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...

Don LEE and YOON Kye-sang Head to Crime City

Production began on February 27th for Crime City (translated title), a new crime noir featuring stars Don LEE (aka MA Dong-seok) and YOON Kye-sang. At the helm is filmmaker KANG Yoon-seong, who has been working to bring the project, his first narrative feature...

KCCUK Hosts Special HA Jung-woo Showcase

The Korean Cultural Center UK (KCCUK) has been staging a ‘Year of 4 Actors’ event throughout 2013 and HA Jung-woo will be the fourth and final star to visit the UK next week. The A-list actor will attend a screening of his summer hit The Terror, LIVE in London...

Showbox sells Busan opening film Always to Japan

  Major Korean distributor Showbox/Mediaplex has sold SONG Il-gon’s melodrama Always, the 16th Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) opening film, to Japan’s Pony Canyon.   The film tells the fatal story of a former boxer and a blind girl who fal...