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  Korean film directors to meet British audiences
  2012/02/01, Source,
  The opportunity to sit down and talk freely with a choice film director is something that most film fans -- and even critics -- can only wish for. But for fans keeping watch on the Korean film scene from England, 2012 may be the year of wishes coming true. The Korean Culture Center of the UK (KCCUK) recently kicked off its year-long program, "2012 Korean Film Nights: Year of the 12 Directors", with a special event hosted by Director Lee Myeong-se on January 26. An audience of over 100 Korean wave fans, professional film critics and bloggers, as well as the editor of the BBC, attended the screening of Director Lee's film, "Duelist", at the Apollo Piccadilly Circus Cinema in London,...More

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  CINEMA ON THE PARK Season 2 Announced!
  2012/01/22, Source,
  The Korean Cultural Office in Sydney has just announced another exciting Season of Cinema on the Park, the film night that delighted audiences in 2011 will return once again in 2012. A surprise hit with more than 1,000 people attending, Thursday nights are now etched firmly on the Sydney cinema calendar as Korean night and will see 21 feature films and 14 guest speakers in the first half of the year alone, surely enough to satisfy anyone's appetite for Korean cinema!,...More

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  Archive spotlights '60s literary films
  2011/12/19, Source,
  (Above picture: Actress Yun Jeong-hie and Shin Sung-il in a scene from Kim Soo-yong's "Night Journey") Cinephiles will have a rare chance to look at some of Korea's hallmark 1960s "literature films". The Korean Film Archive (KOFA) has released a DVD collection of masterworks by Kim Soo-yong, a leading filmmaker of the Golden Age. Kim is renowned for adapting literary works to depict various aspects of contemporary life, adding to the richness of one of the most productive, artistically experimental decades in Korean cinema history,...More

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  Wieland SPECK, head of the Berlin film festival's Panorama
  2011/12/07, Source,
  After 30 years at the Berlin International Film Festival, Wieland Speck will be celebrating his 20th year as head of the festival's Panorama section next year. While he was in Seoul on his annual film hunting trip around the region, Jean NOH met with him to talk about his thoughts on Korean cinema, the Berlinale audiences and how he programs for them. KCT: How important for you is this annual trip around Asia, after the American Film Market (AFM)? Speck: For me, the trips to Asia and South America are very important trips because there are so many amazing filmmakers and they are inspiring the Western filmmaking a lot. The European view on the world, especially the Western European view on the world, is a little bit like simmering in the same broth for many years now. And then, yes, we already have the most interesting film countries in the world [in Asia].So having our eyes out for where inspiration lurks, this is what we definitely need for our culture in general, but also for the filmmaking,...More