by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com South Korea’s 3D maritime film Northern Limit Line will hit theaters in North America and Australia later this month, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Based […]
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‘Northern Limit Line’ Tops South Korean Box Office
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com Northern Limit Line, a film that depicts a 2002 inter-Korean naval skirmish, topped South Korea’s weekly box office this past weekend, dropping Jurassic […]
‘Ode to My Father’ Grosses Over $2 Million in North America
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com Ode to My Father, a South Korean postwar melodrama, grossed more than $2 million in ticket sales after screening in North American theaters for just […]
‘Han Gong-ju’ Picked as Best Local Film of 2014 by KOFRA
by REERA YOO | @reeraboo editor@charactermedia.com The Korea Film Reporters Association (KOFRA) announced on Monday that it has chosen coming-of-age film Han Gong-ju as the best domestic picture of […]
Q&A with the Director of ‘The Attorney’
This story was originally published in the February 2014 issue of KoreAm Journal. Already a hit in South Korea, The Attorney, based on a controversial former president’s moral coming […]
South Korea Submits ‘Sea Fog’ For Foreign-Language Category at Oscars
by REERA YOO South Korea has selected the thriller Sea Fog (Haemoo) as their official candidate for the foreign-language feature category at the 2015 Oscars, reported the Hollywood Reporter. Based on […]
Bong Joon-ho Releases His Version of ‘Snowpiercer’ In U.S.
by STEVE HAN The earth is frozen. Its only surviving inhabitants are confined in Snowpiercer, a perpetually moving locomotive in which the last members of the human race live […]
Acclaimed SKorean Director Kim Ki-duk To Release His ‘Trauma Film’ at Venice Days
by HAEIN JUNG One on One, the 20th film from South Korea’s renowned and controversial director Kim Ki-duk, will open the Venice Film Festival’s sidebar film circuit, Venice Days, which […]
