Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (Bae Yong-Kyan, 1989) at the Walter Reade Theater (NYC), Jan. 6, 8 [more]

Korean Films Invited to IntĄŻl Film Festivals [more]

Documentary: Choi Seung-hee, a legendary Korean dancer, produced by Etsuko Takano [more]

The Heyday of Korean Cinema 2: Fantastic Travel to the Past (Nov. 25 - Dec. 2), Hard-to-see Korean movies from the 1960s will be screened in Seoul and Puchon for six days. [more]

Everyone's a winner at Pusan Film Festival Philip Brasor (The Japan Times) reviews the Pusan International Film Festival. [more]

Korea's largest film festival the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) to return next month [more]

The 45th Regus London Film Festival ( 7 -22 Nov.), Im Soon-Rye's Waikiki Brothers, Yoon Jon-Chan's Sorum, Kwak Kyung-taek's Friend [more]

The 37th Chicago International Film Festival (4 -18 Oct.), Kim Ki-duk's Address Unknown [more]

2001 Focus On Asia [Fukuoka] (13-23 Sept.) Bichunmoo (Kim Young-jun), Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-ho) [more]

2001 Toronto International Film Festival (6-15 Sept.) Musa: The Warrior (Kim Sung-soo),& Address Unknown (Kim Ki-duk) [more]

The 2001 Montreal World Film Festival (Aug 23 -Sept 3) Secreat Tears (Park Ki-hyung), Bichunmoo (Kim Young-jun) [more]

Tell Me Something opens August 24th at the Cinema Village in New York City. [more]

Flowery Island (Song, Il-Gon) Competes in Venice Film Festival [more]

Fantastic Films Draw Buffs to Puchon City [more]

Renowned Chinese Director, Chen Kaige, Takes on 'Mongyudowondo' [more]

"The Last Empress" Is Going Hollywood [more]

2001 Fantasia International Film Festival (10-30 July): Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-ho), Die Bad (Ryu Seung-wan), The Foul King (Kim Ji-woon), Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook), Tell Me Something (Chang Youn-hyun) [more]

Kim Ki-duk's Isle at 2001 Cinemuerte International Horror Film Festival (5-14 July) [more]

Asako in Ruby Shoes (E J-yong) & The Isle (Kim Ki-duk) at the Cambridge Film Festival (12-22 July) [more]

NY Asian American International Film Festival (19-28 July): Joint Security Area (Park Chan-wook) & Sky Blue Hometown (Kim So-young) [more]

Korean movies carve out 39 pct. share of market [more]

Kim Yun-jin, Coming out of the theater thrilled with the Hollywood- style Korean movie, Shiri, people wondered who the actress was. [more]

Lee Jae Soo's Rebellion (Park Kwang-su, 1999) At the Korean Cultural Service (460 Park Avenue, NY), June 28, 6:30pm. [more]

The Bird Who Stops in the Air (Jeon Soo-il), Bongja (Park Chul-soo), Die Bad (Ryu Seung-wan), The Foul King (Kim Ji-woon), The Isle (Kim Ki-duk) at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (5-14 July 2001) [more]

A local film, Friends, breaking another record of the greatest number of audience in Seoul. [more]

The U.S. entertainment magazine `Variety` selected Myung Film Co., Ltd.as one of the 10 producers to watch [more]

Memento Mori (Min Kyu-dong) at the 13th Annual NewYork Lesbian & Gay Film Festival (June 7, 10:00 PM) [more]

Sam-Ryong the Mute (Shin Sang-Ok, 1964) at the Korean Cultural Service (May 31, 6:30 PM) [more]

2001 Seattle International Film Festival (May 24 - June 17, 2001) The Foul King (Ji-woon Kim), Joint Security Area (Chan-wook Park), Memento Mori (Kyu-dong Min), Barking Dogs Never Bite (Joon-ho Bong) [more]

The Isle (Ki-duk Kim, 2000) was named winner of the grand prize Golden Crow at the Brussels International Festival of Fantasy Films. Also the film won the Special Award of the Jury and a Best Actress Prize (Suh Jong) at the Oporto International Film Festival in Portugal. [more]

The 50 most powerful people in Korean film industry chosen by Cine21. [more]

A local film, Friends broke the box office record in Korea. [more]

Tony Rayns talks about a Korean director, Sun-woo Jang [more]

Swiri, a Korean blockbust, will be screened in North and Latin America, including the United States. [more]

This week's opening of a Korean film festival at the Metro cinema in London goes some way to drawing attention to the most dynamic and youthful film industry in the business. [more]

