All articles by Jean Noh – Page 14
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NewsKorean cinemas offer major support for release of ‘Escape From Mogadishu’, ‘Sinkhole’
Korea Theater Association to forgo ticket sales split until box office reaches 50% of budget.
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NewsKorea’s Bifan to open second hybrid edition with ‘Till We Meet Again’
Asia’s largest genre film festival to take place both on-and-offline.
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NewsNetflix reshuffles creative leadership team across Asia
Streaming giant shakes up senior team in its fastest growing region.
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NewsCJ ENM targets global streamers with four Mandarin-language series
Titles led by ‘Hungry Souls’, produced by Eric Khoo’s Zhao Wei Films
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NewsSouth Korea’s CJ ENM to invest $4.5bn in content over five years
The media giant is aiming to become more globally competitive with their films and TV series, as well as bolster their OTT platform TVing.
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NewsKorea’s Bifan unveils NAFF project market line-up
The industry event will run entirely online from July 8-13.
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NewsBong Joon Ho to direct Korean animation featuring sea creatures
Oscar-winner working with local VFX production house 4th Creative Party.
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News“Elder brother” to the Korean film industry, producer Lee Choon-yun dies aged 69
Lee Choon-yun’s Whispering Corridors horror series helped launch the renaissance of Korean cinema.
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NewsArgentinian doc ‘Splinters’ wins top prize at Korea’s Jeonju film festival
Documentary ‘Landscapes Of Resistance’ and black comedy ‘Friends And Strangers’ also pick up awards.
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NewsCannes 2021: Who is in the running?
The selection process is going down to the wire as everyone awaits confirmation the physical event will go ahead.
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NewsSouth Korean film festivals “strongly condemn” violent coup in Myanmar
International film festival organizers express solidarity with the people of Myanmar.
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NewsKOFIC launches 2021 fund to support Korea’s film industry through Covid crisis
Emergency stimulus package to support exhibition, distribution and production.
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NewsPark Chan-wook signs up for TV adaptation of ‘The Sympathizer’
The Handmaiden director is working with A24 on the series.
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NewsKorea’s Jeonju film festival adds more physical screenings for 2021 hybrid edition
Festival to open with Srdan Golubovic’s ‘Father’ and close with Aurel’s ‘Josep’.
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NewsCJ ENM appoints new director of content sales and acquisitions
Sebastian Kim will oversee CJ ENM’s finished content sales, including to global platforms such as Netflix, VIU and iQIYI.
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FeaturesKorean cinema professionals assess complex pandemic year
The Korean Wave has gathered momentum while full lockdowns have been avoided - but the situation on the ground for the film industry is more complicated.
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NewsBusan appoints new heads of festival and market
Appointments follow the recent departure of Jay Jeon.
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FeaturesFilmart 2021: The hot projects from South Korea
Korean sales agents are building on meetings started at the EFM.
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FeaturesHive Media Corp’s Kim Won-kuk talks building a slate of hits in challenging times
The Man Standing Next producer discusses how streamers, Covid-19 are changing Korean film.
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NewsCapricci takes French rights to Hong Sangsoo’s ‘Introduction’ (exclusive)
Feature is Hong’s fifth film in competition at the Berlinale and follows The Man Who Ran which won Silver Bear in 2020.