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...

MOVING ON Director YUN Dan-bi

Moving On follows two young siblings sent for a summer vacation to their grandfather's house but also relates to the return of two middle-aged brother and sister to their father’s home. As the situations depicted in the movie stir up universal memories, Mo...

BLACK MONEY Director CHUNG Ji-young

CHUNG Ji-youngmainly stood over the last few years in a position where he was much in demand. Having produced documentaries with a strong sense of timeliness and named director of film events such as theBucheon International Fantastic Film Festival(BiFan) and ...

PRINCESS AYA Director LEE Sung-gang

Leading Korean animation author LEE Sung-gang, who made My Beautiful Girl, Mari, Yobi, The Five-Tailed Fox and Kai, took on a new challenge with his fourth feature, Princess Aya. More specifically, he incorporated 3D animation and the ScreenX technology into t...

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...