Actor Kang Sooyoun, the eternal ‘World Star’ and the first Korean actor who won the Best Actress at an international film festival, passed away on May 7 at the age of 55. The Korean film world and fans expressed deep condolences for the sudden sad news. Director Bong Joonho, who visited the mortuary, said, "I can’t believe that she has passed away. Even the portrait looks like a prop in a movi...
One of the older film festivals in the world, Karlovy Vary International Film Festival first took place in 1946. But it wasn’t until in 1992 with PARK Kwang-su’s Berlin Report that Korean films started to become introduced at this Czechoslovakian film festival. At the 36th edition in 2001, New Korean Cinema Retrospective program invited over 15 titles and shone a light on Korea. Korean films have ...