SEOUL, April 20 (Korea Bizwire) — Streaming platform Tving’s dystopian series “Bargain” has received the best screenplay award at this year’s Cannes International Series Festival, becoming the first Korean drama to win a trophy at the French event. Its three co-writers — Jeon Woo-sung, Choi Byeong-yun and Kwan Jae-min — were honored at the 6th [...]
SEOUL, April 16 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean government said Sunday it will hold special screening and showcasing events at this year’s Cannes International Series Festival to promote Korean-made content to global media and producers. Three Korean TV and web series are invited to the festival’s non-competition Rendez-vous section — “Island” (2022), “Midnight Horror: [...]
SEOUL, April 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Two South Korean films will be screened at noncompetition categories of this year’s Cannes Film Festival, the event’s organizers has announced. Director Kim Jee-woon’s new feature film “Cobweb” has been selected for Out of Competition and director Kim Chang-hoon’s debut feature film “Hopeless” for Un Certain Regard, according to [...]
CANNES, France, May 28 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans Park Chan-wook and Song Kang-ho were named Best Director and Best Actor, respectively, at this year’s Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. It is the first time in the country’s cinema history that Korean films have taken home two titles at a time at the world’s most [...]
SEOUL, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean filmmaker Park Chan-wook’s latest feature film, “Decision to Leave,” has attracted high scores and favorable reviews from foreign news media following its premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival earlier this week. Screen Daily, British film magazine Screen International’s daily magazine for the film festival, reported Tuesday [...]
SEOUL, May 13 (Korea Bizwire) — At this year’s Cannes Film Festival set to kick off next week, two Korean films — “Decision to Leave” by renowned director Park Chan-wook and “Broker” by award-winning Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda — will compete for the top honor of Palme d’Or. It is the first time in five [...]
CANNES, France, May 19 (Korea Bizwire) – The press screening of South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s “Okja” at the Cannes Film Festival was temporarily stopped on Friday (local time) due to jeers from the audience opposing the Netflix-invested title’s presence at this year’s event. Boos, claps, and whistles erupted from the audience when the Netflix [...]
SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) – Renault Samsung has unveiled a special edition of its subcompact crossover, the QM3, which is a badge-engineered version of the Renault Captur. The South Korean unit of French auto firm Renault S.A. said that it will only sell 500 units of the QM3 Cannes Blue Special Edition during the [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Several Korean musicians will be introduced at three of the world’s most popular music festivals, said the Korea Creative Content Agency on April 23. On May 8, Verbal Jint, Dok2, The Quiett, Beenzino, Sultan of the Disco and Lunafly will appear at Canadian Music Week’s K-Pop showcase from 5 [...]
SEOUL, Apr. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — Three homegrown films have been invited to sidebar competition and non-competition categories of this year’s Cannes International Film Festival, but none to the main competition for the third year in a row. “The Shameless” and “Madonna” will be screened in the “Un Certain Regard” section and “Office” in the [...]