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Chuseok has arrived, and with it comes a wave of Korean releases vying for holiday audiences over the long break. A variety of movies are opening now, each hoping to capture viewers during the holiday. CinePLAY reporters previewed three titles that have drawn the most attention and anticipation.

〈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...

C'est Si Bon's Lee Baek-chun dies at 93; Jo Young-nam mourns 60 years of Ddolgang Former TBC PD pioneered Korea's acoustic-guitar movement in 1964; funeral procession set for 7 a.m. on the 23rd Lee Baek-chun, a popular-music critic who served as a mentor to Korean 'folk music' in the 1960s and '70s...

Actor Park Hae-il is returning to theaters with 〈Assassin 〉, a Chuseok release that revisits the 1974 killing of South Korea’s first lady through the eyes of a detective and two reporters. The film reconstructs that incident from the perspectives of Detective Cheol-gu (Yoo Hae-jin), social affairs...

〈Tazza: The Song of Beelzebub〉 has unveiled two main posters ahead of its Sept. 23 release. The two posters, filled with red, herald a bold and alluring rush of crimson for theaters this Chuseok holiday. The characters stare each other down without a hint of a smile, foreshadowing a brutal,...

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〉.

Kim Jae-joong to deliver K-music keynote as MU:CON 2026 unveils 42 acts Event runs Sept. 2-4 at Cube Convention Center, with new AI music open session and convergence matching program Global music market evolves, raising questions about K-pop's future MU:CON 2026 (MU:CON 2026), set to reshape the...

Director Lee Joon-ik’s short drama 〈Father’s Home-Cooked Meal〉 opens the door to the 1st Korea Short Drama Awards. It was selected as an invited work for the awards ceremony to be held at KOFA Cinematheque, the main venue of the Korea Film Archive located in Sangam-dong, on Aug. 29 .

Carrying the daunting title as the follow-up to the mega hit 'Jang Bu-jang' that reached a high viewership rating of 23%, actor 'Ahn Bo-hyun' returns to the living room on July 7 with SBS’s new Friday-Saturday drama 'Jae-bol X Detective 2'.

The key cast of Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’, which has swept the world, is coming together for director Na Hong-jin’s new film ‘Hope’. With ‘Hope’ surpassing 2 million viewers within five days of its release and triggering a shake-up at theaters, the box-office buzz is expected to add even more...