By Pierce Conran After helming a low-key music drama ( The Beat Goes On ) and a romantic comedy ( Whatcha Wearin'? ), director Byun...

Following the biggest ever year for Korean cinema, it is perhaps fitting that the very last work to be released in 2012 was a spectacle-...

Sol Kyung-gu has been one of Korea’s most bankable stars since Kang Woo-suk’s Public Enemy trilogy hijacked the box office in 2002 and I ha...

Sol Kyung-gu was the first Korean actor whose name I remembered and after his extraordinary turn in Peppermint Candy (1999) I was convinced...

A fair amount has been written about this film and very little of it is positive. At its core, Haeundae is a mawkish melodrama that serves ...