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Discounts, new releases bring back moviegoers

Jun 8, 2020

Despite lingering criticism that a return to cinemas is premature while COVID-19 continues to spread, government-issued discount coupons for movie tickets seem to have done their part in luring South...
Hwang Jung-min, Lee Jung-jae promise great chemistry in ‘Deliver Us From Evil’

Jun 8, 2020

The film was shot in three locations -- South Korea, Bangkok and Tokyo -- with around 80 percent of the filming taking place in Bangkok. “The characters aren’t ordinary, so the locations also had to...
‘Parasite’ bags 5 trophies at Daejong Film Awards, including best picture

Jun 6, 2020

Awards ceremony held without stars, audience amid COVID-19
Shin Hye-sun, Bae Jong-ok to star in ‘Innocence’

Jun 5, 2020

Shin, 30, an aspiring actress who made herself known to Korean viewers through 2017 smash-hit tvN drama “Stranger” and KBS’ 52-episode “My Golden Life,” is taking up her first lead role on the big sc...
[Box Office] Movies in theaters this week

Jun 5, 2020

Intruder (Korea) Opened June 4 Mystery, Thriller Directed by Sohn Won-pyung Having lost his wife in a mysterious car accident, Seo-jin (Kim Mu-yeol) finds it difficult to overcome her death and ...
'Parasite’ bags 5 trophies at Daejong Film Awards, including best picture

Jun 4, 2020

Awards ceremony held without stars, audience amid COVID-19
S. Korea's 'Peninsula,' 'Heaven' among Cannes' 2020 official selection

Jun 4, 2020

"Peninsula" by South Korean filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho and "Heaven: To The Land of Happiness" by fellow Korean director Im Sang-soo were selected among the 73rd Cannes Film Festival lineup Wednesday (loc...
'Parasite’ wins Best Film, Best Director at Daejong Film Awards

Jun 3, 2020

“The film ‘Ashfall’ is a disaster movie, but what we are facing in real life feels like a movie than any other films,” Lee said at the acceptance speech. “It has been a long time since we have seen a...
'A French Woman’: about a woman who belongs nowhere

Jun 3, 2020

Mix drama, fantasy and horror, the film sends timely message
Gao Ming’s ‘Damp Season’ bags grand prize at Jeonju film fest

Jun 2, 2020

The international competition’s best picture prize went to Argentine director Clarisa Navas’ “One in a Thousand,” while the special jury prize went to “The Year of the Discovery,” by Spanish filmmake...
Big-name actors coming to big screen in July

Jun 1, 2020

Meanwhile, Hwang Jung-min and Lee Jung-jae will be teaming up in hardboiled action flick “Deliver Us From Evil.” The two actors are reuniting seven years after appearing together in the crime noir “N...
Movies go half-price to attract theatergoers

May 31, 2020

Though fears concerning the novel coronavirus persist among the public, the film industry is ushering people to cinemas with discount coupons for movie tickets. The Korean Film Council, a state-fund...
CGV adopts system that checks whether moviegoers have masks on properly

May 29, 2020

CGV, South Korea's largest multiplex chain, said Friday it has adopted camera systems that automatically check moviegoers' temperatures and whether or not they have their masks on properly amid conce...
[Box Office] Movies in theaters this week

May 29, 2020

Underwater (US) Opened May 27 Action, Horror, Sci-Fi Directed by William Eubank A huge earthquake hits a subterranean drilling station at the bottom of the Mariana Trench, and mechanical enginee...
‘Intruder’ questions universal beliefs about family at a time of forced togetherness amid pandemic

May 28, 2020

“The idea of family is mostly accepted positively and warmly in our society, but at the same time, family holds the deepest secrets and sometimes the darkest of them. I thought, maybe, the universal ...