SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Yonhap) -- The Korean film industry saw its monthly sales soar nearly 150 percent on-year in July on the back of several box-office hits, data showed Wednesday.
The industry's tota...
15:49 Aug. 17
SEOUL, Aug. 17 (Yonhap) -- "Hunt," the directorial debut of Lee Jung-jae of "Squid Game," has topped 2 million admissions, box-office data showed Wednesday.
The espionage film drew 146,000 peopl...
08:01 Aug. 17
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Aug. 16 (Yonhap) -- Star actor Hyun Bin said Tuesday that he has given some fresh twists to his North Korean agent character in the upcoming action comedy "Confidential Assignme...
13:46 Aug. 16
SEOUL, Aug. 15 (Yonhap) -- The Korean historical film "Hansan: Rising Dragon" topped a cumulative 6 million admissions in the Korean box office on the 20th day of its release, its distributer said ...
11:49 Aug. 15
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Yonhap) -- Park Chan-wook's Cannes-winning romance "Decision to Leave" will represent South Korea in next year's Oscars.
The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) said Friday it has chosen...
08:53 Aug. 12
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's major cinema chains showed clear signs of recovery in the second quarter as a growing number of moviegoers are returning to theaters, industry ...
10:42 Aug. 11
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Yonhap) -- Netflix's latest Korean original film "Carter" starts with a 20-minute single-take action scene where Carter (Joo Won), an amnesiac agent on a hostage rescue...
16:00 Aug. 10
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Yonhap) -- The Korean action thriller "Carter" has debuted at No. 1 on Netflix's latest weekly viewership chart of non-English films.
Released last Friday, the Netflix Korean-lan...
10:01 Aug. 10
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Yonhap) -- Hollywood star Brad Pitt will visit South Korea for the first time in eight years to promote his new film "Bullet Train," the movie's local distributor said Friday.
Pit...
11:08 Aug. 05
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Aug. 5 (Yonhap) -- Korean filmmaker Jung Byung-gil's female assassin movie, "The Villainess" (2017), opens with a stunning motorcycle fight scene entirely shot from a first pers...
06:00 Aug. 05
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Aug. 3 (Yonhap) -- Lee Jung-jae, the star of Netflix's global sensation "Squid Game," said Wednesday that he revised some key lines and cuts in his directorial debut "Hunt" afte...
17:35 Aug. 03
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, Aug. 2 (Yonhap) -- South Korean filmmaker Jung Byung-gil said Tuesday that his upcoming Netflix original "Carter" is an action-packed movie that he has dreamed of, filled with m...
15:27 Aug. 02
SEOUL, Aug. 1 (Yonhap) -- The Korean historical film "Hansan: Rising Dragon" has topped a cumulative 2 million admissions over the weekend, box office data showed Monday.
The film about a famous...
08:55 Aug. 01
SEOUL, July 29 (Yonhap) -- Two directorial debut films of South Korean star actors Lee Jung-jae and Jung Woo-sung have been invited to this year's Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the fi...
09:49 Jul. 29
by Kim Boram
SEOUL, July 28 (Yonhap) -- Star actor Lee Byung-hun said Thursday his fatherhood played a role in acting as a desperate father who has to save his daughter from a terrorist attack in t...
16:50 Jul. 28
SEOUL, July 28 (Yonhap) -- A homegrown historical film about a famous naval battle by Adm. Yi Sun-sin against an invading Japanese fleet in the 16th century has topped the South Korean box office o...
09:25 Jul. 28
SEOUL, July 27 (Yonhap) -- Director Choi Dong-hoon and actor So Ji-sub of the new Korean sci-fi action fantasy "Alienoid" recently tested positive for COVID-19, the film's local distributor said We...
22:37 Jul. 27
By Kim Boram
SEOUL, July 27 (Yonhap) -- Cannes-winning actor Song Kang-ho said Wednesday that his latest disaster film, "Emergency Declaration," about an in-flight virus attack coincides with the CO...
15:27 Jul. 27
SEOUL, July 26 (Yonhap) -- "Extraordinary Attorney Woo," a South Korean TV series about a rookie lawyer with autism spectrum disorder, has become the latest global K-drama sensation, dominating loc...
14:23 Jul. 26
By Shim Sun-ah
SEOUL, July 26 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's first aviation-disaster genre film, "Emergency Declaration," could have been remembered as a classy movie if not for its contrived and cliche...
10:59 Jul. 26