MY PUNCH-DRUNK BOXER Director JUNG Hyuk-ki

My Punch-Drunk Boxer was born from the sound of a janggu (a Korean traditional hourglass-shaped double-headed drum) heard by chance on a college campus. Actor CHO Hyun-chul, who was learning boxing back then, was in the midst of demonstrating a shadowboxing ro...

MOONLIT WINTER director LIM Dae-hyung

“Unlike my last movie, this time I wanted to make a mother-daughter story” This year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) concluded with an urban panorama covered in snow. Selected as the festival’s closing film, LIM Dae-hyung’s Moonlit Winter indeed tel...

CHOI Hee-seo of OUR BODY

CHOI Hee-seo, who was dubbed the new face of Korean cinema after playing Fumiko KANEKO in LEE Joon-ik’s Anarchist from the Colony, is back on screen with Our Body, which earned her Actress of the Year at the 23rd Busan International Film Festival in 2018. Our ...

CHEER UP, MR. LEE Director LEE Gae-byok

LEE Gae-byok, director of the comedy LUCK-KEY(2016), is back with his new title CHEER UP, MR. LEE. The film shows what happens when a man and the daughter he never knew he had suddenly met one day and go on a trip together to an unfamiliar city. This film has ...

HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD Director KIM Bora

The movie House of Hummingbird, which is now called in Korea “2019’s best debut” with its 25 awards nabbed from film festivals all over the world, is finally getting a theatrical release. The film, which has just been released in Korea on August 29 and is abou...

THE HOUSE OF US Director YOON Ga-eun

Having drawn significant buzz in major film festivals around the world such as the Berlinale with her short film Sprout (2013) and her feature-length debut The World of Us (2016), which explored the secretive psychology of elementary schoolers, YOON Ga-eun is ...

PANG Eun-jin, Director of the PyeongChang International Peace Film Festival

The 1st PyeongChang International Peace Film Festival (PIPFF) will run from August 16 to 20 in and around the city of Gangneung, PyeongChang County, in the Province of Gangwondo. The event is being supervised by PresidentMOON Sung-keun, actor and son of the la...

KWAK Sin-ae, CEO of PARASITE Production Company Barunson E&A

*This article contains spoilers for PARASITE. Coming on stage at the Cannes Film Festival with Director BONG Joon-ho and lead actor SONG Kang-ho to receive the Palme d’Or this year was KWAK Sin-ae, CEO of Barunson E&A, the production company that supervise...

KANG Yun-sung, Director of LONG LIVE THE KING

He might have had to wait 17 years to see his first film coming out, but his sophomore movie hit theaters less than 2 years later. KANG Yun-sung, who brought to the screen a variety of talent and actors and offered an interesting new take on a familiar genre w...

LEE Jung-eun, Actress in PARASITE

* This article contains spoilers for the movie. Moon-gwang, the housekeeper of the mansion in BONG Joon-ho’s PARASITE, is a character who carries a critical secret that radically changes the flow of the story. If you happen to be somewhat familiar with the fac...