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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...

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.

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.

I get hooked on music in films. Music often reveals intimate emotions that images and dialogue alone cannot fully convey. It can serve as a window into a creator's hidden intentions. For me, understanding film music has been one route into the movie itself.

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.

The Netflix series 〈Solo Leveling〉 follows Sung Jin-woo, an E-rank hunter considered the weakest among the hunters who protect the real world from monsters beyond the gates, as he awakens in the face of death and levels up into the strongest hunter capable of saving the world.

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,...

Estranged brothers join forces in a crisis as family bonds shine Ryu Seung-ryong and Park Hae-joon, two of South Korea's leading character actors, star in 'Jeonggane' as brothers whose relationship is worse than that of enemies. The film will hit theaters Dec. 2.

Criticism of film turns into excessive, blind witch hunt As a controversy over alleged historical distortion surrounding the film 'Assassins' spread into a sweeping boycott targeting lead actor 'Yoo Hae-jin' and protests outside his home, his agency and Choi Hwi-young, the minister of culture,...

Albert Camus’ 「The Stranger」, long considered a near-untouchable text for filmmakers, returns to the screen in François Ozon’s bold adaptation — one that restores the colonial Algerian context the novel left at the margins. “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday.