ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU Tops Blue Dragon Film Awards with 6 Wins

Ryoo Seungwan’s action-drama Escape from Mogadishu came away as the big winner of this year’s 42nd Blue Dragon Film Awards. The box office hit picked up six awards, including Best Film and Best Director for Ryoo.It was Ryoo’s third Best Director win at the awa...

BOOK OF FISH and MOGADISHU Win 4 Prizes Each at Korean Film Critics Awards

Ryoo Seungwan Picks Up Best Director, Lee Joonik’s Film Takes Best FilmLee Joonik’s The Book of Fish and Ryoo Seungwan’s Escape from Mogadishu triumphed at the 41st Korean Film Critics Association Awards, with each picking up four prizes. Lee’s film won the Be...

ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU Takes Best Film at Buil Film Awards

Yoo Ahin and Jun Jongseo Win Acting Honors at Busan-Held AwardsRyoo Seungwan’s hit action-thriller Escape from Mogadishu came away from the recent 30th Buil Film Awards with the Best Film Award. Ryoo’s film, which is the highest-grossing film at the Korean box...

KCCNY Celebrates 40 Years with Special Film Events

To celebrate its 40th anniversary, the Korean Cultural Center New York (KCCNY) is putting on a series of cultural events throughout 2019, which include a pair of events related to Korean cinema. This month, Along with the Gods producer WON Dong-yeon visited Ne...

ALONG WITH THE GODS to Be Remade as A VR Ride Film

Web comic Along With The God will have its VR version, following its film and TV series adaptations. Based on the second-most-viewed movie in Korea, with a total of 14.41 million admissions in the local box office, Along With The Gods VR will be a film made sp...

THE FORTRESS Tops Korean Film Producers Association Awards

The Korean Film Producers Association (KFPA) handed their top prize this year to the period siege drama The Fortress, from director HWANG Dong-hyuk. HWANG’s film also took the prizes for Best Editing (NAM Na-young) and Best Sound for CHOI Tae-young, who previo...

CHANG Wraps Sci-Fi FATAL COUNTDOWN: RESET

Korea-China Collaboration Produced by Jackie CHAN Director CHANG recently completed production on Fatal Countdown: Reset in Busan. A Korea-China co-production, the film is a science fiction tale of which executive producer is Jackie CHAN. After three months, ...

Jackie CHAN Co-Production Kicks Off in Busan

CHANG at the Helm of FATAL COUNTDOWN: RESET Global superstar Jackie CHAN, the second-highest paid actor in the world in 2015 according to Forbes, has taken a supervisory executive role on the new Korean-Chinese co-production Fatal Countdown: Reset, which rece...

ASSASSINATION Tops Blue Dragon Awards

Best Director for VETERAN’s RYOO Seung-wan The Blue Dragon Film Awards held their 36th edition on Thursday evening, handing out their Grand Prize to CHOI Dong-hoon’s Colonial Era action film Assassination while Lee Joon-ik’s Joseon Era drama The Throne came a...

THE THRONE Tops Korean Association of Film Critics Awards

Hit Period Drama Takes Home 3 KAFC Prizes LEE Joon-ik’s hit period film The Throne , starring SONG Kang-ho and YOO Ah-in, came up tops at the 35th Korean Association of Film Critics Awards (KAFC), where it picked up the Best Film prize, in addition to honors ...