About the Money War As soon as it premiered, Money’s Warfare became an instant attraction. First, the SBS drama is about everyone’s favorite topic of conversation – money. Second, it stars Park Shin Yang, the ever-charismatic actor from Lovers in Paris, who started a craze with the charming one-liner “Ae-gee-ya!”, which literally translates as “Baby!” [...]

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The biggest Korean film of the year comes to DVD! Released in July 2006, Bong Joon Ho’s monster film The Host ripped through the box office like a force of nature. Breaking every record on the book, The Host became the first Korean film to sell 13 million tickets, surpassing the all-time record held by [...]

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In the past two years, the Korean Film Archive has been gradually releasing early Korean cinema classics on DVD. Of the half dozen films released so far, the KOFA has focused most of its efforts on the works of 50s Chungmuro pioneer Han Hyung Mo. He was cinematographer for the collection’s first title, Hurrah For [...]

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Commissioned by South Korea’s National Human Rights Commission, If You Were Me is an innovative omnibus film project to promote tolerance and human rights and shed light on the hardships disadvantaged people face in Korea. After the success of the first anthology, a second series, If You Were Me 2, was released this year. Five [...]

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The Host director Bong Joon Ho presents a different kind of monster in a searing, subversive mystery thriller that rips through the facade of small-town Korea.

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This morning I saw an ad at the ABS-CBN about the up-coming start of the Korean TV series, “Which Stars Are You From”. Actually, this Korean TV series is already available in DVD for only $53.99 (current as of writing this post) with English Subtitle. It’s one of the MBC TV Drama that became part [...]

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New filmmaker Hwang Byung Guk makes a memorable directorial debut with his film Wedding Campaign, a winning tale of two unmarried men looking for a little female companionship. In a desperate attempt to get married, the two bachelors sign up for a trip that takes them all the way to Uzbekistan in search of ethnic [...]

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Legendary Korean director Shin Sang Ok passed away in April 2006 at the age of 80. In recognition of the master filmmaker’s contributions to Korean film, he was posthumously awarded the Gold Crown Cultural Medal, the highest honor for an artist. In a career spanning over half a century, Shin directed over 70 films and [...]

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Although Korea was slowly coming to terms with democratization in the early 90s, Korean cinema was suffering its worst crisis to date: theater admissions were touching an all-time low, and the rapid growth of Hollywood’s influence on the market after its liberalization in 1988 led But one of the first signs of what would become [...]

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Superstar Jang Dong Gun returns to the silver screen in impeccable style in the highly anticipated blockbuster Good Morning President from acclaimed writer-director Jang Jin (Righteous Ties).

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