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The 5 companies representing Korea’s sound mixing industry
SORCERERS OF SOUND BREATHING LIFE INTO FILMS A pioneer of Movie Sound in Korea Bluecap Soundworks By HAN Sunhee Bluecap Soundworks is located on Postproduction Bldg. in KOFIC NamYangju Studios. As...
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Pusan’s Asian Film Market 2010
A Place to Discover Asian Films and Filmmakers, Network and Do Business by the Sea By Jean NOH Established in 2005, the Asian Film Market opens during the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) each...
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NAVIGATING THE SEA OF FILMS, HOSTING A SAIL OF EXPLORATION AND COMMUNICATION The 15th PIFF (Pusan International Film Festival) is taking place from Oct. 7th to 15th. PIFF, which has emerged as the...
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BAE Chang-ho, an earnest Cine-artist devoted to expanding the boundaries
Passing through the most dramatic shifts in Korean film history, BAE Changho has been a hit film director and writer, moving from popular mainstream to independent genres, slowly transforming during...
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A Certain Tendency in Korean Thrillers of Summer 2010
Staring at the Pathos and Deprav ity of Life By JANG Byung-won ‘Cultural discount’ is a concept used as an index for calculating the possibility of cultural exchange between regions. It is believed...
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Four Films made a debut at the KAFA SHOWCASE
Meeting New Cine-artists: the Next generation of Korean Cinema By HUH Nam-woong Since 1984, the Korean Academy of Film Art (KAFA) has been a leading film school in Korea which raised many filmmakers....
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KO-PRODUCTION 2010 Review
Korean Cinema Globalization at Full Throttle Going beyond simply exporting domestic films, more and more of Korean cinema is recently moving onto foreign markets localizing itself while trying out...
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The Yellow Sea of NA HONG-JIN
Easily the most highly anticipated film of the latter half of this year, NA Hong-jin’s second feature The Yellow Sea reunites the director with his two stars, HA Jung-woo and KIM Yoon-suk. By Jean...
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CHUNG Chang-wha, Godfather of Asian Action Movie
Upon receiving the lifetime achievement award at the Venice Film Festival, John WOO mentioned CHUNG Chang-wha and Cheh CHANG as his mentors. In Kill Bill Vol. 1 and 2, Quentin TARANTINO paid homage to...
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The Warrior’s Way: a first sweet kiss of Asia with Hollywood
The Warrior’s Way is the first co-production movie between Korea and Hollywood, given that the two countries were involved closely with the entire process of filmmaking, from development, casting,...
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Success story behind Thailand’s Hello Stranger, a movie filmed in Korea
Shot in Korea, Thailand’s <Hello Stranger> caused quite a stir last summer, raking in box office income of 5.5 billion Won (US$4.7 million). It is one of the most successful cases of Korea’s...
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The Kick, a Korean-Thai Co-production Film
By JU Sung-chul “Taekwondo martial-arts films,’ a genre that was once considered to be extinct is now waiting to be introduced to the public once again. The film is The Kick , with Taekwondo and K-Pop...
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