festival in 2018, wh...

MOVE THE GRAVE Director JEONG Seung-o

Four estranged sisters are reunited after hearing the news that their father’s grave is about to be moved. They hop on an antiquated purple old car to find the eldest son, who is actually the youngest among the siblings, an old nuisance beloved of all the adul...

SON Jae-gon, Director of SECRET ZOO

A zoo on the brink of closure, with only four employees and not a single animal left. The newly appointed director and the remaining workers set out to save the zoo with the help of costumes, by posing as the resident animals. Secret Zoo’s unique premise origi...

AN OLD LADY Director LIM Sun-ae

LIM Sun-ae’s debut feature An Old Lady(2019)follows 69-year-old Hyo-jeong (YE Soo-jung), a victim of sexual assault committed by a young man, as she sets out to report the incident and keep up the fight.The film addresses the rights of the female elderly popul...