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Even the masters who now define Korean cinema had humble, uncertain beginnings. “The Outlaws” (2017) director Kang Yoon-sung’s arduous journey to the director’s chair at the late age of 47 is among the stories collected in the new book “My First Action”, along with the debut tales of 31 top...

'Tazza 4' closes in after topping 100,000 admissions, reaches a 31.6% advance-booking rate over the Chuseok holiday Shots fired in 1974 consume the box office 'Assassins', which probes the events behind the 1974 shooting of the first lady, seized the box-office crown with overwhelming momentum on...

The Netflix series 〈Scandal〉 has released production stills. The series follows Lady Jo, a woman of exceptional talent who is too gifted to spend her life confined by the roles assigned to women in the Joseon era; Jo Won, Joseon's greatest ladies' man; and Hee-yeon, a woman entangled in their...

〈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.

In 〈Assassins〉, rookie reporter Yeong-il, played by Lee Min-ho, emerges as the film’s driving force. A rookie reporter on the social affairs desk, he goes to cover the August 15, 1974 Liberation Day event and witnesses the deaths — first the first lady, and then the female student he had been...

Fragments of distorted memories fuel fierce battle over the truth Actors Yoo Yeon-seok and Seo Hyun-jin reunite after 10 years for the meticulously crafted 'psychological thriller' genre. MBC officially announced on the 22nd that it will premiere the new Friday-Saturday drama 'Liar', starring the...

Artists onstage, left in the blind spot, raise the anchor for rights protection The Korea Musical Actors Association has officially launched to safeguard the practical rights of musical theater actors, whose struggles have long been obscured by the spotlight.

Director Ahn Jae-hoon says he turned to the skies and water in master paintings to shape the visual world of 〈Gills〉, his new animated adaptation of Gu Byeong-mo's novel 『Gills』. Ahn Jae-hoon, known for lyrical animation such as 〈Dream of a Precious Day〉 (2011), 〈Buckwheat Flowers, A Lucky Day, and...

From the audience's perspective, it seems the new momentum actor Roh Jae-won is showing has already begun. Looking at the cast lineup for 〈Made in Korea〉, I found myself wondering whether an actor known for his freewheeling style could adapt to acting within a demanding format — in other words,...