South Korea’s animation industry was barely a blip on the radar when the TV animation series “Pororo the Little Penguin” debuted 10 years ago. But it didn’t take long before the country became the world’s fifth largest producer of animation based on the skyrocketing popularity of the series.The TV series has since been exported to 120 countries around the world while the penguin character Pororo has remained as an unrivaled favorite among Korean toddlers and preschoolers.To support the great adv

NEW YORK (AP) ― The 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival will feature everything from Will Forte’s dramatic film debut to a tale of Arctic cowboys herding reindeer.The New York festival on Tuesday announced 46 of the 89 feature films that will make up this year’s lineup. The films include those in competition at Tribeca, in both narrative and documentary categories, as well as those in its out-of-competition “Viewpoints’’ section that highlights unique perspectives.This year’s slate, culled from mo

’Our Homeland’ gets Korean releaseBy Claire LeeA Japanese-born director’s award-winning film is being released in Korea in March, according to the film’s promoters.Director Yang Yong-hi, who was born and grew up in Osaka and obtained her South Korean citizenship in 2004, has been making documentaries based on her family history of ethnic Koreans living in Japan. “Our Homeland,” which is Yang’s feature debut, was premiered in Korea at last year’s Busan International Film Festival and received pos

As two Korean films, “Miracle in Cell No. 7” and “The Berlin File” swept the local box office, homegrown films grabbed their biggest bite of the growing movie market in seven years.According to the Korean Film Council, the total number of ticket sales, combining both Korean and foreign films, reached well over 21 million in February, up 67.03 percent from a year ago.The growth in the number of movie-goers was led mainly by the popularity of Korean films, which accounted for 82.9 percent of overa

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― Critics blasted Oscars host Seth MacFarlane on Monday for “crudely sexist antics” and peddling “offensive” Jewish stereotypes, as the Academy Awards post mortem got into full swing.Others said the “Family Guy” creator, brought in to appeal to younger viewers with edgy humor, was simply dull ― while satirical website The Onion had to apologize for an expletive tweet about the youngest-ever Oscar nominee.“Well, that didn’t work,” wrote the Los Angeles Times’ television critic a