By Rex Baylon I love a good mystery and Hong Seok-jae's feature debut Socialphobia , opening in Korean theaters on March 12, has ...

By Rex Baylon Towards the latter half of Kim Kyung-mook's Futureless Things , a niggling question kept popping into my head, "...

By Pierce Conran A great many gems have emerged from the Korean independent scene of late, but some worry that the milieu lacks the ...

By Rex Baylon “You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood... back home to a young man's dreams of ...

By Pierce Conran In a country with so many hardships out in the open and an unspoken swell of pain swirling just beneath the surface, ...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran As a fan of Moon So-ri and production com...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran With black and white lensing, cheerful ...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran The lives of aimless youths at the bott...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran Following a pair of indulgent films tha...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran Writers are told to write about what th...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran With big stars and a hefty budget,  Kun...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran Following the blistering debut Fatal , a...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran If you feel that tough genre fare in Kor...

By Pierce Conran The 2014 commercial Korean film calendar kicked off with Plan Man , a light and colorful romantic comedy that carries...

By David Bell Renowned for his unflinching examinations of the socially, economically and culturally marginalised within South Korea...

By Pierce Conran With big stars and a hefty budget, Kundo: Age Of The Rampant marches into theaters with confidence and tongue pla...

By Pierce Conran If you feel that tough genre fare in Korea has been spinning its wheels of late, you're not alone. While genera...

By Patryk Czekaj There's no stopping Han Gong-ju , a little South Korean indie that's taking the film festival circuit by storm...

By Rex Baylon For those Korean film fans that have an affinity for quiet settings and slightly damaged female characters, the films of ...

By Rex Baylon As the Berlin International Film Festival closes its doors for another year Korean cinema was not completely left out...