All South Korea articles – Page 23
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News‘Parasite’ star Song Kang-ho heads K-Movie’s Cannes slate with comedy ‘One Win’ (exclusive)
‘One Win’ is about a female volleyball team that finally gets a new coach.
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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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NewsCAA sells majority stake in 'Mare Of Easttown' studio wiip to South Korea’s JTBC Studios Co
wiip formed in 2018. Credits include Dickinson.
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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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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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Features‘Minari’ producer Christina Oh on her personal connection to the Korean immigrant story
Oh was brought the script by her friend, the film’s eventual star Steven Yeun.
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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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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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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.
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News‘The Point Men’ flies to Asian buyers for Megabox Plus M (exclusive)
Korean hostage crisis drama has been sold to 14 territories including Japan and Taiwan.
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NewsFinecut clocks deals for crime thriller ‘Midnight’ and more ahead of EFM (exclusive)
Further agreements struck for ‘Slate’, ‘Pipeline’ and ‘The Anchor’.
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NewsNetflix to invest $500m in Korean content in 2021
Slate includes BDSM romance ‘Moral Sense’ and space drama series ’The Silent Sea’.
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NewsKorea’s Acemaker movieworks launches sales on ‘Remember’ remake ahead of EFM (exclusive)
Pre-sales also closed on crime feature ‘Dirty Money’.
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NewsKorean international film sales up 43% during tough 2020
As expected, admissions in South Korea were down 73.7% year-on-year.