Tag: Media & Performing Arts

THE KOREAN HORROR PICTURE SHOW @ MoMI

This Halloween, we’re exploring the dark corners of Korean cinema with a selection of six genre-bending titles that will transport you to the world of

Euny Hong: The Birth of Korean Cool

Author Euny Hong discusses, with The Wall Street Journal Online’s columnist Jeffrey Yang, her  first nonfiction book, The Birth of Korean Cool, which mixes stories

The Essence of Ad Making

Director Kyuhwan Kim, the mind behind South Korea’s most iconic television advertisements, explains his creative process when crafting memorable messages for companies like Samsung, Hyundai,

ROUGH PLAY

  North American Premiere Rough. Raw. Real. The Kim Ki-duk school of filmmaking has given us several great projects produced and written by Kim and

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MOEBIUS

New York Premiere A playfully twisted black comedy with no dialogue, Moebius is an everyday tale of penectomy, rape, sadomasochistic sex, and incestuous love. It

Han Gong-ju

  New York Premiere Praised by Martin Scorsese, who presented it with the Golden Star for Best Film at the Marrakech International Film Festival last

Korean Film Today

Laurence Kardish, senior curator emeritus for film of the Museum of Modern Art, addresses the Asian studies and cinema studies programs on the legacy of

9 Muses of Star Empire

Filmmaker Hark-Joon Lee chronicles the making of an all girl band in this insightful documentary on K-Pop—the multi-billion dollar South Korean musical entertainment industry. 9

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Director’s Talk with Hark-Joon Lee

Director Hark-Joon Lee, long-time reporter turned filmmaker, discusses his amazing, and in some cases life-threatening, experiences making documentaries on two wildly different subjects: North Korean

KOREAN CINEMA TODAY

A Conversation With Nicolas Archambault, Director of Asian Programming, Fantasia International Film Festival, and Tom Vick, Curator of Film Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution.

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