BUSAN, July 27 (Korea Bizwire) – The premiere for ‘Operation Chromite’, a blockbuster film based on the events of the Korean War, took place on the flight deck of the 1,500-ton Dokdo amphibious landing ship (LPH-6111) at a naval base in Busan on Tuesday night. The premiere, arranged by the film’s distributor, CJ Entertainment, was [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) – “Train to Busan,” one of the nation’s most attention-getting films this summer, has set a new one-day attendance record of all movies ever screened in the country, data showed Sunday. The apocalyptic zombie thriller drew an audience of 1,280,944 on Saturday alone, according to the computerized box-office figures from [...]
BUCHEON, July 22 (Korea Bizwire) – The 20th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (BIFAN) kicked off on Thursday, with some of Korea’s top actors and actresses making appearances. Inaugurated in 1997, BIFAN focuses mainly on fantasy, horror, thriller and mystery films from South Korea and overseas. This year’s festival was themed ‘Love, Fantasy, and Adventure’, [...]
SEOUL, July 21 (Korea Bizwire) – “Train to Busan,” one of the most anticipated films of this summer, has set a new record opening for all movies ever screened in the country, data showed Thursday. The apocalyptic zombie thriller drew an audience of 858,659 on Wednesday, taking 82.3 percent of all ticket sales, according to [...]
SEOUL, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean film “The Tunnel” will get a screening at a non-competition section of this year’s Locarno International Film Festival, according to the festival’s official website on Thursday. The survival-drama movie, starring actors Ha Jung-woo and Oh Dal-su and actress Bae Doona, will be screened outdoors in the [...]
SEOUL, July 13 (Korea Bizwire) – The Korean War broke out with Soviet-backed North Korea invading its southern neighbor in the early morning of June 25, 1950. In just three days, Seoul was captured, and by September 1950, North Korea had pushed its forces down to the Nakdong River, controlling about 90 percent of the [...]
SEOUL, June 30 (Korea Bizwire) – U.S. video service provider Netflix Inc. said Thursday that it will include more locally produced content as part of its efforts to tap deeper into the South Korean market. Five months after its global rollout in 130 countries, including South Korea, the video streaming provider with more than 81 [...]
SEOUL, June 28 (Korea Bizwire) – ‘Under the Sun’ is a 2015 Russian documentary film written and directed by Vitaliy Manskiy, which follows the story of a North Korean girl who prepares to celebrate the Day of the Shining Star, the birthday of Kim Jong-il, the late father of current leader Kim Jong-un. The film’s [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – There are four movie character genres that exist in film that have attracted more than 10 million moviegoers in Korea. They are heroes, mentors, tricksters, and heralds. The herald is the one who brings the ‘Call to Adventure’ Image science professor Kim Su-jeong from Kyonggi University revealed the findings after [...]
SEOUL, June 13 (Korea Bizwire) – Warcraft, the latest fantasy blockbuster film, hit Korean theaters last Thursday and is competing fiercely against director Park Chan-wook’s The Handmaiden for the Korean box office title. Warcraft portrays a predestined warfare between Orcs and humans based on Blizzard Entertainment’s 1994 real-time strategy game of the same title with [...]