By Pierce Conran With a few hours left in 2019, it’s time to look back at the decade that was for Korean cinema. The industry really ...

By Pierce Conran You won't find any big surprise at the top of this list, but beyond the obvious choice for best film of the year...

By Pierce Conran Thanks to Lee Chang-dong and a few late year surprises, 2018 saw the Korean film industry churn out enough quality p...

By Pierce Conran Beauty and obsession go under the knife in Juhn Jai-hong’s debut Beautiful (2008), a clinical observation of desir...

By Pierce Conran Ten years after her feature debut What Are We Waiting For? , documentarian Kim Hyun-kung returns with an intimate fi...

By Pierce Conran After what had been a slow year Korean cinema received a huge shot of adrenaline with  Assassination , the latest f...

By Pierce Conran One of the more high profile among the many China-Korea collaborations of the last few years (prior to the THAAD-rela...

By Pierce Conran Following Hong Sangsoo's career guarantees for viewers, at the very least, one thing - developing a keen eye for ...

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

By Pierce Conran The last few BIFFs have each afforded us one great documentary ( Non-Fiction Diary , Factory Complex ), and 2015 prov...

By Pierce Conran Three years after his debut Over and Over Again , director Kim Byung-june returned to Busan with a much livelier effo...

By Pierce Conran The wild card in the quartet of major Korean releases released in 2014's high summer season (alongside Assassinat...