Films/ Media

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    New York Korean Film Festival @ BAMcinematek

    Friday, February 22, 2013 | 7:00 AM
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    The Korea Society presents the 11th New York Korean Film Festival (NYKFF) in its second year at BAM Rose Cinema & Cinematek. In cooperation with BAMcinématek, The New York Korean Film Festival (NYKFF) is the foremost North American festival dedicated to showcasing the most commercially successful mainstream Korean films of the year.   By Subway 2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q to Atlantic Ave or D, M, N, R to Pacific Street. Tickets: $12 at the box office. Friday 22 - Sunday 24, February, 2013BAM Rose Cinema30... Read More

  • Members’ Free Film Night: The Classic

    Wednesday, February 13, 2013 | 6:30 PM
      The Classic, as delicate as it is unabashedly romantic, is a sentimental and refreshingly sincere valentine to the traditional Korean melodramas of old (famously satirized in director Kwak Jae-yong’s previous film, My Sassy Girl). It was a 2003 box-office blockbuster in Korea and all over Asia. Kwak has also made a film that, on a deeper level, poignantly illustrates the aspirations of parents for their children, as well as South Korea's development over two generations. Beginning with a discovery of a secret... Read More

  • Sleepless Night @ MoMI

    Sunday, January 13, 2013 | 5:00 PM
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    FIRST LOOK hosted by MoMI (Museum of Moving Image) selects the most inventive, groundbreaking, new international cinema from all over the world from newcomers. The Korea Society proudly co-presents Sleepless Night as part of FIRST LOOK. Sleepless Night swept both the Grand Prize and Audiences Award at the Jeonju International Film Festival 2012, and made the director Jang Kun-jae one of the most spotlighted emerging filmmakers in Korea. In it, a young married couple faces the decision to start a family and... Read More
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    Barbie

    Sunday, December 16, 2012 | 5:00 PM
    • About the Speaker Title: Barbie
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    • Event Name: Film free with museum admission at The Museum of the Moving Image.
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    Soon-young lives with her mentally handicapped father, unscrupulous uncle, and Soon-Ja, her younger sister. When an uncle arranges Soon-young’s adoption to American family for money, the younger sister, who adores her Barbie doll and dreams of one day living in America, decides not to let the adoption happen. ‘Korean Cinema Now’ will be presented at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image, home to New York City’s finest, state-of-the-art screen. Films are free with museum admission. This tribute is made... Read More
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    Choked

    Sunday, November 18, 2012 | 5:00 PM
    • About the Speaker Title: Ka-shi (Choked)
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    Youn-ho, who is about to be engaged to a longtime girlfriend, discovers that his mother has run away. Soon a loan shark comes calling. Now he must find his mother in order to survive. ‘Korean Cinema Now’ will be presented at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image, home to New York City’s finest, state-of-the-art screen. Films are free with museum admission. This tribute is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.... Read More
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    Wan-deuk-i (Punch)

    Sunday, October 28, 2012 | 5:00 PM
    • About the Speaker Title: Wan-deuk-i (Punch)
    • About the Speaker: 2012-10-28 17:00:00
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    Seventeen-year-old Wan-deuk has every reason to be a rebellious and troubled student. Though he has a disabled father, a runaway mother, and comes from a desperately poor family, he never loses a fight. Wan-Deuk meets teacher Dong-Joo, who inspires him take up kickboxing. ‘Korean Cinema Now’ will be presented at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image, home to New York City’s finest, state-of-the-art screen. Films are free with museum admission. This tribute is made possible by the New York State Council... Read More

  • Members’ Free Film Night: Epitaph

    Thursday, October 25, 2012 | 6:30 PM
    If you haven’t seen K-Horror, then you don’t know what scary is! To set the mood for Halloween, we will be screening Epitaph, a Korean horror film famous for its intricate plot and visually stunning cinematography. The film begins in 1979, as an old doctor reminisces about his days as a medical student at the famous Ahn Seng Hospital in Seoul during the Japanese occupation of Korea. Through flashbacks, three frightening stories unfold. Full of twists, scary images, and jarring sound effects, “Epitaph” is a... Read More
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    Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today @ MoMA 2012

    Sunday, September 30, 2012 | 7:00 PM
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    Yeonghwa is the Korean word for film, and since South Korean cinema now features prominently in every major international film festival, it is a good word for cineastes to know. Korean film tends to blend technical excellence with idiosyncratic expression and an entrepreneurial spirit—filmmakers often write and direct their work, and both actors and filmmakers benefit from the country’s homegrown “star system”—while embracing a wide variety of styles and subjects. Korean cinema is generally made for a national... Read More

  • Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring

    Wednesday, August 22, 2012 | 7:00 PM
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      The Korea Society and the Museum of The Moving Image co-present Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring—a gorgeously shot feature film that has grossed more in box office receipts than any Korean movie released in United States to date. Directed by phenom Kim Ki-duk, the film is a pastoral poem about the changing seasons and a meditation on the cycle of life. In a tranquil and timeless setting of a temple floating on a lake in a forest, surrounded by mountain spires that cut the monastery off from worldly... Read More

  • Choi Min-Shik Tribute: Old Boy @ Museum of the Moving Image

    Sunday, July 1, 2012 | 4:00 PM
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    The Korea Society presents a retrospective of the work of Choi Min-shik, one of Korea’s most recognizable contemporary actors, as part of our ongoing “Korean Cinema Now” program with MoMI (the Museum of Moving Image).Choi Min-shik had numerous television roles, but his big break came in 1999 when he played a cold-blooded North Korean soldier in Swiri (Dir. Kang Je-gyu) and suddenly gained a reputation as one of Korea’s finest actors. His acting dominates the silver screen, but his characters have... Read More

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