Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013). By Paul Quinn, founder of the excellent Hangul Celluloid . Ask almost anyone ...

Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013). By Kyu Hyun Kim, Associate Professor at UC Davis and koreanfilm.org  contributor....

(by refresh_daemon) Re-encounter is a Korean independent film that managed to garner a number of awards from festivals as well as a...

Playing at the 27th Fribourg International Film Festival (March 16-23, 2013) Oomie Lecomte’s film  A Brand New Life  fills an interes...

Part I of a special MKC feature on Jang Kun-jae. By Rex Baylon The beauty and innocence of young love might be the greatest hoax perp...

Part of  MKC's Coverage  of the 6th Cinema Digital Seoul Film Festival. Let me get this right out of the way first, this is NOT ab...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 3rd Korean Film Festival in Australia (previously published). One of the aspects of Korean cinema whic...

“Let's just read. In such a rotten world only books will save us.” This line of dialogue, which is spoken early in Oki’s Mo...

Since the days of the New Korean Wave of the late 80s and early 90s men in Korean cinema have frequently found themselves on the road i...

Another huge Weekly Review Round-up as the Korean blogathon came to an end.  A great wealth of films covered stretching across every time, g...

2010 was a great year for Korean cinema and as here at Modern Korean Cinema I'm going back through Korean film to get a sense of what...

A little slow this week but another wide variety of films covered, good, bad, old and new. Enjoy! RECENT RELEASES Champ (Moder...

30 new reviews this week including a great write-up on Hong Sang-soo's latest from The New Yorker and a series of reviews on Kim Ki-du...

Questions of Masculinity and Beauty in the Jopok Films A Bittersweet Life (2005) and The Man From Nowhere (2010) (contd.) ...