2001 Jeonju International Film Festival, Apr 27 - May 3 [more]

2001 Hawaii International Spring Film Festival, April 20 - 26 : A Day (Ji-seung Han) [more]

Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema presents a bunch of Asian films this year. (April 26 - May 7) Don't miss "Barking Dogs Never Bite" in Action Asia & "The Isle" in Danger After Dark

San Francisco International Film Festival (April 19 - May 3) Lee Chang-dong's Peppermint Candy [more]

2001 Barcelona Asian Film Festival (23 Apr - 9 May 2001) My Heart (Chang-ho Bae), Segimal (Neung-han Song), Peppermint Candy (Chang-dong Lee), and Girls Night Out (Sang-soo Im) [more]

One fine Korean movie at the New School, Tishman Auditorium (66 W. 12th St., New York), April 18th. Our Twisted Hero (Jong-won Park, 1992)

Pusan Asian Short Film Festival to Start May 25 [more]

At the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Rose Cinemas (30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, New York) March 17 (Sat) 4:30pm & 9:10pm. Barking Dogs Never Bite (Bong Joon-ho, South Korea, 2000, 108m)

Korean actor, Park Joong-hoon (Nowhere to Hide) to star in Hollywood film. [more]

Joint Security Area wins grand prix at Deauville Asian Film Festival [more]

Corridors that Whisper Dark Secrets: An Interview with Director Park Ki-Hyung [more]

The total number of moviegoers in Seoul surged to 27 million last year, a 12.4 percent growth from 1999. [more]

New Directors/New Films presents several Asian films, "The Foul King" (Mar 24, 25), "Peppermint Candy" (Mar 31), [more]

The University of Southern California, East Asian Studies and School of Cinema Television, presents contemporary Korean films from Feb. 9 to Feb. 18. "Shadows of Modern: Social Change and the New Korean Cinema [more]

"But gradually, I realized that my life and my films were inseparable. And I wanted to give my work some meaning." A Veteran Director's High Fidelity, Interview with Im Kwon-taek [more]

50 Distinguished People in Korean Film History [more]

The Isle flaunts its imagery as bold surrealism while making sure it delivers its share of hooks 'n' hookers horror and sex." [more]

Kim Sang-jin's Comedy Kicks the Moon [more]

Tough men dominate Korean movies [more]

Kim Ki-duk's new film Address Unknown, a story about the tragic lives of three teenagers and their parents living in Pyongtaek. [more]

Korean filmmarket Summer Preview Kick the Moon, A Wild Beauty, Guns & Talks, Say Yes. [more]

Korean filmmakers have ventured into increasingly diverse genres of late, but one field still remains relatively unexplored - sports. Bang Sung-woong's "Prison World Cup" [more]

The Humanist, Its Cynicism on Devilish Society [more]

Failan "A rare gem in Korean melodrama", Kim Mi-hui (Korea Herald) reviews a love story about a couple who've never met. [more]

Another shade of blue: so strange, so familiar. Kaori Shoji reviews Chong, a stunning film debut by 26-year-old Lee Sang Il. [more]

How can it not be with four of the hottest actors cast in leading roles and with a can't-lose plot like this? Friends [more]

Peppermint Candy "if some of the force of Mr. Lee's film may be lost on non-Korean audiences, the artful assurance of his directing and the brooding charisma of Mr. Sol's performance will not be". [more]

Foul King: A Korean Milquetoast Wrestles Misery to the Ground. A. O. Scott (New York Times) reviews. [more]

The past few years have seen an unprecedented renaissance in the South Korean film industry. Korean Cinema: the New Frontier [more]

Destructive, Vital and Obsessive Love Affair, Ki-duk Kim's The Isle [more]

Director Kim Jae-soo's "Club Butterfly," a drama about "couple swapping," is the kind of movie that makes you worry for it. [more]

Melodrama after melodrama has hit local theaters, giving the romantics their fill of sweet tales about love and family. Spring cinema, hot and controversial in Korea [more]

In his exquisitely wrought new film, Chunhyang, Im Kwon Taek uses Pansori, a Korean traditional song performance, to tell a folktale, a fable of young love that crosses forbidden class boundaries. [more]

Vicious performance keeps flashy, violent 'Nowhere to Hide' moving, Jeffrey M. Anderson examines Lee Myung-se's new film [more ]

Joint Security Area stormed up the South Korean charts on its September release. Hollywood Reporter reviews [more]

Sun-woo Jang's Lies."What Jang does show is the mesmerizing power of the passion in which this couple are enmeshed." [more]

