KIM Sung-ho Teams Up with Netflix for MOVE TO HEAVEN

KIM Sung-ho, the director of such heartwarming Korean fare as How To Steal A Dog (2014) and Notebook from My Mother (2018), has become the latest local director to team up with the global streamer Netflix for a Korean-language original series. Move to Heaven i...

New Zealand Korean Film Festival Opens Doors to 2018 Edition

The Korean Cinerama Trust and the Korean Embassy in Auckland hosted this year’s New Zealand Korean Film Festival, which opened its doors on October 11th. Also supporting the event are the Korean Film Council (Chairman - OH Seok Geun) and the New Zealand Asia I...

BEAUTIFUL FOOD with PARK Gyu-ri Premieres in Kyoto

NOTEBOOK FROM MY MOTHER also Invited to Japanese Fest A pair of Korean films were invited to the Kyoto International Art and Film Festival this month. The festival featured the world premiere of CHO Sung-kyu’s Beautiful Food, featuring Kara member PARK Gyu-ri,...

OMOK GIRL Web-drama Begins Shooting

Production has begun on the web-drama Omok Girl. The series, which features the traditional Korean games Omok and Badook, centers around a character who was once a Badook child prodigy but now spends her days working a part-time job at a Badook gaming hall. Th...

The 4th Buenos Aires Korean Film Festival Kicks Off on September 7th

The 4th edition of the Buenos Aires Korean Film Festival (Festival de Cine Coreano en Buenos Aires) will kick off its seven day schedule on September 7th at the Cinemark Palermo. Beginning with a screening of KIM Sung-hoon’s spy-action comedy Confidential Assi...

THE WORLD OF US Picks Up GOLDEN GOAT in Poland

YOON Ga-eun’s feature debut The World of Us has triumphed at the International Young Audience Film Festival Ale Kino! in Poland, where it has earned the Golden Goat for Best Feature Film for Children at the festival’s 34th edition. The win is the second consec...

LEE Jong-hyeuk Leads MOTHER’S NOTEBOOK

Following his adaptation of Barbara O’Connor’s novel How To Steal A Dog (2014), director KIM Sung-ho will return with another family drama next year. Mother’s Notebook: Recipe of Memories (literal title) features actor LEE Jong-hyeuk in the lead role. In the f...

GANG Hye-jung and PARK Shin-yang Partner for MY WIFE

Kidnap Thriller from SONG Hae-sung Set in SE Asia Earlier this month, actors GANG Hye-jung and PARK Shin-yang confirmed that they would appear in My Wife, the new film from veteran director SONG Hae-sung. YOON Je-moon (Fists of Legend, 2013) and SONG Seung-he...

TIFF Kids Takes THE WORLD OF US, HOW TO STEAL A DOG

Korean Titles Selected for Toronto Kids International Film Festival Two Korean films have been invited to next month’s TIFF Kids International Film Festival in Toronto. YOON Ga-eun’s The World of Us and KIM Sung-ho’s How To Steal A Dog will join films about c...

Tehran Hosts 4th Korean Film Festival

Korean Quarter Screened in Iran Tehran’s Mellat Cinema Complex played host to the 4th Korean Film Festival in Tehran, which kicked off on Sunday, December 27th and ended on the 30th. Four major Korean films were shown during the event with all screenings free...