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

By Rex Baylon Bawdy Korean comedies more often than not fall on deaf ears when they reach foreign audiences and Shin Han-sol's n...

By Rex Baylon Lee Kwang-kuk returns after a two year hiatus with his sophomore film A Matter of Interpretation . For those who might...

By Pierce Conran Three years after making a big splash in Sunny (2011), young actress Shim Eun-kyung returns in the Lunar New Year...

Korean cinema has gotten very good at staging impressive onscreen spectacle in recent years. Though $10 million budgets used to be a rare...

Many films passed through Korean theaters last year and a great number of them made their presence felt. But of course for every chart-...

The gangster comedy, once one the biggest money-spinners in the Korean film industry, has fallen out of favor recently. Truth is, most ...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 16th Puchon International Film Festival. What is it that draws us time and again to narratives fo...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 16th Puchon International Film Festival. Comedy is a curious beast even at the best of times. A...

“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...

Originally posted on New Korean Cinema on January 24th, 2012 Genre-blending is a very prevalent technique in Korean cinema, the...

Originally posted on New Korean Cinema  on January 24th, 2012 Once upon a time during a cold, wet winter’s night, my tattered shoes ...

The villagers look on as North Korea invades Since Korean cinema reemerged at the end of the 1990s one of the most popular topics it ha...

The Flipside of Realism: Analysing the attraction of comedic representations of gangster culture in contemporary South Korean cinema. By Con...

One of my favorite Korean films is Save the Green Planet (2003).  More than any other, it blithely disregarded generic compatibility and sp...