May 18 – surprise hit of the LKFF
A modern historical drama about Korea’s Tiananmen Square incident might not sound like the most gripping of scenarios for a film, but May 18 certainly draws you in as a cinematic experience. One member...
View ArticleKorea at War: A Retrospective of Chung Ji-Young’s Films
Details of a mini Korean film festival in Cambridge. Well worth going to. Friday 23 April & Saturday 24 April, 2010 Robinson College, Cambridge Korea at War: A Retrospective of Chung Ji-Young’s...
View ArticleWhite Badge: Korea and the Vietnamese War
In a year that we remember the 60th anniversary of the first post-WW2 US military involvement in Asia, it was a great idea to invite Director Jeong Ji-yeong (정지영) to the UK. Jeong is known for a...
View ArticleIm Kwon-Taek’s Village in the Mist — affairs on an Anonymous Island
Jeong Yoon-hee as the new schoolteacher Han Su-ok. Tempting? Tempted? Han Su-ok, a young schoolteacher, arrives in an isolated mountain village to take up her first job in an elementary school. As she...
View ArticleFestival Film Review: Hwajang / Revivre
Ahn Sung-ki talks about making Hwajang following its screening as the closing gala of the London Korean Film Festival on 15 November 2014 Well, I was right. Ahn Sung-ki confessed in the Q+A which...
View ArticleLKFF 2014: the conversations
The London Korean Film Festival is not just about getting acquainted with the latest in Korean movies. It is also an opportunity to meet some of the people behind those movies – actors, directors and...
View ArticleThe London Korean Links Awards 2014
Our regular unscientific seasonal post which recognises some of the people, books, films and events which made 2014 an outstanding year. Personality of the Year This year there seem to have been more...
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