Presented with the Korea Society Friday, November 28, 2008 | 9:30 PM Rubin Museum of Art150 West 17th StreetNew York, NY 10011 THE BOW (90 min) 2005활 Dir. Kim Ki-duk. Starring Jeon Sung-Hwan, Han Yeo-Reum, Seo Ji-Seok. With a bow and arrow, a sixty-year old man protects the young girl he plans to marry when she turns seventeen. She’s content with their life on a fishing boat until a young… Read More

The blockbuster TV Drama from KoreaMonthly Screening Series In an age when women were treated as if they were invisible, Hwang Jin Yi, the celebrated Korean courtesan-singer-poet of the 16th century, was larger than life. Her beauty, wit and intellect propelled her from obscurity into the company of Korea’s most powerful aristocrats. The defining romance of her life broke across Korea’s rigid class lines and was in turn shattered by… Read More

  WithNicholas Bonner, Producer of Crossing the Line In the 1960s, four U.S. soldiers serving in the Korean Demilitarized Zone crossed the most heavily fortified border on earth and defected to Communist North Korea. Trapped in the most secretive country on earth, their life was hidden from the outside world for 40 years. Not even the U.S. government knew their fate. James Joseph Dresnok, one of these four American defectors, is the… Read More

Screening And A ConversationWith Filmmaker Y. David Chung And Prof. John Kuo Wei Tchen "Koryo Saram" (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells the harrowing saga of survival in the open steppe country and the sweep of Soviet history through the eyes of these deported Koreans, who were designated by Stalin as an "unreliable people" and enemies of the state. Through recently uncovered archival footage and new interviews, the… Read More

  WithChristine Choy, Film DirectorJung-Bong Choi, Assistant Professor of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, NYUJina Kim, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Smith College  The Korean film industry, which once struggled to attract domestic audiences, has been successfully exporting its products and expanding its influence throughout Asia, Europe and North America in the past decade. These days, casual observers associate Korean cinema with the broader cultural phenomenon of hallyu ("Korean… Read More

A Korean Actor on the World Stage: Ahn Sung-ki A Discussion   with Ahn Sung-ki   moderated by Hyangsoon Yi, University of Georgia.   Wednesday, August 27, 6:30PM 6:00 PM-7:00 PM ♦ Registration and Reception 7:00 PM-8:30 PM ♦ Discussion and Q&A The Korea Society 950 Third Avenue, Eighth Floor, New York City (Building entrance on SW corner of Third Avenue and 57th Street) Ahn Sung-ki, the “people’s actor” of… Read More

  Join us for an exciting week of film, shorts, panels and parties at the largest celebration of Korean cinema in the United States. The New York Korean Film Festival showcases dynamic and exciting currents in contemporary Korean cinema and this year looks back on the career of award-winning actor Ahn Sung-ki with a special retrospective. You are invited to come kick off this year's Festival at a star-studded reception and screening… Read More

  South Korean films continue to set box-office records across Asia and win laurels in international film festivals. Meanwhile, little attention is given to the cinema from the other half of the peninsula. From May 12 to 14, 2008, three films from the DPRK’s canon will be screened as a special presentation in the Classic Movie Night series. The films—Hong Gil Dong, Bellflower, and My Look in the Distant Future—have been rarely… Read More

  With Director Lee Chang-Dong and Actress Moon So-ri.      Wednesday, May 5, 2008 | 7:00 PM Asia Society725 Park Avenue (at 70th Street)New York, NY 10021 Admission:$10 Members / $12 Non-members   OASIS (133 min) 2002오아시스 Lead actress Moon So-ri will join director Lee for audience Q&A after the screening. Jong-du Hong (Sol Kyung-gu) is just out of prison for manslaughter and decides to call on the family of the victim.… Read More

  When Bruce Lee died, he left behind 12 minutes of footage from his final film. The upcoming movie Finishing the Game imagines what would have happened if bumbling studio executives had tried to find a passable stand-in for Lee to finish the film. The answer is hilarity.  Starring Roger Fan (Better Luck Tomorrow), Sung Kang (The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift), Monique Curren (Maria Full of Grace) and MC Hammer, Finishing the… Read More