SEOUL, Dec. 9 (Yonhap) -- The upcoming Hollywood blockbuster "Spider-Man: No Way Home" is expected to be a box office hit as it has already sold more than 220,000 tickets with six days left before ...
16:25 Dec. 09
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By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- With the Christmas and year-end season fast approaching, a heartwarming romantic comedy film will hit South Korean t...
17:00 Dec. 01
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Dec. 1 (Yonhap) -- With the Christmas and year-end season fast approaching, a heartwarming romantic comedy film will hit South Korean theaters later this month.
"A Year-End M...
16:16 Dec. 01
SEOUL, Nov. 26 (Yonhap) -- "Escape from Mogadishu," a movie about a life-and-death escape by South and North Korean diplomats during the Somali civil war in the 1990s, on Friday won best picture at...
23:14 Nov. 26
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Nov. 25 (Yonhap) -- "Parasite" star Choi Woo-shik will return to the silver screen as an elite police officer in the upcoming crime action film "The Policeman's Lineage" more th...
15:20 Nov. 25
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Nov. 24 (Yonhap) -- Prominent Japanese filmmakers, including Cannes-winning Hirokazu Kore-eda, have been joining hands with South Korean productions amid the country's increased...
13:49 Nov. 24
The following is the second summary of major stories moved by Yonhap News Agency on Monday.
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Moon rebukes police over bungled response to violent crime
SEOUL -- President Mo...
17:01 Nov. 22
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Nov. 22 (Yonhap) -- With the South Korean quinquennial presidential election about four months away, a fact-based straight-ahead political satire is set to hit local screens nex...
15:55 Nov. 22
SEOUL, Nov. 19 (Yonhap) -- Long-awaited Korean movies are gearing up to hit local screens in the coming months to lure film buffs and holiday shoppers in the year-end winter vacation season.
The...
10:15 Nov. 19
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Nov. 16 (Yonhap) -- Body-swapping fantasies and amnesia thrillers are commonplace but surefire cinematic settings that would lead to box office hits like "Face Off" (1997), "You...
13:58 Nov. 16
SEOUL, Nov. 15 (Yonhap) -- Marvel's latest superhero film "Eternals" has topped the South Korean box office for the second consecutive week, data showed Monday.
"Eternals" attracted a combined 5...
08:50 Nov. 15
By Shim Sun-ah
SEOUL, Nov. 11 (Yonhap) -- A film based on the life of St. Andrew Kim Tae-gon, the first native Korean Catholic priest, will be produced as South Korea celebrates the bicentenary of ...
22:28 Nov. 11
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Nov. 10 (Yonhap) -- South Korean multiplex operators suffered huge losses in the third quarter amid the protracted COVID-19 pandemic, but their bottomline is expected to improve...
09:45 Nov. 10
SEOUL, Nov. 8 (Yonhap) -- Marvel's "Eternals" easily topped the South Korean box office over the weekend, pushing director Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi epic "Dune" to a distant second, data showed Mon...
09:50 Nov. 08
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- Actor Yoon Kye-sang, a former K-pop singer of the boy band g.o.d., has made an impressive turning point in his filmography after the hard-boiled action crime ...
15:46 Nov. 04
SEOUL, Nov. 4 (Yonhap) -- Marvel Studios' latest blockbuster "Eternals" has topped the South Korean box office on its opening day, data showed Thursday.
The film posted 296,000 attendees on Wedn...
09:04 Nov. 04
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Yonhap) -- The upcoming superhero film "Eternals" is expected to smash the pandemic-hit South Korean box office, with its presale tickets outpacing those of its Marvel predecessor "B...
15:06 Nov. 01
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Nov. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korean multiplex operators have braced for a long-awaited comeback of the audience to movie theaters as a gradual return to normalcy from the COVID-19 p...
10:30 Nov. 01
SEOUL, Oct. 28 (Yonhap) -- Oscar-winning actress Youn Yuh-jung will be awarded the highest national cultural medal for her contributions to the promotion of the Korean film industry, the government...
09:20 Oct. 28
SEOUL, Oct. 27 (Yonhap) -- The Korean action fantasy film "Spiritwalker" will be remade for U.S. audiences by a renowned producer in Hollywood, the film's distributor said Wednesday.
Lorenzo di ...
16:03 Oct. 27