Far East Film Festival Stages Yoon Jongbin Retrospective

Korean Films on Show as Udine Prepares Hybrid EventFollowing last year’s online event, the Far East Film Festival (FEFF) in Udine is returning with a hybrid online/offline event later this month. This year’s 23rd edition will feature 11 Korean films, including...

Ha Jungwoo and Hwang Jungmin Head to SURINAME with Yoon Jongbin for Netflix

Stars Reunite with Director for Crime SeriesDirector Yoon Jongbin is partnering with Netlfix for the forthcoming original series Suriname. The project will see the director reunite with stars Ha Jungwoo and Hwang Jungmin, and feature Yoo Yeonseok, Jo Woojin an...

HA Jung-woo and HWANG Jung-min Considering Netflix Project SURINAME

The big-budget Netflix crime drama Suriname (literal title), the first series from director YOON Jong-bin, has offered leading roles to superstar HA Jung-woo and HWANG Jung-min. Representatives for the actors, who have both worked with Director YOON in the pas...

HA Jung-woo Ventures into Horror with THE CLOSET

Though he is still tearing up the box office charts with the smash hit disaster action spectacle Ashfall, Korean superstar HA Jung-woo will be back on screens next month in The Closet, his first ever horror film. HA co-stars with KIM Nam-gil in the picture, wh...

YOON Jong-bin and HAN Jae-duk to Form New Investment and Production Company

The Spy Gone North director YOON Jong-bin is setting up shop with SANAI Pictures head HAN Jae-duk. The director and the producer who have worked on a number of successful projects together will establish an as-yet-unnamed investment and production company. Dir...

THE SPY GONE NORTH Scores Perfect Rotten Tomatoes Score

Following its’ bow at the Cannes Film Festival in May, where it was selected among the Midnight Screenings lineup, director YOON Jong-bin’s espionage drama The Spy Gone North has opened in North America, where it is currently garnering strong reviews from loca...

THE SPY GONE NORTH Infiltrates Foreign Markets

Adding to its promising start in Korea, where it bowed on August 8, the big-budget espionage drama The Spy Gone North is also off to a good run overseas, after scoring a strong per-theater average during its opening in North America, where it kicked off its ru...

LEE Chang-dong Returns to Cannes Competition with BURNING

Two features and one short from Korea are invited to this year’s 71st Cannes Film Festival. Director LEE Chang-dong will return to the Croisette with his first film in eight years while YOON Jong-bin takes a midnight slot with his latest film and a short by KI...

HWANG Jung-min Wraps NK Action-Drama BLACK VENUS

After kicking off on January 24th, HWANG Jung-min and his co-stars LEE Sung-min, CHO Jin-woong, PARK Sung-woong and JU Ji-hoon wrapped six months of production on July 25th for director YOON Jong-bin’s fifth film Black Venus. A North Korea-themed action-drama ...

Busan to Debut New Actor &Actress Awards

Korean Indie Performers to Be Honored For its upcoming 19th edition, the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) is set to introduce a new pair of acting prizes to be given to performers selected across the Korean films presented in the New Currents and Kore...