By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Feb. 23 (Yonhap) -- For an ordinary high school student, mathematics is one of the most formidable and fearsome subjects in midterms and finals. An increasing number of students...
15:08 Feb. 23
SEOUL, Feb. 22 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's filmmaking industry contracted for a second straight year in 2021 due mainly to the yearslong COVID-19 pandemic, government data showed Tuesday.
The aggr...
18:36 Feb. 22
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's major multiplex operators stayed in the red in the fourth quarter of last year amid the protracted COVID-19 pandemic but are expected to turn a...
10:32 Feb. 21
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By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korean award-winning director Park Chan-wook's short film shot entirely on the latest iPhone wa...
16:53 Feb. 18
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Feb. 18 (Yonhap) -- South Korean award-winning director Park Chan-wook's short film shot entirely on the latest iPhone was released online Friday.
"Life is But a Dream" is pa...
15:51 Feb. 18
By Kim Boram
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SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korean director Hong Sang-soo on Thursday (Korean time) won the grand jury prize at this year's Ber...
06:19 Feb. 17
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Yonhap) -- South Korean director Hong Sang-soo on Thursday (Korean time) won the grand jury prize at this year's Berlin International Film Festival for his latest film, "The Novelis...
05:18 Feb. 17
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Feb. 16 (Yonhap) -- South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo said Wednesday his latest work, "The Novelist's Film," is intended to reflect on his writing and filmmaking, and do a speci...
23:32 Feb. 16
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Feb. 15 (Yonhap) -- Choi Min-sik of "Oldboy" will return to the big screen as a genius mathematician defected from North Korea in the upcoming drama "In Our Prime."
Directed ...
15:37 Feb. 15
SEOUL, Feb. 8 (Yonhap) -- "Love and Leashes," a new South Korean film to be released by Netflix this month, is based on a popular web-based cartoon series about two seemingly ordinary office worker...
16:55 Feb. 08
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Yonhap) -- "The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure" has topped the South Korean box office over the Lunar New Year holiday but its total admissions were lower than expected amid omicro...
09:04 Feb. 03
SEOUL, Feb. 2 (Yonhap) -- Actor Park Bo-gum, currently serving in South Korea's Navy, has passed a state exam to become a licensed barber, military officials said Wednesday.
Park, who has been f...
07:00 Feb. 02
SEOUL, Jan. 29 (Yonhap) -- The Japanese Film Festival Online 2022 (JFF) will open for a two-week run next month, with 13 Japanese films to be screened free of charge, the event's organizers said Sa...
09:00 Jan. 29
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Jan. 21 (Yonhap) -- Two homegrown movies will hit local theaters next week to lure film buffs and holiday shoppers ahead of the upcoming Lunar New Year holiday.
"Kingmaker" a...
10:02 Jan. 21
SEOUL, Jan. 20 (Yonhap) -- Oscar-winning filmmaker Bong Joon-ho will likely come back with an English-language movie based on an unpublished U.S. science-fiction novel on clones, with Hollywood sta...
09:03 Jan. 20
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Jan. 19 (Yonhap) -- South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo will compete at the Berlin International Film Festival for the third year in a row.
According to the lineup for the 72nd...
20:28 Jan. 19
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Jan. 18 (Yonhap) -- In the upcoming action adventure movie "The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure," actor Kang Ha-neul takes the role of Muchi, an offhand, troublemaking bandit l...
16:33 Jan. 18
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Yonhap) -- Everybody in South Korea knows who is Kim Dae-jung, who served as the country's president from 1998 to 2003. But far less is known about Eom Chang-rok, a mys...
17:47 Jan. 14
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Jan. 13 (Yonhap) -- The upcoming Korean fantasy adventure "The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure" is a typical fun and exciting pirate film that features the life of pirates with...
16:32 Jan. 13
SEOUL, Jan. 5 (Yonhap) -- "Spider-Man: No Way Home" topped the annual South Korean box office last year to become the first foreign film to achieve the feat in 10 years, data showed Wednesday.
T...
09:55 Jan. 05