By Pierce Conran Following his acclaimed indie 10 Minutes , director Lee Yong-seung once again examines the plight of the working man ...

By Pierce Conran In the same week that a new release was embraced by the media (Bong Joon-ho's Okja ), another was making headline...

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...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 3rd Korean Film Festival in Australia (previously published). Before getting into a discussion abou...

Before getting into a discussion about Jang Hoon’s much-ballyhooed new feature The Front Line , I feel that I should mention that over th...

With three big films under his belt, Jang Hoon is now seen as one of Korea's top directing talents.  His films have met with great s...

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 ...

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...