By Pierce Conran Wrapping a raft of social issues plaguing modern Korean society into a simple allegory, Collective Invention , a quir...

By Pierce Conran For his live-action debut Train to Busan , indie animation director Yeon Sang-ho, whose films The King of Pigs and T...

By Pierce Conran Following the record-breaking success of Roaring Currents , Choi Min-sik returns to screens in another big-budget pe...

By Pierce Conran Modern thrillers live or die by their twists, and while an unexpected and well-executed surprise can elevate a film f...

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 Following her accomplished sophomore film, the absorbing high school revenge tale Pluto (2012), Shin Su-won returns ...

By Pierce Conran In the wake of the record-breaking success of last summer's Roaring Currents , Kim Han-min is opting to remain in...

By Pierce Conran Following the busy Lunar New Year holiday, admissions fell to 1.97 admissions over the weekend but the main victims...

By Chris Horn There is perhaps no region better suited to make a unique anti-war film than Korea, a country itself split and in a con...

By Pierce Conran Business shot up 70% over last week, as 3.88 million holiday spectators flooded the theaters, however that figure was...

By Pierce Conran Yim Soonrye could lay claim to being the first female director to forge a lasting career in the Korean film ind...

By Chris Horn There’s no question that Korean period films have continued to increase in popularity in recent years as three of the...

By Pierce Conran Bae Doo-na is close to signing on to what would be her first commercial Korean film since 2012's As One . The fil...

By Pierce Conran Ambition, artistry and Korea’s painful recent past combine to fascinating results in The Old Garden (2006), an i...

By Pierce Conran Detective Kim is back with his trusty sidekick Seo-pil in the follow up to 2011’s hit period action-comedy Detective ...

Every Friday I appear on a segment called Reel Talk for Arirang TV on the 2 o'clock news, mostly covering Korean cinema. The Lun...

By Pierce Conran Yesterday, JK Youn's Ode to My Father surpassed  The Host (2006) and The Thieves (2012) to become the second m...

By Pierce Conran South Korea's film industry topped the two trillion won mark for the first time in 2014, reaching 2.03 trillion...

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 Pierce Conran Every so often, Korean cinema presents us with a new film, filled with the promise of titillating erotica. Invari...