What comes first? Love or responsibility? That’s the question asked by Wonderful Life, the latest blockbuster K-Drama from MBC! Han Seung Wan (Kim Jae Won of 100 Days with Mr. Arrogant and the MBC drama Romance) is a handsome and cool single guy…and he knows it! Seung Wan thinks women love him, and he enjoys [...]

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Based on Kim Hoon’s Song of The Sword and Kim Tak Hwan’s Immortality, KBS’s outstanding 2005 historical drama The Immortal Lee Soon Shin is one of the most ambitious works the genre has seen in years. Spanning 104 episodes (edited to 33 by the makers of the show for this two-volume special edition), the drama [...]

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From Damo and Dae Jang Geum to Hwang Jin Yi and Jumong, period dramas have delivered some of Korean television’s biggest stories and highest ratings in the last few years, and this trend all began in 1999 with MBC’s Hur Jun (a.k.a. The Legendary Doctor – Hur Jun). Created by veteran producer Lee Byung Hoon [...]

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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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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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Before his highly acclaimed roles in Hotelier and Winter Sonata, Korean superstar and “K-Drama King” Bae Yong-Jun starred in Did We Really Love?, a 44-episode mini-series that magnificently portrays the struggles between love, happiness, and the pursuit of material success. Kang Jae-Ho (Bae Yong-Jun) is determined to raise his social status. And life seems determined [...]

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Korea’s spectacular new drama is here! Rain (Jung Ji Hyoon) and Shin Min A are the stars of the red hot KBS drama of the winter season, A Love to Kill. Now the sounds of the drama are ready to rock all true fans. Brought to life with the assistance of K-pop’s biggest hit producer, [...]

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Before his highly acclaimed roles in Hotelier and Winter Sonata, Korean superstar and “K-Drama King” Bae Yong-Jun starred in Did We Really Love?, a 44-episode mini-series that magnificently portrays the struggles between love, happiness, and the pursuit of material success. Kang Jae-Ho (Bae Yong-Jun) is determined to raise his social status. And life seems determined [...]

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A spool of “sageuk”, or period dramas, reeled out in 2007. With the blockbuster hit Jumong kicking off the lead, dramas like Dae Jo Young, Four Gods, The King And I, Hansungbyulgok, and Yi San soon followed. Amongst these historical fusion dramas, Hansungbyulgok (a.k.a. Seoul’s Sad Song and Conspiracy in the Court) stands tall for [...]

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