By Pierce Conran For the third year on the trot, and after already receiving two prizes, director Ko Bong-soo returns to the Jeonju I...

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

By Pierce Conran Expectations play a large role in how we consume and react to cinema, particularly in the commercial realm. Genre fo...

Grand romance, as depicted on screen, written on the page or sung into a microphone, is the stuff of dreams. We crave it and feel it vica...

Arrested development has been a very prescient theme in Western media. The man-child, geek, otaku; no matter what you call it we are liv...

In the film business these days, China seems to be the word on everyone lips as its market is in the midst of a breathless expansion. Ho...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 15th Udine Far East Film Festival. Being one of the more tired genres to litter the multiplexe...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 11th New York Asian Film Festival. Mainstream cinema has the potential to demonstrate both the be...

Korea’s breathless transformation from an outlying nation into one of the world’s leading economies is nothing short of astonishing.  The...

Korean romcoms are a dime a dozen in Korea, this is well known, the good news is that most of them are quite good, which is also well know b...