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Seventeen and IVE launch October comebacks — Can they help push annual album sales past 100 million? After the music industry briefly caught its breath amid major sporting events and holiday breaks, global K-pop stars including 'Seventeen', 'IVE' and 'PLAVE' are returning one after another, kicking...

A national melody reborn with a modern sensibility, the essence of crossover South Korea’s leading musical theater actors, married couple Kim So-hyun and Son Jun-ho, released their new song ‘We daehan Arirang’ on Oct. 9 to mark Hangul Day.

I’m a sucker for subculture. I dig into anything with fresh stories, settings, or characters—not just films but webtoons, games, manga, and animation. After discovering the world of fandom through comics, I became an "adult kid" who reads manga ebooks and webtoons on my smartphone.

The 31st Busan International Film Festival opened with a grand ceremony at the Busan Cinema Center in Haeundae, Busan, kicking off Asia's largest film festival. This year BIFF moved its opening day up by one day from Wednesday to Tuesday.

30 years of acting experience help her weather technology’s waves Fan Bingbing, an actress who has built a career on the global stage beyond the Chinese-language market, returned to the 31st 'Busan International Film Festival ' after three years.

Seoul Independent Film Festival 2026, a showcase celebrating the year in independent cinema, has announced the films selected for its Main Short and Feature Competition and New Currents sections. The 52nd Seoul Independent Film Festival received 1,917 submissions for this year's open call — 1,715...

South Korea's premier film event and Asia's largest film festival, the '31st Busan International Film Festival' , opened in grand style on Oct. 6. The festival launched a 10-day cinematic journey featuring 316 films, including 93 'world premieres' being shown for the first time anywhere in the...

Now well established as pillars of the Korean film industry, many of these directors' rookie-day stories are, in fact, more interesting than the movies that would later define their careers. But those stories rarely come straight from the directors themselves.

From leading creative partners in film to lifelong spouses Koo Kyo-hwan (44), an actor, and Yi Ok-seop (39), a director and one of South Korea’s leading independent-film power couples, have drawn public attention after it emerged that they are already legally married.

[First reactions at the press screening] Tom Cruise's first collaboration with director Alejandro G. Iñárritu arrives when 〈Digger〉 opens Oct. 3. 〈Digger〉 follows how a small crack at the Greenland glacier drilling facility owned by cantankerous eccentric tycoon 'Digger Rockwell' turns into an...