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Kim Mi-jo’s 〈Gyeongju Trip〉 is a brisk, chilly revenge drama that announces a director with a singular, hard-to-pin-down voice. Director Kim Mi-jo said that 〈Little Miss Sunshine〉 (2006) and Bong Joon-ho’s 〈The Host〉 (2006) were the biggest influences on 〈Gyeongju Trip〉.

Large-scale solo concert ‘Unknown’ set for Oct. 9-11 as Lee Chang-sub takes aim at the fall music marketPowerhouse collaboration between two of the music industry’s leading masters of emotionLee Chang-sub of BTOB is teaming up with leading music producer Yoon Jong-shin to tap into listeners’...

Gong Hyo-jin’s acting carries an unusually persuasive power. Even a premise in which a character sets out to punish a heinous criminal herself, and a genre blend that shuttles relentlessly between comedy and tears, feel entirely believable because of her.

35th awards ceremony to be held at Signiel Busan in Haeundae; ‘A Man Who Lives With the King,’ which topped 10 million viewers, produces two best actor nomineesA head-to-head battle between two giants leading South Korea’s film industry is taking shape.

“Kim Hye-soo,” one of South Korea’s leading actresses, has pushed past another limit through the Coupang Play original series “Now Affairs Aren’t the Problem”. The work, which achieved a landmark as the No. 1 in cumulative viewership among all Coupang Play series, is a daring black comedy that...

The Coupang Play series 〈The Affair was Just the Beginning〉, which has released four episodes so far (hereafter 〈The Affair〉), is a series whose appeal lies in peeling back its many layers one by one. Blending cynicism and wry laughter, satire and boldness, the series never loses energy as it...

The comedy action gem “OK Madam”, which delivered feel-good laughs even amid the harsh conditions of the 2020 pandemic, returns after six years with “OK Madam 2”, expanding its scale twofold. Director “Lee Chul-ha” puts the spotlight on “Uhm Junghwa”, an actor with an aura that is impossible to...

Christopher Nolan’s long-gestating passion project finally reached theaters in South Korea on Aug. 5, with 〈Odyssey〉 reimagining Homer’s 「Odyssey」 as a modern blockbuster. 「Odyssey」—written around the 8th century BCE—is widely regarded as a pinnacle of ancient Greek literature and is often...

Christopher Nolan visited South Korea for the first time on Aug. 3, appearing at the Four Seasons Hotel in Jongno-gu, Seoul with producer Emma Thomas and actors Matt Damon and Charlize Theron ahead of the Aug. 5 release of 〈Odyssey〉.

The world-renowned auteur Christopher Nolan stepped onto Korean soil with Hollywood A-listers Matt Damon and Charlize Theron, bringing their new film Odyssey with them. Their Korea visit, set in motion ahead of a domestic release on May 5, has drawn attention as a special move that goes beyond the...