PARK Hoon-jung's New World, the first film for grown-ups to attract over 4 million viewers in 2013, has been receiving a mass of favorable comments from the press since its release in North America on March 22nd. IMDb and Rotten Tomatoes posted psotive comments from renowned press companies as follows:

 

“New World is both less bloody and more thoughtful than most of its genre, the shifting-alliances plot becoming more engrossing as it progresses.” New York Times (Jeannette Catsoulis), “Writer-director Hoon-jung PARK tells this twisty story of internecine warfare within a Korean corporate crime syndicate with patience, elegance and no small amount of bloodshed.” Los Angeles Times (Gary Goldstein), “All that said, no one in American movies has made a crime opera this good in years.” Salon.com (Andrew O'Hehir) and more. The flood of praises proved the potential of New World in the United States.