There’s a film I recently pulled back out after a long time: The Beauty Inside (뷰티 인사이드), released in 2015. The first time I watched it, I remembered it as just a romance with a quirky gimmick. Watching it again years later, I realized it was asking something far more fundamental: what exactly do we […]
Over this year’s Lunar New Year holiday, Korean theaters were talking about one film. The Man Who Lived With the King (왕과 사는 남자) crossed ten million admissions and became the 34th film in Korean cinema history to hit that mark. What surprised me, watching it, is that this isn’t a flashy action film or
The Movie That Came Back to Me While Watching Kim Bu-jang I’ve been watching the drama Kim Bu-jang lately, and somewhere in the middle of it, watching Sojiseob on screen, an old movie suddenly came back to me: Only You, a melodrama starring Sojiseob and Han Hyojoo. It’s been a while since I last thought