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Asian cinema: Korean films
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Revelations: Ryu Jun-yeol leads Yeon Sang-ho’s disappointing Netflix thriller
A flimsy plot and sketchy logic spoil this story of a pastor and a detective who go after a recently released sex offender.
18 Mar 2025 - 8:30PM
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Who is Park Bo-gum, IU’s co-star in Netflix’s When Life Gives You Tangerines?
15 Mar 2025 - 10:01AM
Asian cinema: Korean films
Twice’s Dahyun aims to bring joy with You Are the Apple of My Eye role
3 Mar 2025 - 11:15AM
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Asian cinema: Korean films
Bong Joon-ho on the message of sci-fi Mickey 17, starring Robert Pattinson
Korean director hails Pattinson’s ‘excellent’ playing of two versions of his character in a film about persistence in the face of adversity.
23 Feb 2025 - 2:45PM
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Bong Joon-ho and Robert Pattinson at the Berlin International Film Festival. Photo: dpa via AP
Asian cinema: Korean films
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What Does that Nature Say to You: Hong Sang-soo finds humour in domesticity
Korean director’s film examines, with humour, the difficulties of artistic life through the lens of a man meeting his girlfriend’s family.
21 Feb 2025 - 9:44AM
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Why 2000 movie Joint Security Area resonates still, and why that’s ‘sad’
Park Chan-wook’s 2000 film Joint Security Area told a controversial story of friendship between North and South Korean soldiers.
21 Feb 2025 - 7:15AM
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Kim Sae-ron the latest in a long line of Korean stars bullied to death
Korean celebrities may be loved by their fans, but make one slip-up and the online abuse starts, often fuelled by mass media.
20 Feb 2025 - 4:34PM
South Korean actress Kim Sae-ron, 24, at the 2017 Mnet Asian Music Awards in Hong Kong. She was found dead at home after enduring years of online abuse following a drink-driving incident. Photo: Reuters
Asian cinema: Korean films
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Forbidden Fairytale: bubbly Korean sex comedy is closed-minded and prudish
Park Ji-hyun plays a youth protection officer who starts writing pornography to pay for car repairs in this non-risqué erotic comedy.
18 Feb 2025 - 3:00PM
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TV shows and streaming video
From XO, Kitty to The Recruit, Korea popular for location filming
South Korea draws many foreign TV and film productions, but risks losing out as Japan and Thailand offer bigger incentives, insiders say.
17 Feb 2025 - 11:15AM
Asian cinema: Korean films
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Mickey 17, wild sci-fi satire from Parasite’s Bong Joon-ho
Robert Pattinson plays the titular Mickey, a loser sent into space, where he is cloned with hilarious results in this cult-novel adaptation.
17 Feb 2025 - 8:29AM
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K-drama news
Manny Pacquiao in Physical: Asia and more 2025 Netflix Korean content
Netflix pushes Korean content including boxer Manny Pacquiao in Physical: Asia, successor to Physical: 100, and new seasons of top shows.
6 Feb 2025 - 10:55AM
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Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao is featuring in Netflix show Physical Asia. Photo: AFP
Asian cinema: Korean films
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Dark Nuns: Korean exorcism horror with Song Hye-kyo, Jeon Yeo-been
Two nuns resort to extreme measures, including exorcism, to save the life of a possessed boy, and in the process defy their church superiors.
5 Feb 2025 - 4:45PM
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Ha Jung-woo on ‘tremendous anger’ behind his new film Nocturnal
Korean actor talks about Nocturnal director Kim Jin-hwang’s unique vision, working with new people and connecting with fans on social media.
28 Jan 2025 - 7:15AM
Asian cinema: Korean films
Why Dark Nuns actress Song Hye-kyo is taking on darker roles
Back on screen in Dark Nuns, movie about nuns saving a boy who is possessed, Korean actress says The Glory reignited her passion for acting.
5 Feb 2025 - 3:57PM
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Korean actress Kim Min-hee pregnant with first child at 42
Director Hong Sang-soo, 64, left his wife for actress Kim Min-hee in 2015. The child she is carrying will be the first for both of them.
19 Jan 2025 - 1:18PM
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Korean actress Kim Min-hee and film director Hong Sang-soo, who it has been revealed are having a child together, who will be the first for both of them. Photo: Instagram/hong.sangsoo, Reuters/Pool
Asian cinema: Korean films
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K-Family Affairs: how a family endured 30 years of Korean political turmoil
Nam A-rum’s documentary is an intimate study of her family, her civil servant father and former activist mother, told through home movies.
15 Jan 2025 - 4:45PM
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Asian cinema: Korean films
Best movie roles of Squid Game season 2’s new players
Do they look familiar? From Park Sung-hoon to Kang Ha-neul, we look at films new Squid Game actors were in before entering the deadly arena.
8 Jan 2025 - 4:15PM
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Song Joong-ki opens up on Bogota struggles and why he supports Hyun Bin
Song, whose new film Bogota: City of the Lost was heavily delayed by the Covid-19 pandemic, says he is driven by a sense of challenge.
27 Dec 2024 - 3:04PM
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Korean actor Song Joong-ki, 39, says that his new movie, Bogota: City of the Lost, is fundamentally about responsibility. Photo: Instagram/hi_songjoongki
Asian cinema: Korean films
‘I’m second,’ says South Korean star Hyun Bin on life now he’s a dad
Hyun Bin says his son and his wife, Crash Landing on You co-star Son Ye-jin, are his priorities, and reveals the pressures of making Harbin.
19 Jan 2025 - 10:35AM
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Hidden Face, a Korean erotic thriller, serves up scandalous fun
This sexy K-movie follows a conductor who sleeps with the replacement player for his cellist fiancée, who seems to have disappeared.
23 Dec 2024 - 1:15PM
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Asian cinema
The 12 best Asian films of 2024, including The Last Dance
From a Thai tear-jerker to a Korean cross-dressing romcom and a hand-drawn Japanese anime, our pick of the best Asian films of the past year.
19 Dec 2024 - 7:15AM
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Will these films draw Koreans back to cinema after protests over Yoon?
Cinema-going fell in South Korea amid mass protests after President Yoon Suk-yeol’s martial law declaration. Distributors hope for a rebound.
16 Dec 2024 - 2:15PM
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Lee Hee-joon (left) and Song Joong-ki in a still from Bogota: City of the Lost, one of two big domestic productions distributors hope will draw South Koreans back to cinemas. Photo: Plus M Entertainment and Watermelon Pictures
Fame and celebrity
Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung on fame and her sense of humour
Youn Yuh-jung, who won an Oscar for her role in Minari, shares her views on celebrity, and what makes her laugh.
7 Dec 2024 - 11:15AM
K-drama news
Jeongnyeon: The Star Is Born role’s special meaning for Moon So-ri
Korean actress was driven to appear in drama by thought of her late musical drama teacher, and practised a year to play lead character’s mum.
14 Jan 2025 - 2:02PM
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Asia travel
K-drama sets, like sites linked to K-pop idols, a growing tourist draw
South Korea’s tourism is booming, and much of it is down to devotees of Korean dramas and K-pop who want to visit sites associated with them.
25 Nov 2024 - 8:36AM
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