By Pierce Conran Korean horror isn't what it used to be. But it was never any one thing to begin with. For many years it was unfairly...

By Pierce Conran With a few hours left in 2019, it’s time to look back at the decade that was for Korean cinema. The industry really ...

By Pierce Conran Following what turned out to be one of the all-time best years of Korean cinema, 2017 had its work cut out for it, a...

By Pierce Conran An endearing family adventure, a bitter ecological plea and a rousing action film all rolled into one, Okja proves on...

By Pierce Conran After a stellar 2016, many are keen to see if Korean cinema can muster the same quality lineup in 2017. However, tho...

By Pierce Conran More so than usual, it took a long time to compile this year's 'most anticipated Korean films' list for ...

By Kyu Hyun Kim In the midst of global Star Wars mania, MKC contributor Kyu Hyun Kim imagines what a Star Wars Episode VIII might lo...

By Pierce Conran It looks like Snowpiercer isn't the only Bong Joon-ho film getting the remake treatment . I don't normally co...

By Pierce Conran The most well known Korean film of the last few years is coming back to screens, reimagined as an erotic parody. Bong...

By Pierce Conran The Berlin International Film Festival just held a press conference to announced the full jury for the international ...

Originally part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013), this article is reposted in light of its new B&W print being screene...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran To date, the summer of 2014 has seen the m...

By Pierce Conran To date, the summer of 2014 has seen the majority of mainstream Korean films fall into either of two categories: the...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran Cinema is a medium of motion and if ...

By Pierce Conran Deadline has just broken the news that Bong Joon-ho and The Weinstein Company have finally reached on agreement on Sn...

It’s no secret that South Korea has for the last few decades been a wellspring for foreign animators to outsource their grunt work to, t...

In the last weekend before many schools start their new terms, business had a last hurrah with 3.24 million tickets sold over the frame, ...

This first weekend in August is always a busy time in Korea and though this one was poised to post massive figures, few could have forese...

Cinema is a medium of motion and if anyone understands this, it appears to be Bong Joon-ho, whose visionary new work is a demented and s...

Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013). Outside of a few clear candidates, pinpointing revenge films isn’t quite as e...