By Pierce Conran Korean horror has been in the midst of a rough streak for the past half decade. Relying on worn out themes, new works b...

Simplicity is in rare supply in Korean cinema these days, so when a film like Koala comes along, it does so as a breath of fresh air. Na...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 14th Jeonju International Film Festival. When it comes to what we expect to see on screen, it’s w...

Ensemble casts and high concept scripts seems to be all the rage these days in Korean cinema and An Ethics Lesson , billed as an erotic t...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 17th Busan International Film Festival. If Cold War , the opening film of this year’s Busan Film Fe...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 3rd Korean Film Festival in Australia (previously published). It’s easy to forget sometimes how r...

It’s easy to forget sometimes how rigid the rules can be concerning the technical aspects behind the making of a film.  When done right, eve...

Like a great many other males of this earth, I am frequently seized with an insuppressible feeling of revulsion when faced with the prospect...

Sol Kyung-gu was the first Korean actor whose name I remembered and after his extraordinary turn in Peppermint Candy (1999) I was convinced...

With the release of his tenth film earlier this year ( Romantic Heaven , 2011), it is a good time to look back over Jang Jin’s impressive ou...

“The recovery of the self remains as the objective in these films, but … the subjectivity reconstituted or denied in the end is the man’s al...

Possessed (also known as Living Death or Disbelief Hell ) is the first feature from former architect Lee Yong-ju. It is a supernatural hor...

A fair amount has been written about this film and very little of it is positive. At its core, Haeundae is a mawkish melodrama that serves ...