Joan Vos MacDonald is a New York-based writer who covers Korean media. Past Lives, directed by Celine Song, won praise at this year’s Sundance Film Festival for its evocative romantic storyline.

and South Korea's highly-regarded Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has not been immune to the current instability.

South Korean filmmaker Hur Jin-ho, known for his early romances, presented a fresh, entertaining adaptation of a celebrated Dutch crime novel at the Busan International Film Festival this week ...

Lee Yong-kwan has been reappointed as chairman of the Busan International Film Festival for a further four years. He was one of the festival’s original co-founders back in 1996 and has held the ...

Chinese actress Tang Wei, who visited Korea’s southern port city of Busan on Thursday for the Busan International Film ...

She started out as a sales agent in 1998 and worked for the Busan International Film Festival’s co-production market in 2000. She was at the Korean Film Council (KOFIC) for three years ...

If you can find time to escape the beach, there are a host of events to check the calendar before heading to the city, those include the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF), The ... leading ...

Indeed, thanks in no small part to the Busan Film Festival – which welcomes strong Gallic delegations each year – and to a keyed-in and film literate public, South Korea has emerged as a hale ...

Also starring Kwon Hae-hyo, Lee Hee-joon, Park Ji-hwan, Cho Hyun-chul and Kim Jong-soo, the film is set to hit Netflix on ...