BUSAN, Oct. 21 (Korea Bizwire) – Taking off next Monday is the Busan Autumn Travel Weeks festival, which will run for two weeks, until November 6. What is different this year though is its theme, “Hunting for Busan’s Treasures from Movies”. According to the event’s organizing body – a joint venture between the Busan Metropolitan [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 17 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s espionage film “The Age of Shadows” swept local cinemas during the Chuseok holiday this week, surpassing 5 million viewers, data showed Saturday. According to data compiled by the state-run Korean Film Council (KFC), the film broke the 5 million mark after recording an accumulated audience of more [...]
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 [...]
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, 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 [...]