ENTERTAINMENT
October 5, 2024 10:55am
From thrillers to animation: Netflix's 2025 Korean originals promise universal fun, fresh stories
Netflix, a global streaming service, plans to roll out seven Korean original films next year, responding to rapidly evolving content consumption trend...
October 4, 2024 06:04pm
CJ ENM vows to invest W1tr in content, maximize cross-platform synergy
BUSAN -- South Korean entertainment conglomerate CJ EJM said it would continue to invest 1 trillion won in content production and operation, its CEO Y...
October 4, 2024 11:22am
Auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa says he hasn’t discovered his style yet
BUSAN -- Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who gained international attention with the psychological horror thriller “Cure” (1997), said he still hasn’t discovered hi...
October 4, 2024 09:00am
[Box office] Movies in theaters this week
“Joker: Folie a Deux” (US) Opened Oct. 1 Crime/Musical Directed by Todd Phillips Arthur Fleck (Joaquin Phoenix), a failed comedian, is institutionaliz...
October 3, 2024 05:57pm
Apple TV+ documentary follows vibrant, fearless lives of haenyeo
BUSAN -- While there are a number of TV shows, documentaries and even fictional movies -- “Smugglers” (2023) -- that depict the lives of “haenyeo” or ...
October 3, 2024 03:09pm
[Reporter’s Notebook] Was Netflix film opening BIFF really a bad thing?
BUSAN -- The most heatedly discussed topic at this year’s Busan International Film Festival is whether it was appropriate for a big-budget streaming p...
October 3, 2024 02:05pm
[What to Watch] 3 Korean films to look out for at BIFF
The 29th Busan International Film Festival kicked off Wednesday, screening a total of 279 films from 63 countries. Though this year’s edition has take...
October 2, 2024 05:34pm
Netflix period flick ‘Uprising’ opens 29th BIFF, in first
BUSAN -- Netflix original Korean period film “Uprising,” opened the 29th Busan International Film Festival on Wednesday, the first time that a major s...
September 30, 2024 05:27pm
[New on the scene] Noh Sang-hyun says his ‘Love in the Big City’ character inspired heartful acting
After leaving a strong impression as Protestant minister Baek Isak in the Apple TV+ series “Pachinko,” Noh Sang-hyun makes his big screen debut with “...
September 29, 2024 11:55am
Korean American documentary ‘Free Chol Soo Lee’ wins Emmy
“Free Chol Soo Lee,” a 2022 US documentary about a Korean immigrant who was wrongfully convicted in 1973 of murdering a gang leader in San Francisco, ...
September 27, 2024 09:00am
[Box office] Movies in theaters this week
“Transformers One” (US) Opened Sept. 25 Animation/Science fiction Directed by Josh Cooley Set on Cybertron, the home planet of the Transformers, futur...
September 26, 2024 03:46pm
‘Dirty Money’ follows ironic situation of detectives on the run
Kim Min-soo, one of the writers behind crime noir films “The Merciless” (2017) and “Kingmaker” (2022), will release his debut crime flick “Dirty Money...
September 24, 2024 03:24pm
CJ ENM seeks to diversify its presence at 29th BIFF with TV series, K-pop documentary
South Korean entertainment conglomerate CJ EJM, a leading movie distributor as well as the operator of the country’s largest multiplex chain CJ CGV, i...
September 24, 2024 03:21pm
[Herald Review] Two misfits’ evolving friendship, chemistry spice up ‘Love in the Big City’
“Why it doesn’t make sense that we live together? I mean, the house price in Seoul is so damn expensive!” In a conservative country like South Korea, ...