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, July 11 (Korea Bizwire) – With the summer movie season right around the corner, a number of blockbuster movies – Train to Busan (July 20), Jason Bourne (July 27), The Last Princess (early August), and The Tunnel (August 10) – will be fighting for top spot at the Korean box office. According to Korea Film [...]
SEOUL, June 15 (Korea Bizwire) – The movie “The Hunt” starring Ahn Sung-ki and Cho Jin-woong successfully finished a round of crowdfunding on Tuesday, June 14. The Hunt Crowdfunding Corporation, established exclusively to raise funds for the movie, started attracting funds on June 13, with the goal of raising 300 million won. By 2 p.m. on [...]
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 [...]
BUSAN, May 25 (Korea Bizwire) – An annual Arab film festival will be held simultaneously in Seoul and Busan later this week, providing a rare chance for a South Korean audience to better understand the Arab world, a co-organizer said Wednesday. The 5th Arab Film Festival will feature 15 films from 10 Arab nations, including [...]
SEOUL, May 24 (Korea Bizwire) – The art director for the South Korean movie “The Handmaiden” has won an independent award at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, a film distributor here said Tuesday. Ryu Seong-hie, the art director for the thriller, captured the Vulcan Award of the Technical Artist, CJ Entertainment said. Ryu is the [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) – There is no such thing as a BFF – and apparently Korean theatergoers are enjoying the premise. More than 90 percent of those who visited the theaters last weekend watched ‘Captain America: Civil War’, the latest blockbuster film from Marvel Studios. Civil War was screened 29,756 times on 1,989 [...]
SEOUL, May 4 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean movie “Chalet” has won Best Foreign Feature at the Arizona International Film Festival, according to event organizers on Wednesday. Directed by Park So-jin, “Chalet” depicts Koreans’ dream for national unification through inter-Korean understanding and communication. It was invited to the 25th Arizona International Film Festival held [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) – “Like for Likes,” a South Korean romantic comedy starring actor Yoo Ah-in, will be released in the United States later this month, the film’s distributor said Thursday. The film, which follows three couples relying on social media to communicate their innermost feelings, will hit the screens in Los Angeles [...]