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  • Over the coming months the site will be reviewing several books on Korean cinema. We already have reviews of the excellent New Korean Cinema: Breaking The Waves (Darcy Paquet / 2009) and one of the books in the Korean Film Directors series Ryoo Seung Wan (Kim Yeong-jin / 2008). Using...

    Reading Korean Cinema – Books, Books and Books..

    Posted on March 10, 2011 | 4 Comments
    Over the coming months the site will be reviewing several books on Korean cinema. We already have reviews of the excellent New Korean Cinema: Breaking The Waves (Darcy Paquet / 2009) and one of the books in the Korean Film Directors series Ryoo Seung Wan (Kim Yeong-jin / 2008). Using...

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  • I’ve tried for a long time to write a top ten Korean film film list. At the end of each year it seems like everyone has managed to compile a list of their favourite films, and I’ve tried to join in on numerous occasions but it’s incredibly hard to pick...

    Vampires, Wrestlers, Murderers and Princesses: A Personal Top Ten

    Posted on March 7, 2011 | 10 Comments
    I’ve tried for a long time to write a top ten Korean film film list. At the end of each year it seems like everyone has managed to compile a list of their favourite films, and I’ve tried to join in on numerous occasions but it’s incredibly hard to pick...

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  • Well that’s a fairly self explanatory title – today is Friday the 13th so that’s as good an excuse as I need to list ten Korean horror films with some brief reasoning why they’re worth a look. They’re not even necessarily the best ten Korean horror films you can see,...

    It’s Friday the 13th – Ten Horror films for the hell of it…

    Posted on August 13, 2010 | 2 Comments
    Well that’s a fairly self explanatory title – today is Friday the 13th so that’s as good an excuse as I need to list ten Korean horror films with some brief reasoning why they’re worth a look. They’re not even necessarily the best ten Korean horror films you can see,...

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  • I think it’s safe to say that one of the problems that newcomers to Korean cinema face is dealing with Korean names. For most of us average westerners, Korean names at first appear very complicated – difficult to read, difficult to say and difficult to spell. Different spellings of the...

    Article: ‘That’s not my name…’ – From Korean to English

    Posted on December 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
    I think it’s safe to say that one of the problems that newcomers to Korean cinema face is dealing with Korean names. For most of us average westerners, Korean names at first appear very complicated – difficult to read, difficult to say and difficult to spell. Different spellings of the...

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