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Chilling insight drawn from experience, on the line between escape and confrontation Selected for the competition section of the 31st Busan International Film Festival , That Day’s Tae-joo is a finely crafted work that sharply captures the anxiety of modern people trapped by others’ scrutiny and...

Tracing lost blood ties through a stranger’s lens Tanja Taekyung Inwol Sørensen, who was adopted to Denmark at 2 months old in 1982, came to the 31st Busan International Film Festival with 'Home Sick: At the End of the Sea', an autobiographical documentary tracing her roots.

Box-office prospects were already more or less lost, yet 〈Digger〉 is earning strong reviews from audiences. Of course, some viewers dislike it as critics did before release, but in South Korea (as of Oct. 7) it has a Watcha score of 3. 8 and a CGV Golden Egg of 92%, earning especially strong marks.

Baseball and dating, two of South Korea’s biggest obsessions right now, have been brought together. The genre of Korean dating shows — which has evolved from remote islands to unfamiliar travel spots, from sibling duets to programs pairing people who have never dated before — has reached another...

Names matter, and titles are just as important in popular entertainment. A title has to be instantly recognizable, memorable and true to the work if it is going to stick with audiences. Yet some series have ended up with two names.

If I had to name just one Korean commercial film released this year whose performance fell short of expectations, it would unquestionably be 〈Gyeongju Trip〉. The film's provocative story and its sheer determination to swing between comedy and tragedy with almost ungainly roughness certainly shone,...

Ryu Seung-ryong and Park Hae-joon play sworn-enemy brothers in Jeong Family, directed by Kim Ji-hyun, which has set its release date for Dec. 2 and unveiled its first stills. Lotte Entertainment is handling the film’s presentation and distribution. Yong Film produced it, with Studio Noongil Co.

※[Fascinating anecdotes about Korean film directors you probably didn't know] continues from Part 1.〈The Admiral: Roaring Currents〉 〈Hansan: Rising Dragon〉 director Kim Han-min once ran out of a theater after thinking an elephant on screen was charging at him Kim Han-min, the director of the Yi...

​ ▶ 〈Street Fighter〉 Continues from the interview with Callina Liang, who plays Chun-Li. ​ 〈Street Fighter〉 How did you come to join the film. ​ Kale Boiter, the producer who is one of the film’s unsung heroes, came to see my stand-up show one night.

▶ 〈Family Trip〉 The interview with actress Lee Hwi-hyang and director Kim Jung-tae continues from Part 1. As a "family film," the relationship between the grandmother and her granddaughter is intriguing. The grandmother keeps trying to go outside because of dementia, while the granddaughter,...