Was Ha Ji-won Snubbed at Daejong Film Award?

Singer-turned-actress Jang Nara’s nomination for Best Actress at the upcoming Daejong (Grand Bell) Film Festival, the country’s most prestigious film awards, has sparked a stormy debate.
The festival’s nomination of Jang for Korea’s equivalent of the Oscars was met with surprise by many as her film “The Sky and the Sea,” in which she plays the [...]

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Pusan Film Fest 2009 Kicks Off In Style

Busan - The 14th edition of the Pusan (Busan) International Film Fstival (PIFF) kicked off Thursday with glitz and glam. Some 150 star cineastes and VIP guests walked the red carpet, sizzling up the cool autumn evening at the seaside resort.
The Busan Yatching Center Outdoor Theater exploded with excitement, as more than the usual number [...]

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Korean Box Office Earns Highest Third Quarter Ever

The Korean Box Office made more in this just completed third quarter than it ever has in its history. As well as this not unpredicted result the revenue share of Korean films also increased. This very welcome news that comes amid a projected 3 year film industry slump amongst a general, worldwide recession is due [...]

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Haeundae Uploader Apprehended

An audio technician for the visually impaired was the culprit in the illegal upload for the South Korean summer blockbuster “Haeundae,” police said Thursday, taking three people into custody on charges of digital piracy.
An illegal copy of the big-budget disaster flick was uploaded onto a local file-sharing site on Aug. 29 and downloaded hundreds of [...]

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Jang Dong-gun’s Good Morning, President to Open PIFF

Director Jang Jin’s latest political comedy starring Jang Dong-gun as Korea’s youngest president-elect will open this year’s Pusan International Film Festival, to be held in the nation’s southeastern port city Oct. 8-16.
Announced during the official PIFF news conference on Tuesday at the Press Center in central Seoul, the selection came as a surprise as last [...]

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CJ Releases Haeundae in China, Launches Internet Leak Probe

An illegal copy of the blockbuster Korean movie “Haeundae” was briefly leaked across local peer-to-peer Internet sites on Saturday, said its distributor CJ Entertainment yesterday. The company plans to request a police investigation this week.
Over the weekend Internet media reported that the nation’s leading film distributor had already contacted the police but the company’s spokesman [...]

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Online Bootleg of Haeundae Angers Korean Film Industry

The Korean film industry is seething after a copy of the blockbuster “Haeundae” was found being illegally distributed over the internet last weekend, especially since the film had galvanized the industry by becoming the fifth Korean film ever to draw over 10 million viewers. Public calls for strong legal action against piracy are gaining support, [...]

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