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The Far East Film Festival in Italy’s Udine has unveiled the full line-up for its 27th edition, which will honour Taiwanese actress and filmmaker Sylvia Chang with an honorary award.

Chang will receive Feff’s Golden Mulberry for lifetime achievement award in recognition of a career spanning several decades. Daughter’s Daughter, for which she received an honourable mention at Toronto in September, will screen at the festival alongside a restored version of Tsui Hark’s comedy Shanghai Blues from 1984.

The festival will open with Green Wave, a Chinese father-son comedy drama directed by Xu Lei, which won the...

Kim Go-Eun Byun Yo-Han Chat Leak ( Photo Credit – Instagram )

Kim Go-Eun and Byun Yo-Han’s past relationship surfaces after an alleged chat is leaked. Now, fans are divided and reacting mixedly to the whole fiasco. Read on.

On February 12, a post on the popular online forum for K-celebrity news circulated, stating Kim Go-Eun and Byun Yo-Han’s romance rumors after an alleged chat was leaked. The post featured an alleged screenshot of their conversation that fueled speculations about their reignited dating life. The chat showed a charged conversation between them, leading the fans to think about their past relationship.

Even though the authenticity of this leaked chat is unclear, the whole fiasco sparked mixed reactions from the fans. While Go-Eun is popularly known for her projects like Goblin, Exhuma, and others, Yo-Han is a well-known South Korean actor who worked in Mr. Sunshine, Uncle Samsik, and more. The conversation...

South Korea’s Plus M Entertainment arrives at the 2025 Berlin European Film Market (EFM) with a star-studded lineup led by “Squid Game 2” actor Kang Ha-neul in crime thriller “Yadang: The Snitch” and an international cast including Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Hwang Jung-min, Zo In-sung, and “Squid Game” actor Hoyeon in Na Hong-jin’s “Hope.”

“Yadang: The Snitch,” from the producers behind record-breaking hit “12:12 The Day” and “Inside Men,” follows professional informants called “yadang” who provide covert information about the drug world to prosecutors and police. When a drug bust at a party attended by high-profile second-generation VIPs leads to a dangerous conspiracy, a seasoned yadang must fight to survive. The film pairs Kang with “Exhuma” star Yoo Hai-jin and “The World of the Married” actor Park Hae-joon.

“Train to Busan” director Yeon Sang-ho returns with “The Ugly,” a mystery thriller starring “Harbin” lead Park Jeong-min and “Parasyte: The Grey” actor Kwon Hae-hyo,...

From record-breaking romances to revenge dramas full of incredible twists and turns, 2024's best K-dramas have been nothing short of entertaining. Though some of the shows have been well-anticipated successes, others have been a big surprise and have proven that a Netflix release isn't crucial to a K-drama's international success. In that way, the future of the genre is looking even more exciting.

2024's shows are some of the best K-dramas of all time and are all bingeworthy, despite their different tones and stories. Career-best performances, tightly woven storylines, and incredible K-drama couples are just some of the keys to their individual successes and show the very best of what the genre has to offer. These 2024 K-dramas make bold choices to deliver hours of entertainment and solidify them as must-watches for all K-drama fans.

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IMDb Rating

Love In The Big City

9.0

Lovely Runner

8.8

Death's Game

8.5

Queen of Tears

8.2

Mr....

South Korea’s Redice Entertainment has expanded into international film sales and will deliver its debut slate of titles at the European Film Market (EFM) in Berlin next month.

The Seoul-based company, known for creating popular webtoon Solo Leveling, has previously focused on distribution and investment but has been increasing its international ambitions over the past year.

At the EFM, it will unveil a sales slate led by crime drama Sister and horror thriller Killing Time.

Sister follows the harrowing journey of an undocumented immigrant who, desperate to secure funds for her ill sister’s surgery, resorts to planning an abduction.

Love in the Big City is finally coming to streaming in North America.

Rakuten Viki announced that the film will make its North American streaming debut on its platform on December 24.

The movie stars Kim Go-eun and Noh Sang-hyun, and first debuted at 2024 Toronto International Film Festival and was selected as the closing film at the 2024 London Korean Film Festival.

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The film was based off of the original novel of the same name, as was the popular K-drama series.

Here’s a plot summary: “Love in the Big City tells the story of Jae Hee (Kim Go-eun), whose sharp tongue and daring attitude places her at the center of gossip and hurtful rumors and Heung Soo (Noh Sang-hyun) who is set on keeping his gay identity a secret for life. One day, in the back alley of a hotel, Jae Hee discovers Heung Soo’s secret by chance.

Exclusive: Korean coming-of-age film Love in the Big City is set for a streaming release in North America on Rakuten Viki on December 24.

Adapted from a novel of the same name, the film had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, released domestically in South Korea on October 1 and was also named as the closing film for the London Korean Film Festival.

Love in the Big City stars Kim Go-eun and Steve Sang-hyun Noh (Pachinko).

The novel was also adapted into an eponymous drama series in Korea on Tving, and available in North America and other territories on Rakuten Viki.

Love in the Big City tells the story of free-spirited Jae-hee (played by Kim), who stumbles upon a secret about Heung-soo (Noh Sang-hyun). Jae-hee and Heung-soo move in to live together, and the two “misfits” bond as...

South Korea’s movie market hit a low point this weekend, with only $4.34 million made at the box office nationwide. This means the entertainment business will continue facing problems after a slow summer.

It was a close race at the box office this weekend, with “Venom: The Last Dance” barely hanging on to the top spot with $1.19 million. On the other hand, the newly released Korean romantic film “Hear Me: Our Summer” sold more tickets than Venom.

