By Pierce Conran With a few hours left in 2019, it’s time to look back at the decade that was for Korean cinema. The industry really ...

By Pierce Conran Eight years after his phenomenal drama Poetry , Lee Chang-dong makes a long-awaited return to the Cannes competition...

By Pierce Conran Auditions appear to have wrapped up for Lee Chang-dong's sixth film Burning as it was announced today that newcomer...

By Pierce Conran Last week we finally got the news we'd all been waiting for when it was confirmed that Lee Chang-dong would fin...

By Pierce Conran We haven't had a new Lee Chang-dong film since 2010's magnificent Poetry but we got our hopes up last year w...

By Kyu Hyun Kim In the midst of global Star Wars mania, MKC contributor Kyu Hyun Kim imagines what a Star Wars Episode VIII might lo...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran Screening in the Cannes Film Festival...

By Hieu Chau After an impressive showing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, July Jung’s film, A Girl At My Door ( Doheeya ), has b...

By Pierce Conran Screening in the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard section this year is A Girl at My Door , a film tha...

Last Friday morning I had the opportunity to sit down with Huh Jong-ho, the director of Countdown , which was screening in the main compet...

My third review of 1997’s important Korean gangster films is actually on the first one that was released (February) during the year.  L...

KOFFIA KOFFIA began last Thursday and ended last night for the Sydney portion of its run. It will start up again in Melbourne on Septembe...

A lot of new reviews this week, many because of the US DVD release of both Lee Chang-dong's Poetry and Secret Sunshine (2007), the lat...

My last post got me thinking, perhaps people haven't had the same opportunity as they've had before to see Korean films because they...