The best way to describe The Scissors is as an artfully executed remake of I Know What You Did Last Summer. [more]

Swiri, A Whale of a Tale: A South Korean film-maker reels in audiences with a slick spy thriller that straddles the 38th Parallel [more]

Once again, Romantic Melodrama, Last Present (Oh Gi-hwan, 2000) on DVD [more]

Hong Sang-su's Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors on DVD (2000/English/All Coded/NTSC) [more]

Great Korean Romance on DVD? [more]

Korean version of Ring (Japan, Hideo Nakata) The Ring Virus, on DVD. Subtitles in English and Japanese. [more]

"Without question Il Mare was very pretty to look at". A beautiful and enjoyable Korean romance film, Il Mare, now on DVD with English subtitles. [more]

"There cannot be any perfect solutions or explanations about Tell Me Something" Would you like to solve the puzzle in Tell Me Something? [more]

Lee Myung-se's Nowhere to Hide: An action/art film constructed around the pursuit of a deceptive killer. Subtitled in English, Chinese and Japanese. [more]

Imagine that you knew you were going to die very soon...how would you spend your last days? Christmas In August Subtitled in English and Chinese. [more]

"I have never seen One Korean film!" Try these ten Korean films suggested by a viewer, Adam Harzell. Mostly available in English. [more]

The Cinema On The Road, Sun-woo Jang's personal essay on cinema in Korea. [more]

Based on his popular comic book, Armageddon, one of best Korean comic artists, Lee, attempted his first animation feature film, but... [more]

Seoul Stirring : 5 Korean Directors. English film critic Tony Rayns introduces the most important contemporary Korean filmmakers, Kwon-taek Im, Sun-woo Jang, Ui-seok Kim, Myung-se Lee and Kwang-su Park. [more]

It is not easy to find a book exploring Korean cinema in English. A couple of chapters in these books,
The Asian Film Industry (John A. Lent, 1990),
Colonialism, Nationalism in Asian Cinema (Wimal Dissanayake, 1994) and
Asian Pop Cinema:Bombay to Tokyo (Lee Server, 1999)
cover Korean Cinema.

Best Fifty Korean Films in Korean Film History chosen by Chosun Daily Newspaper. [more]

[Jan 17, 97 Alsion D. Gee & Whitney Mason] Cinema: On the Road to Recovery

[Autumn 2000, Yong-kwan Lee] Three Readings: One Text Im Kwon-taek's Chunhyang

[Autumn 2000, Rashmi Doraiswamy] Min Byung-Chun, The Big Screen Experience

[Spring-Summer 2000, Chirs Berry] Korean Documentary, Between the Global and the Local

[1998, Byun-sup Ahn] Humanism Above All

[1997, Yeon-ho Lee] Mapping the Korean Film Industry

[Jul 93, Isolde Standish] Korean Cinema and the New Realism: Text and Context

[Jan 91, Rob Wilson] Filming "New Seoul": Melodramatic Constructions of the Subject in Spinning Wheel and First Son

[Dec 88, Chang-ho Bae] Seoul in Korean Cinema

[Dec 87, Byung-sup Ahn] Humor in Korean Cinema

[Nov 29, 99 Margaret Juhae Lee] Seoul's Celluloid Soul: Korea's local film quota has Hollywood hopping mad.

From

[Mar 1, 99 Donato Totaro] Interview with Kwangmo Lee

[May 3, 99 Donato Totaro] Sopyanje

[Oct 16, 98 Peter Rist] An Introduction to Korean Cinema

[Sept 18, 97 Peter Rist] Korean Cinema in Montreal

[Sept 18, 97 Donato Totaro] Two Films by Shin Sang-ok

From

[Feb 00, Tony Rayns] Sexual Outlaws

[Jan 98, Tony Rayns] Cinephile Nation

From

[May 12, 97 Derek Elley] Identity search: International interest in South Korean movie industry.

[Feb 22, 99 Hanna Lee] U.S. distribs filling gap in Korean film output.

[Nov 1, 99 Derek Elley] Pusan pumps Korean pic profile.

[Feb 7, 00 Christopher Alford] Financiers flock to Korean ventures.

[Feb 28, 00 Don Groves] Korean coin back in o'seas pic pursuit: South Korean film distributors acquiring foreign films.

[May 1998, David Walsh] Dirt in the soul, Green Fish

[March 1998, Stefan Steinberg] Kim Dong-won, "Our situation requires us to make films dealing with social issues"

[June 1996, David Walsh] Park Kwang-su, "If something is wrong, we have to act"

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