The funny and touching “Hear Me: Our Summer” is good. The story is based on a 2009 Taiwanese movie about a young man who falls in love while helping his hearing-impaired professional swimmer sister. The movie made a huge $1.65 million in its first five days in theaters. It was directed by Jo Seon-ho and produced by Hive Mediaworks.

Comedies set in the United States continued to do pretty well. With $534,000 over the weekend, “Amazon...

The South Korean theatrical box office sunk to its lowest-earning weekend of the year, despite the release of new films including “Hear Me: Our Summer,” “Red One” and “Anora.”

“Venom: The Last Dance” and “Hear Me: Our Summer” were essentially tied for first place.

“Venom: The Last Dance” held on to the top place in revenue terms with $1.19 million, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council. But local charts are ranked according to admissions and showed it in second place, due to its 168,000 ticket sales total.

“Hear Me: Our Summer” took $1.17 million but sold 169,000 tickets. The film is a Korean remake of a 2009 hit Taiwanese romantic comedy. A young man helps out with his sister, a hearing-impaired swimmer, and slowly falls in love with a girl he meets. It earned $1.65 million over its full five-day opening run. It hails from director Jo Seon-ho and Hive Mediaworks production company.

“Venom: The Last Dance” waltzed to a weekend win in South Korea, but failed to shake the country’s box office out of its recent torpor.

The third film in the “Venom” trilogy earned $2.66 million over the Friday to Sunday period, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). That represented a dominant 62% market share.

Over the five days since its opening on Wednesday, it built up a cumulative of $4.13 million. At that pace, the new film will struggle to overtake the $15.2 million total earned by “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” which was released in 2021 during the worst of the Covid pandemic.

That is indicative of a downturn at the Korean box office which is beginning to look like it has become structural. Across the nation, Korean cinema receipts were worth just $4.32 million over the latest weekend. By a narrow margin that was...

Korean-made crime-comedy-thriller “I The Executioner,” a sequel to 2015 hit ‘Veteran,” continued to top South Korea’s weekend box office. Its victory, however, was a hollow one as Korea’s overall box office slumped to its lowest level this year.

Nationwide, Korea’s roughly 2,500 cinemas together earned just $4.39 million between Friday and Sunday.

In several previous years, the month of October has been weak for cinemas in Korea, but the latest weekend total was a lower mid-October mark than either Covid-blighted 2022 or 2023’s recovery year.

The latest figures are in line with some of the gloomy discussion at the recently-concluded Busan International Film Festival, where the difficulties currently faced by theatrical cinema and the companies that supply and distribute it, were major talking points.

“I, The Executioner” earned $1.08 million in its fifth full weekend session, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). The...

People navigating love life and life in general is hardly a new subject in cinema and other art forms. Even the setting in which a straight woman lives with a gay man in the same apartment is not that new. However, Park Sang-young‘s novel “Love in the Big City” is not merely a Korean riff on, let’s say, Will and Grace TV series. On the contrary, it aims for something more earnest, realistic and aware of the wider societal context.

Love in the Big City is screening at Hawai’i International Film Festival

The best-selling novel is actually getting two releases this fall. While the TV series adaptation will hit the small screens later this month, the big screen one, penned by Kim Na-deul and helmed by E.oni, formerly known as Lee Eon-hee (of 2016 “Missing” fame), has already premiered at Toronto and screened at Hawaii International Film Festival.

Korean-made crime-comedy-thriller “I, The Executioner,” a sequel to 2015 hit ‘Veteran,” continued its spree at the top of the South Korea weekend box office. It earned $1.68 million in its fourth full weekend session, ahead of top-ranked new release “Joker: Folie a Deux.”

“I, The Executioner” saw its market share slip to 29%, according to data from Kobis, the tracking service operated by the Korean Film Council (Kofic). The latest weekend increment gives the film a $49.97 million running total since releasing on Sept. 13. That makes it the fourth highest grossing film of the year in the country, behind “Exhuma,” “The Roundup: Punishment” and “Inside Out 2,” which is still some distance ahead on $64 million.

“Joker: Folie a Deux” opened with $1.17 million between Friday and Sunday and achieved a 21% market share, according to Kobis. Over its full five-day opening run, which included Thursday’s National Foundation Day public holiday, it accumulated $3.60 million.

Released the same day (Oct.

The 19th edition of the London Korean Film Festival (Lkff), organised by the Korean Cultural Centre UK (Kccuk) and supported by the Korean Film Council, is proud to unveil its 2024 programme. The London Korean Film Festival will take place at BFI Southbank, Ciné Lumière, and Institute of Contemporary Arts (Ica) from 1 November to 13 November. It will feature two strands; Cinema Now and Women’s Voices, as well as a programme from the BFI Echoes in Time: Korean Films of the Golden Age and New Cinema.

Opening Gala Film: Park Beom-su‘s Victory

Closing Gala Film: E.oni‘s Love In The Big City

Special Screening: Choi Dong-hoon‘s Alienoid: Return To The Future

Victory by Park Beom-su will open the festival on the 6 November at BFI Southbank with the director in attendance. In 1999, two rebellious teenagers start a cheerleading squad for their provincial high school, bringing confidence and solidarity to themselves,...

Sometimes a film comes along and blindsides when you least expect it. The sublime surprise Love in the Big City is just such a film, enriching the landscape of Korean cinema in a year that has quietly seen low-key films return to the fore while their big-budget brethren have failed to capture the imagination of the public. That is not to say that Love in the Big City wasn't a title worth looking forward to. It stars the supremely talented Kim Go-eun, currently on a major hot streak, alongside rising Pachinko star Noh Sang-hyun (aka Steve Noh), is directed by E.oni, whose 2003 debut ...ing remains one of the most affecting Korean screen romances, and had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival....

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