New York Premiere A playfully twisted black comedy with no dialogue, Moebius is an everyday tale of penectomy, rape, sadomasochistic sex, and incestuous love. It continues maverick writer-director Kim Ki-duk’s journey into the madness of the Korean soul—though in a much more in-your-face way than last year’s Pietà. Marbled with references to earlier films like The Isle (genital mutilation), Bad Guy (tough, twisted love), and Pietà (“mother” love), plus numerous… Read More

  New York Premiere Praised by Martin Scorsese, who presented it with the Golden Star for Best Film at the Marrakech International Film Festival last year, the feature debut from writer-director Lee Su-jin has walked a path strewn with prizes since it premiered at the 2013 Busan International Film Festival, where it won two awards, and went on to win the Tiger Award at the Rotterdam International Film Festival. A… Read More

Laurence Kardish, senior curator emeritus for film of the Museum of Modern Art, addresses the Asian studies and cinema studies programs on the legacy of Korean film and Korean film today. This event was presented by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, The Korea Society, the Honorary Consul for Korea Susan Soonkeum Cox and co sponsored by the Jordan Schnitzser Museum of Art.   Thursday, May 1, 2014  Part… Read More

Filmmaker Hark-Joon Lee chronicles the making of an all girl band in this insightful documentary on K-Pop—the multi-billion dollar South Korean musical entertainment industry. 9 Muses of Star Empire follows the nine young women in a new girl group for a year as they are molded and trained by the powerful Star Empire Agency to be the next big K-pop sensation. As the everyday life of these girls unfolds, they… Read More

Director Hark-Joon Lee, long-time reporter turned filmmaker, discusses his amazing, and in some cases life-threatening, experiences making documentaries on two wildly different subjects: North Korean defectors trying to escape to freedom and K-Pop, Korea’s musical entertainment industry. Lee deeply embeds himself in his film projects and goes to extraordinary lengths in pursuit of stories he thinks are worth telling. From 2007 to 2011, Director Lee lived among North Korean defectors… Read More

A Conversation With Nicolas Archambault, Director of Asian Programming, Fantasia International Film Festival, and Tom Vick, Curator of Film Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution. Moderated by Samuel Jamier, Co-Director New York Asian Film Festival and Rufus de Rham, Director of Operations for Subway Cinema, organizers of the New York Asian Film Festival. Boasting record box office numbers and critical accolades from the major film festival circuit, Korean cinema has… Read More

The Korea Society teams up with The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the New York Asian Film Festival to present the New York premiere of the horror/comedy Intruders, and its director, Noh Young-seok. A twisty blackly comic suspense thriller from South Korea, where sometimes it seems like they do this sort of thing better than anyone else. Looking for peace and quiet, a screenwriter rents a winter cabin in… Read More

On February 21st, 2014, The Korea Society hosted a public screening of Daytime Drinking, Director Noh Young-seok’s breakthrough first film, at the New York Film Academy’s Battery Place Campus. After the film, the director answered questions for the audience on his career, filmmaking techniques, and plans for future projects.     Friday, February 21, 2014 | 9 AM   If you have any questions, please contact Estefanía Lee  or (212) 759-7525,… Read More

Join us for a private screening of Divided Families, a recently completed documentary about Korean Americans’ search for lost relatives in North Korea, 60 years after Korea became a divided nation. During the Korean War and its aftermath, hundreds and thousands of family members were separated in the chaos of the war, and then by the border that was drawn establishing North and South Korea. More than half a century… Read More

Written and directed by Christopher H.K. Lee. The Korea Society and the Korean American Film Festival New York (KAFFNY) co-present “Fading Away”, a documentary that showcases a series of never before told stories from a group of Korean War veterans and refugees through a series of insightful interviews and the use of rare historical film footage, photos and other archival material. “Fading Away” is unique not because of battle scenes,… Read More