Kim Hye-yoon has appeared in 50 productions since her debut in 2013. We look back at her career, from her breakthrough parts to roles in hit K-dramas and films including SKY Castle, Midnight and Ditto.
Ko Young-ok, South Korea’s first ‘full-time’ food stylist for K-dramas and films, recalls a mad dash around Macau for a scene in K-drama Princess Hours, and reveals the advice she gives her students.
Korean filmmakers often turn to Japanese movies, manga and fiction for inspiration. From Oldboy to Josée and Little Forest, we pick our top 10 Korean film adaptations of Japanese originals.
Netflix drama My Name is Loh Kiwan follows a North Korean defector – played by heartthrob Song Joong-ki – who is seeking asylum in Belgium fall in with a woman embroiled in the city’s criminal underworld.
The Roundup: Punishment, which premiered at this year’s Berlin International Film Festival, sees Korean hard man Ma Dong-seok return as a no-nonsense cop who punches his way through a gang of internet scammers.
The Birth of Korea portrays South Korea’s first president, Syngman Rhee, as good, contrary to popular belief. The biopic is a box-office hit, but has reignited culture wars between right- and left- wing groups.
Korean director Hong Sang-soo returns to the Berlin International Film Festival with another typically opaque drama – in A Traveler’s Needs, Isabelle Huppert plays a mystery woman teaching French in Korea.
North Korean-themed 1999 film Shiri was followed by a succession of South Korean box office hits about North Korea. From Joint Security Area to The Spy Gone North, here are our top 10 picks.
Ma Dong-seok leads this Netflix drama as Nam San, a hunter looking for his kidnapped surrogate daughter in an apocalyptic wasteland, in a film filled with violence and B-movie clichés.
Korean actor Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee) talks about working with Badland Hunters’ director Heo Myung-haeng, adding comic elements to the new Netflix action movie, and relying on more than his fists.
Korean sci-fi fantasy Alienoid’s sequel, Alienoid: Return to the Future, is thrilling enough, but without a clear definition of its mythology the film is little more than a jumble of ideas.
South Korean actress Bae Doona talks about playing the mysterious swordswoman Nemesis in Zak Snyder’s Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire, from the training to the make-up.
Korean star Jang Dong-yoon led six productions in 2023, including period school drama Oasis, romantic film Long D and hit Netflix series Daily Dose of Sunshine. We look back at his career.
Believer 2 may be awful, but there are plenty of far superior Korean film sequels to see. We rank the 10 best, including The Roundup, Steel Flower and Memento Mori.
Actor Song Kang-ho, star of Parasite and Broker, was at the Hong Kong Asian Film Festival 2023 with his new film, Cobweb. He tells the Post what makes his movies so successful outside Korea.
Korean actor Ji Chang-wook, currently on screens in The Worst of Evil with one of the stars of Squid Game, has been wowing audiences since his screen debut in 2008. We look back at his career.
Concerning My Daughter, starring Im Se-mi, and Yellow Door, a documentary that reunited director Bong Joon-ho with old friends, were among the top premieres at the 2023 Busan International Film Festival.
Film clubs sprang up across South Korea, some of whose members, such as Bong Joon-ho and Lee Hyuk-rae, later became directors. This film shows them and others looking back, sometimes in embarrassment.
Jung Yoon-suk’s Dear Jinri is a heartbreaking documentary built around the final interview given by K-pop star Sulli of girl group f(x) – recorded ‘shortly before her passing’ in 2019.
Starring Cho Jin-woong, Cha Seung-won and Han Hyo-joo, new Korean action movie Believer 2 on Netflix is an orgy of senseless violence that adds nothing but questions to its far superior forerunner.
Ko A-sung stars as Gye-na, a young Korean woman who moves to New Zealand to start a new life in this muddled story that was shown as part of the 2023 Busan festival’s Korean Diasporic Cinema programme.