SEOUL, Oct. 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Telecommunications giant KT announced on September 12 that it has teamed up with virtual reality content producer Barunson to hold a VR screening room at this year’s Busan International Film Festival. Titled ‘VR Cinema in BIFF’, the screening room will show 23 short films. The daily schedule runs from [...]
SEOUL, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Singer and actress Im Yoon-ah, better known as Yoona from Girls’ Generation, will replace actress Kim Ha-neul as a co-host of the opening ceremony for this year’s Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), organizers said Tuesday. The BIFF organizers said that Kim recently gave notice that she cannot attend the [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (Korea Bizwire) — For many Korean film reporters, autumn brings with it the opening of an international film festival held annually in the southern port city of Busan. The Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) provides a rare chance for them to see the latest movies from prominent Asian directors before they arrive [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 5 (Korea Bizwire) – The Busan Film Festival had a showcase of six rising young stars representing South Korea, Japan and Taiwan on Monday. The panel included Kim Woo-bin and Kim Go-eun from South Korea, Taiwan-based stars Mark Chao and Sandrine Pinna, and Takeru Satoh and Masami Nagasawa of Japan. The “casting board” event selects one male and female [...]
“I once felt much burden due to the title. I wanted to get rid of and overcome it, but couldn’t.” “I think I have to live with the title as long as I work as an actress because Cannes’ best actress was such a huge award.” “I used to be called ‘box-office princess of the [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 2 (Korea Bizwire) – Korean actress Son Ye-jin returned to the silver screen after one year with a Korean-Chinese co-produced action comedy. “Bad Guys Always Die” also marks her debut film in the growing Chinese market. “I came to debut in a Chinese film,” Son said during a news conference in this port city [...]
BUSAN, Oct. 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The Busan International Film Festival will open in the southern port city of Busan on Thursday, celebrating its 20th anniversary with a rich lineup of films and celebrities. Founded in 1996, it unarguably has developed into Asia’s largest film festival with a budget of about 12 billion won (US$10 [...]
BUSAN, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — A photo of the Busan International Film Festival’s opening ceremony was seen on the main page of UNESCO’s Creative Cities Network Thursday. UNESCO attached the photo of the ceremony at the Busan Cinema Center, the iconic main venue of the annual film festival, in an article for providing information [...]
“The Cannes International Film Festival fully supports BIFF and its executive director Lee Yong-kwan, putting all our honor on this. Outside forces should not have any influence on the programming of a film festival. A film festival should make its own decision on whether it likes a film or not.” - Thierry Fremaux, director of [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 26 (Korea Bizwire) – The Busan city government’s alleged pressure on the director of the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) to step down have sparked fierce backlash from the local film circle. Citing film industry sources, local dailies reported Saturday that a high-ranking official in the Busan city government recently met with BIFF [...]