The folk legend of Gumiho, the nine-tailed fox who wants to become human, first appeared in the 1994 film The Fox With Nine Tails, starring Go So Young and Jung Woo Sung. Twelve long years later, Lee Hyung Gon, the man responsible for the storyboard of one of Korea’s first real blockbusters, has come back, [...]

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Director Choi Ho takes an uncompromising look at Korea’s drug problem in the hard-hitting, cynical film noir, Bloody Tie. Sang Do (Ryoo Seung Bum – Crying Fist, Arahan) is a small time player on the way up. A crystal meth dealer (known in Korea as ppong) with a tragic family history, he is forced to [...]

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Directed by Kwak Kyung Taek, the 2002 film Champion revisits Korea in the early 1980s and shows one man’s struggle to lift himself out of poverty and turn himself into a boxing champion. The film is based on the true story of legendary boxer Kim Deuk Gu. Starring as the Champion is Yoo Oh Sung [...]

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Directed by Hyun Nam Seob, Saving My Hubby takes the audience on a whirlwind adventure through Korea’s underworld from the perspective of a housewife with a baby on her back. The versatile Bae Du Na (Take Care of My Cat, The Host) stars in this quirky and entertaining 2002 comedy that serves up laughter and [...]

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Maverick director Kim Ki Duk and top star Jang Dong Gun teamed up in 2002 for the thriller The Coast Guard. As can be expected from Kim, the film is a brilliant, if harrowing ride, tracing the psychological derailing of a soldier played by Jang. Amidst the dark themes and unsettling violence, The Coast Guard [...]

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Sometimes it takes a humble Bunt to win the game. Esteemed actor Jung Jin Young, perhaps best known for his role as the king in King and The Clown, explores the difficulties of parenthood in Park Kyu Tae’s gentle 2007 debut film. Like Marathon and Herb, Bunt offers a mixture of harried hardships and childish [...]

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Directed by Kim Jin Min, Au Revoir! UFO is a simple and touching romantic comedy that builds on the charm and chemistry of its two leads. Released in 2004, the film stars top actor Lee Bum Soo (City of Violence) and the late Lee Eun Joo. While some yearn for passion and excitement, simple-minded bus [...]

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Lee Eon Hee makes a fantastic directorial debut with this simple, poignant tale of young love. Containing a mother-daughter relationship that is as touching as it is unconventional, this unusually titled film centers on Gang Min Ah (Lim Soo Jung, star of A Tale of Two Sisters), a sickly high school girl who’s been in [...]

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A recent survey asked college students in Seoul what they thought about one night stands, and surprisingly 45.5% answered they had no problems with sex on the first meeting. In keeping with times, chaste melodramas are also making way for more sexually liberated takes on modern relationships, what with recent films like Sex is Zero, [...]

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Hot new Korean thriller Running Wild explores the darker side of man’s behavior, examining the dark side that is within us all, and what happens when that beast is awakened. Kwon Sang Woo (Love So Divine) stars as Jang, a jaded homicide detective who has lost faith in the system. He has been struggling to [...]

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