WithNicholas Bonner, Producer of Crossing the Line In the 1960s, four U.S. soldiers serving in the Korean Demilitarized Zone crossed the most heavily fortified border on earth and defected to Communist North Korea. Trapped in the most secretive country on earth, their life was hidden from the outside world for 40 years. Not even the U.S. […]
Screening And A ConversationWith Filmmaker Y. David Chung And Prof. John Kuo Wei Tchen “Koryo Saram” (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells the harrowing saga of survival in the open steppe country and the sweep of Soviet history through the eyes of these deported Koreans, who were designated by Stalin as an […]
WithChristine Choy, Film DirectorJung-Bong Choi, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYUJina Kim, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Smith College The Korean film industry, which once struggled to attract domestic audiences, has been successfully exporting its products and expanding its influence throughout Asia, Europe and North America in the […]
A Discussion with Ahn Sung-ki moderated by Hyangsoon Yi, University of Georgia. Wednesday, August 27, 6:30PM 6:00 PM-7:00 PM ♦ Registration and Reception 7:00 PM-8:30 PM ♦ Discussion and Q&A The Korea Society 950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City (Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street) […]
Join us for an exciting week of film, shorts, panels and parties at the largest celebration of Korean cinema in the United States. The New York Korean Film Festival showcases dynamic and exciting currents in contemporary Korean cinema and this year looks back on the career of award-winning actor Ahn Sung-ki with a special retrospective. You […]
South Korean films continue to set box-office records across Asia and win laurels in international film festivals. Meanwhile, little attention is given to the cinema from the other half of the peninsula. From May 12 to 14, 2008, three films from the DPRK’s canon will be screened as a special presentation in the Classic […]
With Director Lee Chang-Dong and Actress Moon So-ri. Wednesday, May 5, 2008 | 7:00 PM Asia Society725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)New York, NY 10021 Admission:$10 Members / $12 Non-members OASIS (133 min) 2002오아시스 Lead actress Moon So-ri will join director Lee for audience Q&A after the screening. Jong-du Hong (Sol Kyung-gu) is just […]
When Bruce Lee died, he left behind 12 minutes of footage from his final film. The upcoming movie Finishing the Game imagines what would have happened if bumbling studio executives had tried to find a passable stand-in for Lee to finish the film. The answer is hilarity. Starring Roger Fan (Better Luck Tomorrow), Sung Kang (The […]
Recent years have seen a wave of Korean pop culture—known as hallyu—sweep across Asia as consumers from Thailand to Japan became ardent fans of Korean TV dramas, movies and music acts. No pop culture phenomenon lasts forever, however, and recently released statistics suggest that exports from Korea’s entertainment industry are now declining. Is the Korean […]
Hollywood makes lots of legal thrillers, but none of them speak so directly to the Korean American experience as the newly released West 32nd. While in New York for the film’s premiere at the Tribeca Flim Festival, co-writer and director Michael Kang and stars Grace Park and Jun Sung Kim came to The Korea Society for a freewheeling panel discussion on how […]
