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, July 14 (Korea Bizwire) – The South Korean historical drama “A Taxi Driver” opens with Seoul taxi driver Kim Man-seop (Song Kang-ho) hilariously singing along with an iconic popular song of the ’80s behind the wheel. It’s May 1980, several days before the bloody crackdown of a pro-democracy uprising in Gwangju, some 330 kilometers [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — The Korean period drama about a Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910) king who starved his own son to death was the top performer at the local box office over the weekend, data showed Monday. “The Throne” drew 1.32 million viewers during the Sept. 18-20 weekend, bringing the film’s total attendance to 1.8 [...]
“History is a common asset, not a bowl that a filmmaker can lock in his own world. Reinterpreting history in a director’s own way is a job requiring a grave sense of responsibility.” “About 70 to 80 percent of the lines are from the historical materials. I closely looked into all available history records such [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 3 (Korea Bizwire) – “The Throne,” the tragic story of a Joseon Dynasty king starving his own son to death, was chosen as the Korean candidate for the Academy Awards’ best foreign language film next year, a Seoul-based film council said Wednesday. The story of King Yeongjo, the 21st king of the Joseon Dynasty [...]