ARCHIVES - Actor Jeon Doyeon

The tvN series Crash Course in Romance is about to end soon and to allow the return of shining Jeon Doyeon. Playing Nam Haengseon, the owner of the Korean side dish store ‘National Team’, she exhibited the same refreshing candor she had in The Harmonium In My ...

Naver Movie is officially closing, but can it live on in Naver's search bar?

From March 31, 2023, ‘Naver Movie’ (https://movie.naver.com) will be unavailable. This service page from Korea’s leading search engine Naver has been providing information and aggregating audience ratings and critics reviews on new releases since it launched i...

Film Exhibitors Find Survival Strategies for Today and Tomorrow

Could this hint at a new paradigm for the film exhibition industry in the age of the Covid-19 endemic? Or is it the efforts of the cinema to bring the audience back that are suddenly paying off? Avatar: The Way of Water passed the 10-million-admission mark on ...

TRIVIA - HERO, Korea's first original musical film

Hero is the first original musical film to be produced in Korea, based on the original musical of the same name. The film recounts the final year in the life of Ahn Junggeun, a martyr of Korean independence movement against Japan.

ARCHIVES - Actor Kwon Sangwoo

A young man who picked up a brush early on but suddenly fancied seeing himself on screen. Kwon Sangwoo, who was studying art education as he considered that the saddest thing ever was being forgotten, thought he would be remembered longer if he learned acting,...

Three Years Into COVID-19, How are Teenagers Watching Movies?

For the new year, web magazine Korean Cinema took a look into the hearts of the new generation of movie-goers. With this survey, we tried to determine how the COVID-19 pandemic affected the movie consumption habits of teenagers. A total of 10 questions were as...

3 Questions to Predict Korea’s Film Industry in 2023

2022 was the year of recovery. The film exhibition sector, which had collapsed owing to the Covid-19 pandemic, was finally given some time to recover, slowly but surely, starting with the lifting of social distancing rules. In that sense, 2023 should prove to ...

LOCATION <Life is Beautiful> & <Remember>

The musical filmLife is Beautifuldepicts the rollercoaster emotions of the middle aged and maximizes the charm of fantasy through music and dance. A tense revenge drama dealing with the subject of pro-Japan,Remembersets itself in a location where clear histori...

Evaluation and Analysis of Korean Theater in 2022

3 years have passed since the outbreak of the COVID-19 Pandemic, and domestic and overseas film festivals have got back to normal while anticipated films have been released one after another. Although we're not free from wearing masks yet, social distancin...

The U.S. & the UK, Focusing on Reviewing K-Cinema

Now, the news of Korean films winning awards at the world film festival is one of the most familiar news. After Bong Joonho’s PARASITE won the Cannes Palme d'Or and 4 Oscars at the Academy Awards, Decision to Leave, directed by Park Chanwook who won Best D...