Welcome! First launched by Darcy Paquet in 1999, this site has grown with the help of many volunteers to provide a comprehensive introduction to Korean cinema.

Now Screening in Korea:

Possible Love
dir. Lee Chang-dong

Celebrated auteur Lee Chang-dong returns with his first feature film since Burning in 2018. Possible Love centers on a laid off worker and his wife, and the documentary filmmaker who decides to focus on their story. The film premiered in Venice and opened theatrically in Korea on September 23, ahead of its planned worldwide release on Netflix on November 6.

Upcoming Film Festivals

31st Busan International Film Festival (BIFF)
(Oct 6-15)

28th Bucheon International Animation Film Festival (BIAF)
(Oct 23-27)

52nd Seoul Independent Film Festival
(Nov 25-Dec 4)

Subtitled Screenings in Korea

Screenings with English Subtitles
(maintained by KOFIC)

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Kyu Hyun · Tom

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Special Pages

    We have a list of the best-known Film Festivals in Korea, with links to festival websites, as well as the full collection of Festival Reports written by our contributors in past years.


    If you're searching for Books About Korean Cinema, this page will provide information, summaries and tables of contents for all the major book releases.


    Over the years we've done a number of Interviews with Korean directors, actors and other industry figures.


    For more than two decades, Darcy has been contributing Annual Reports on Korean Cinema to the catalogue of the Far East Film Festival in Udine, Italy. They are reprinted here, with permission.


    Since the site's launch in 1999, we have started a large number of specialized pages on various topics, but we were not able to maintain all of them. For those who are interested, these can be browsed at the Inactive Pages section.

Highlighted Essays

A book review of Representations of Japan
in South Korean Cinema of the Park Geun-hye Era
by Adam Hartzell

Park Chul-soo: South Korea's Neglected Auteur
by Adam Hartzell

Japanese Films in Korea
by Darcy Paquet

Taking in a Few South Korean Baseball Films
by Adam Hartzell

A Short History of Korean Film
by Darcy Paquet

A History of Korean Animation
by Tom Giammarco

Best Films of the 21st Century's First Decade
by various contributors

Click for the Complete List of Essays
at Koreanfilm.org