Park Jung-bum (박정범)

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  April, a month of film festivals
  2012/04/18, Source,
  April is packed with annual film events showcasing a wide array of independent, feature, documentary, and short films. Two of the culture ministry-sponsored festivals, the International Women's Film Festival in Seoul and Jeonju International Film Festival make their awaited return again this year, allowing movie buffs to explore the latest film trends and global trends at a glance,...More

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  Movie of the week "The Journals of Musan"
  2012/03/08, Source,
  Movie of the week "The Journals of Musan" (2010) Directed by Park Jung-bum With Park Jung-bum, Jin Yong-wook, Kang Eun-jin, Park Young-Duk, Kwon Kwi-deok, Kim Min-ho,... Synopsis Jeon Seung-chul defected from North to South Korea to find a better life. Although he does all types of menial jobs such as taping up posters on the street, he is armed with a can-do spirit. But he often finds himself being beaten or bullied by his neighbors because of his status as a North Korean defector. Life is even more difficult because the first three numbers of his citizen identification number, "125", mark him as a defector, often drawing a sharp line between him and his fellow Koreans,...More

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  Documentary 'Planet of Snail' invited to Tribeca Film Festival
  2012/03/08, Source,
  The Korean documentary "Planet of Snail" was invited to the 11th Tribeca Film Festival set to open in New York next month, the film's local distributor said Thursday. The movie by director Yi Seung-Jun will compete with 11 other entries from nine countries for a prize in the World Documentary Feature Competition section of the festival, Zoa Films said,...More

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  KoreanFilm.org's Top Korean films of 2011 by Darcy Paquet
  2012/01/14, Source,
  Each year I assemble my top 10 list out of the Korean films that have been released in theaters over the previous 12 months. The small independent films that I catch at the Busan or Jeonju film festivals may not be released by December, but they generally do get a small commercial release within a year or two, so I can include them in a later list.This year, however, I came across a great film that may end up not getting a commercial release, so I squeezed it in where #10 would normally go. I was racking my brain over that #10 slot anyway,...More