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※This interview with 〈Hope〉 actor Jo In-sung continues from Part 1. Imagining and acting opposite an imagined being must have been a major challenge. In particular, when Seong-gi confronts a gigantic alien intelligence late in the film, his subtle eye movements and tiny facial shifts were striking.

Few actors throw themselves at the impossible the way Jo In-sung does. He runs, hangs on, endures and throws his body into action. In director Na Hong-jin's new film 〈Hope〉, Jo In-sung delivers raw, unpolished action, exuding a wildness and animal instinct as he faces an extraterrestrial...

※ This interview with Jung Hoyeon of 〈HOPE〉 continues from Part 1. Director Na Hong-jin is reputed not to compromise on set. What was it like to experience his filming process firsthand. As a relatively new actor, I felt his unwillingness to compromise was a blessing.

Few actors have had a debut as striking as Jung Ho-yeon’s. Jung moved from top-tier modeling into acting and made a notable acting debut with 〈Squid Game〉. Now she is about to make her film debut in 〈Hope〉. Directed by Na Hong-jin, the filmmaker behind hits such as 〈The Chaser〉, 〈The Yellow Sea〉,...

※The interview with 〈Hope〉 director Na Hong-jin continues from Part 1. ※This interview contains spoilers and interpretations of the ending. Before the film was finished, you said that the actors who play the aliens—including Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander—are the protagonists.

Few Korean films this year have arrived with expectations as high as 〈Hope〉. The film 〈Hope〉 has, true to its name, been framed as a much‑needed sign of hope for the Korean film industry and carries enormous expectations. Each of those factors has helped make the film a major draw.

Director Na Hong-jin said he turned to aliens in 〈Hope〉 after exploring supernatural beings in 〈The Wailing〉 (2016). Speaking with Cineplay in Jongno District, Seoul, on the afternoon of the 7th, director Na Hong-jin discussed the release of 〈Hope〉 and the story behind the film.

From 3. 7% to 13. 6%, the completion of a 'reverse-sweep miracle'JTBC weekend drama 'Rookie Employee Chairman Kang' ended its long run with a remarkable upward viewership trajectory. According to Nielsen Korea, the final episode (Episode 12) aired the previous day posted a 13.

Forty-five years into his career, Choi Min-sik can still reveal a new side. In Netflix’s 〈Notes from the Last Row〉, he trades his usual untouchable charisma for the exposed, raw face of an intellectual consumed by an inferiority complex — a petty man trapped in his own world and steeped in a sense...

〈Hana Korea〉 tells one of Korean cinema’s most familiar stories in one of its most unfamiliar forms: a film by a Danish director, set in Seoul, about a North Korean defector. At times it unfolds like a Scandinavian film, yet its setting and faces are unmistakably Seoul, with Kim Min‑ha at the...