best south korean movies

Korean cinema made a name for itself among cinephiles at the turn of the 21st century for original genre film, and in particular with slick, ultraviolet action films, mostly with a focus on the revenge theme. Park Chan-Wook’s Revenge Triology being the ur-text. Seeing as guns are not as readily available in Korea the characters […]

The last five years have been an interesting time for South Korean filmmakers. A slew of debut filmmakers found themselves not only making successful first and sophomore films, but a few actually annihilating the box-office numbers that Bong Joon-ho’s The Host had set almost ten years ago. Speaking of, he along with two of the […]