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Chuseok has arrived, and with it comes a wave of Korean releases vying for holiday audiences over the long break. A variety of movies are opening now, each hoping to capture viewers during the holiday. CinePLAY reporters previewed three titles that have drawn the most attention and anticipation.

The Korean Film Council, chaired by Han Sang-joon, and the Korean Academy of Film Arts, led by director Cho Keun-sik and known as KAFA, will run the ‘Airport Cinema Club’ from Sept. 22 through Oct. 19 in the domestic terminal’s third-floor general waiting area at Gimhae International Airport.

〈My First Action〉, a two-volume nonfiction essay vividly recounting the arduous debut journeys of 31 leading directors who have shaped South Korea's film industry, will be published Sept. 25. The book tells the stories of the anxious, fiercely competitive years these directors spent as aspiring...

※ This interview with actor Lee Min-ho about 〈Assassins 〉 continues from Part 1. In the film, you worked with Shim Eun-kyung, who plays Lee Kang-ja, the character who assists Yeong-il in Japan. What was it like acting with her. Shim Eun-kyung is actually very shy. We did not have long conversations.

Free to all visitors, with no boarding pass required, from Sept. 22 for one month to mark KAFA feature-film program’s 20th anniversary Gimhae International Airport is being transformed into a giant movie theater.

C'est Si Bon's Lee Baek-chun dies at 93; Jo Young-nam mourns 60 years of Ddolgang Former TBC PD pioneered Korea's acoustic-guitar movement in 1964; funeral procession set for 7 a.m. on the 23rd Lee Baek-chun, a popular-music critic who served as a mentor to Korean 'folk music' in the 1960s and '70s...

Actor Park Hae-il is returning to theaters with 〈Assassin 〉, a Chuseok release that revisits the 1974 killing of South Korea’s first lady through the eyes of a detective and two reporters. The film reconstructs that incident from the perspectives of Detective Cheol-gu (Yoo Hae-jin), social affairs...

One destination, five hidden agendas. 〈Family Trip〉, a road movie about a family closer to strangers than relatives, held a well-attended press and distribution screening at 4:30 p. m. Tuesday, Sept. 15, at Lotte Cinema Konkuk University Entrance.

[First Reaction] ​ Family Trip, the first screen starring role in the 44-year acting career of Lee Hwi-hyang, beloved as the godmother of Korean television, and the directorial debut of Kim Jeong-tae, a “10 million-viewer actor” who has helped lead Korean cinema, opens Sept. 30.

“If horizontal film is a landscape painting, the vertical frame is a portrait. You can focus more deeply on a character’s inner life, and on set every actor gets a solo shot — it becomes a kind of liberated space for cinema where everyone stands equal.