Tag: jungahyum

Four years after his strong debut Hide and Seek, director Huh Jung returns to a mid-August release date with his follow-up The Mimic. With better-than-average casting, this chilling and polished countryside take on a local urban legend may be the...

From Kim Ki-young's The Housemaid in 1961 all the way to Park Chan-wook's The Handmaiden last year, Korean cinema has delighted in torrid tales of disruptive house servants. Whether as a way to contrast social classes or explore illicit sexuality,...

Woochi The Demon Slayer.  Woochi The Taoist Wizard.  Jeon Woochi.  Of all the titles I've seen used for this South Korean fantasy/superhero film, Woochi The Goofball Asskicker with a Ridiculously Complicated Backstory was an opportunity missed.This is the story of...

Woochi is an arrogant young hothead who might one day become the world's greatest wizard if he wasn't such a douche bag. More interested in fame than perfecting his talents, he has successfully upset not only his own master but...

OK... I know you're heading straight for that play button, but if you want to avoid being scarred for life by listless teenybopper crap surrounding those fine visuals, I advise you turn off your speakers. Or put copious amounts of...

What would you rather choose?1) Playing a hero of the people, sacrificing your life to bring justice amidst the rampant corruption of the mid Joseon era, and meeting a glorious demise at the hand of some spurious forces of evil....

And it looks... fun? Now whether it will be the purely visceral kind, or something with some cinematic meat to boot, that's still too early to tell. But knowing Choi Dong-Hoon, the mastermind behind 범죄의 재구성 (The Big Swindle) and...

And you can officially color me unimpressed. Not that posters matter that much in the grand scheme of things (at least from a film geek standpoint - they certainly do matter for marketing folks and the recipient of their bait...

Even for an industry which has seemingly put an inordinate amount of power in the hands of debut directors (and of course I'm talking 1996 onwards), Chungmuro can be rather cruel with its young prodigies. A full six years after...

Korean history buffs might have encountered the name Jeon Woo-Chi at least once. During King Jungjong's reign (early to mid 16th Century), Jeon worked as a bottom-feeder official in one of Hanyang's administrative offices, after which he retired from his...