Kim Min-hee wins best actress at Gijon Int’l Film Fest Actress Kim Min-hee has nabbed another award for best actress, this time at the Gijon International Film Festival which took place in Spain from Nov. 17-25. Kim won the award for her performance in Hong Sang-soo’s “On the Beach at Night Alone.” Kim previously won best actress at the Berlin International Film Festival in February for the same role. Actress Kim Min-hee speaks during the award winners press conference for the film “On the Beach

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"A Taxi Driver," a local box office hit about a pro-democracy uprising in the country, won best picture at the 38th annual Blue Dragon Awards, one of the nation's top two film honors, on Saturday.The movie took home best film and best actor awards during the ceremony held at Kyunghee University in eastern Seoul. This image released by Showbox shows a promotional poster for "A Taxi Driver." (Yonhap)Song Kang-ho was honored for his role as the eponymous Seoul taxi driver who takes the late German

The Swindlers (Korea)Opened Nov. 22Action, crime. Directed by Jang Chang-won Ambitious, ruthless prosecutor Park Hee-soo (Yoo Ji-tae) decides to venture outside the law and employ the help of a gang of scammers to entrap another renowned scam artist. Skilled scammer Hwang Ji-sung (Hyun Bin) is central to the plan, hatching a grand scheme to both help Park and catch his father’s killer. Prosecutor Park goes on to form precarious ties with politicians and does not hesitate to delve into the illega

The monthslong protests starting from October last year -- which took place mostly at Seoul’s Gwanghwamun Plaza and toppled former President Park Geun-hye’s scandal-ridden administration -- may seem like just yesterday to many Koreans. “Whether it is 1987 or 2017, the plaza has always belonged to the people. I wanted to tell a story in which the people are the main characters,” said director Jang Joon-hwan of his upcoming film “1987: When the Day Comes” in a press conference Wednesday.Born from

Korean director Gina Kim’s “Bloodless” won the award for best virtual reality film at the 58th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, which ran through Nov. 12. The 12-minute work was awarded best film by a separate international jury at the Greek film festival’s 58th edition. The award comes with a prize of 3,000 euros. 　Thessaloniki’s newly created section dedicated to virtual reality films had 10 contenders this year. A special mention went to “Notes On Blindess,” helmed by British directo

Justice League(US)Opened Nov. 15Action, science fiction. Directed by Zack Snyder. Superman (Henry Cavill), the defender of mankind, has died. The villainous alien military officer Steppenwolf (Ciaran Hinds) has seized this opportunity to lead an army of Parademons into Gotham City, in search of the three ancient Mother Boxes scattered across Earth. Bruce Wayne (Ben Affleck) and his newfound ally Diana Prince (Gal Gadot) gather a team of heroes and outcasts including Barry Allen (Ezra Miller), Ar

The director of the new action blockbuster "Steel Rain" said on Wednesday he wanted to raise the need to take a "cool-headed" look at inter-Korean relations through his new action movie."North Korea is a country of the same tribe but clearly is our enemy at the same time, which makes it difficult for us to look at inter-Korean relations in a cool-headed manner," Yang Woo-suk said during a news conference for the forthcoming film. "We can find a solution when we look more cool-headedly at the rel

Gangnam Police Station on Tuesday released black box footage from actor Kim Joo-hyuk’s car showing the moments leading up to the crash that killed him.　The police discovered the black box beneath the passenger seat of Kim’s Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen. The video shows Kim’s car suddenly slowing, then steering erratically. It hits another car while attempting to change lanes, before suddenly veering off the road, across the sidewalk and into a building. 　The video has no audio recording, lending little

Kim Yong-hwa, writer-director of the local fantasy film "Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds," said on Tuesday he chose to maximize the original webtoon's dramatic tension to make it into a gripping film. The film set to open on Dec. 20 is the first installment of a two-part series based on a sensational webtoon of the same title by Joo Ho-min, which depicts a dead man who is judged in seven hells for 49 days, guided by three grim reapers. "When I first read the original webtoon at the request f

Hyun Bin has been working nonstop in recent years. 　After rising to popularity through the 2005 romantic comedy series “My Lovely Sam-soon,” the actor cemented a heartthrob status with the 2010 drama “Secret Garden,” where he played the irritable but charming heir to a vast fortune with a penchant for flamboyant fashion. 　He completed his military service, and returned to screens with drama series “Hyde, Jekyll, Me” and the period film “The Fatal Encounter.” 　 Hyun Bin poses in a photo shoot pri

Veteran singer Lee Seung-chul is creating a documentary highlighting the life of war veterans of the Korean War in collaboration with public broadcaster KBS, the singer said."There are so many countries in the world that joined the Korean War that we don't know of. I feel sorry for the fact that there are only a few left alive and they are being forgotten," Lee told Yonhap News Agency in a recent interview.It was around 2010 when he met a French war veteran at an event organized by the Ministry

A Hong Kong film director gave gold bracelets as a wedding gift to Song Joong-ki and Song Hye-kyo. Korean media outlet Sports Seoul reported Sunday that Wong Kar-wai, a celebrated filmmaker from Hong Kong, had sent the gift to the couple, citing an official from the Chinese film industry.  (Online Community)The couple, who both starred in the popular series “Descendants of the Sun,” tied the knot on Oct. 31 in Seoul. According to the report, Wong gave the bracelets to the couple through his prod

A press screening of the upcoming crime thriller “The Swindlers,” starring Hyun Bin and Yoo Ji-tae, took place Friday in Seoul.　Yoo stars as ambitious and ruthless prosecutor Park Hee-soo, who teams up with a gang of scammers to catch another renowned scam artist. It is yet another character chasing justice at any price that Yoo has taken. He currently stars as a hotheaded policeman-turned-insurance investigator willing to go to any lengths to find justice in the drama series “Mad Dog.” 　Yoo Ji-

Son Ye-jin will be meeting movie fans at a special exhibition of popular Korean romance movies taking place until Nov. 15. 　The actress will be hosting an open talk at the Lotte Cinema World Tower on Nov. 15. 　Six films -- “A Moment to Remember” (2004), “The Classic” (2003), starring actress Son, “Bungee Jumping of Their Own” (2001), “Man In Love” (2014), “Architecture 101” (2012) and “The Beauty Inside” (2015) -- are being screened at Lotte Cinema theaters throughout the country as part of the