13+ hour, 45+ min ago   (320+ words) Christopher Nolan's epic has drawn 10.8 million viewers, becoming the seventh most-watched foreign film in Korean history. Christopher Nolan's adventure-packed epic "The Odyssey" has dominated the Korean box office for the 40th consecutive day, drawing another 449,000 viewers over the weekend after passing…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (921+ words) “Possible Love” earned Korea its first Venice Grand Jury Prize with an unflinching portrait of layoffs, inequality and human connection. While Korean cinema's biggest international successes in recent years have come from directors reworking Hollywood genre formulas, Lee Chang-dong's "Possible…...

1+ day, 9+ hour ago   (373+ words) The acclaimed director's picture, which explores social class and human relationships through the lives of two couples, claimed the runner-up honor at the festival’s 83rd edition. Director Lee Chang-dong’s “Possible Love,” the auteur's first feature film in eight years, won the…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (485+ words) The K-pop supergroup's latest world tour drew the most reports of illegal ticket sales in Korea over the past 12 months, with concerts representing three-fourths of all complaints since January 2023. Korea's most-reported concerts for illegal ticket sales over the past year…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago   (233+ words) A new eight-member boy band from Oui Entertainment is set to debut by the end of this year, the agency announced Wednesday. It will mark the agency’s first boy band launch after WEi’s debut in 2020. The boy band, tentatively called…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (319+ words) The suspenseful drama about stolen identity drew 4.4 million views in its second week as three other Korean series also entered Netflix's weekly top 10. The Korean suspense thriller “Mousetrap” reigned atop Netflix's non-English TV series chart in its second week of…...

5+ day, 11+ hour ago   (253+ words) The K-pop group begins its new festival tour in Bogota, Colombia, before heading to Buenos Aires and Mexico City, alongside a historic Rock in Rio headlining set. K-pop boy band Stray Kids will kick off a new Latin American festival…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1113+ words) GS25’s Minumsa book-cover buns and collectible bookmarks are driving resale frenzy, pop-up queues and a surge in classic book sales among younger readers. “Empty bun wrappers for sale,” read a post on the second-hand app Karrot on Thursday. Each wrapper…...

6+ day, 5+ hour ago   (883+ words) The star of the Korean version of the hit 2015 Anne Hathaway-Robert DeNiro film talked about her character's choices while also describing her ideal partner. Han So-hee, sitting before reporters with striking platinum-white hair bleached to the roots, looks every bit…...