Coming Attractions: SOCIALPHOBIA Logs on to Korean Screens This March

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By Rex Baylon I love a good mystery and Hong Seok-jae's feature debut Socialphobia , opening in Korean theaters on March 12, has it in... Continue reading →

Review: FUTURELESS THINGS, A Bright, Gleaming Comedy Well-Stocked With Laughs

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By Rex Baylon Towards the latter half of Kim Kyung-mook's Futureless Things , a niggling question kept popping into my head, "Why a... Continue reading →

Review: Grand and Mysterious, THE AVIAN KIND Soars

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By Pierce Conran A great many gems have emerged from the Korean independent scene of late, but some worry that the milieu lacks the unique v... Continue reading →

Review: GYEONGJU, Not Just a Place But an Idea

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By Rex Baylon “You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood... back home to a young man's dreams of glory and ... Continue reading →

Review: Meditative POHANG HARBOR Doesn't Quite Connect

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By Pierce Conran In a country with so many hardships out in the open and an unspoken swell of pain swirling just beneath the surface, there ... Continue reading →

Busan 2014 Review: VENUS TALK Drowns Out Despite Strong Female Stars

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran As a fan of Moon So-ri and production company Myun... Continue reading →

Busan 2014 Review: HAN RIVER Ponders Urban Malaise in Contemporary Korea

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran With black and white lensing, cheerful yet destitu... Continue reading →

Busan 2014 Review: WILD FLOWERS Wilts After A Bristling Start

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran The lives of aimless youths at the bottom of the ... Continue reading →

Busan 2014 Review: DAUGHTER Explores The Ills Of Modern Korean Parenting

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran Following a pair of indulgent films that awkwardl... Continue reading →

Busan 2014 Review: WE WILL BE OK Hits Its Stride Too Late In The Game

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran Writers are told to write about what they know, s... Continue reading →

Busan 2014 Review: Cool KUNDO: AGE OF THE RAMPANT Has Some Swagger In Its Step

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran With big stars and a hefty budget,  Kundo: Age Of ... Continue reading →

Busan 2014 Review: ENTANGLED Gets Caught Up in Its Own Depressing Narrative

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran Following the blistering debut Fatal , a gritty ra... Continue reading →

Busan 2014 Review: A HARD DAY Is Easy-to-Love Genre Cinema

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Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran If you feel that tough genre fare in Korea has bee... Continue reading →

Review: PLAN MAN Takes A Few Wrong Turns

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By Pierce Conran The 2014 commercial Korean film calendar kicked off with Plan Man , a light and colorful romantic comedy that carries on i... Continue reading →

Review: Borderline Life - DEAR DICTATOR Re-Frames the Gaze South

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By David Bell Renowned for his unflinching examinations of the socially, economically and culturally marginalised within South Korean soci... Continue reading →

Review - Cool KUNDO: AGE OF THE RAMPANT Has Some Swagger In Its Step

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By Pierce Conran With big stars and a hefty budget, Kundo: Age Of The Rampant marches into theaters with confidence and tongue planted firm... Continue reading →

Cannes 2014 Review: A HARD DAY Is Easy-to-Love Genre Cinema

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By Pierce Conran If you feel that tough genre fare in Korea has been spinning its wheels of late, you're not alone. While generally well... Continue reading →

News: HAN GONG-JU Picks Up Three Awards At Deauville Asian Film Festival

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By Patryk Czekaj There's no stopping Han Gong-ju , a little South Korean indie that's taking the film festival circuit by storm. Sin... Continue reading →

News: Jeon Do-yeon And Kim Yoon-seok In Talks for New Lee Yoon-ki Film

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By Rex Baylon For those Korean film fans that have an affinity for quiet settings and slightly damaged female characters, the films of Lee Y... Continue reading →

News: Three Wins for South Korean Cinema at this Year's Berlin Film Festival

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By Rex Baylon As the Berlin International Film Festival closes its doors for another year Korean cinema was not completely left out of the l... Continue reading →