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Mindset: Kim Ki-young’s Choice
The Busan International Film Festival held a retrospective of Kim Ki-young in 1997, screening films he...
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Mindset: Inside Yerin
Season four of Bridgerton opens with an intense spotlight on Yerin Ha, who plays one of its central leads....
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Mindset: Where Hozin Goes
The statement that popping has been domesticated in Korea, having lost its subcultural origin, may not...
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The Ugly Review: Yeon Sang-ho on the Violence of Seeing
The new film by Yeon Sang-ho, best known for Train to Busan (2016), broke multiple records while raising...
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Can This Love Be Translated? Review
Korean romantic comedy dramas have their own enemies: dramatic clichés, also known as K-drama rules,...
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The Great Flood Review: The Return of Archaic Motherhood
The title evokes the promise of a disaster film, one in which catastrophes—natural or man-made—strike...
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Horse Talk: When Intimacy Turns into Sacrifice
A close cultural association between the horse and women encounters an interesting fork in the road with...
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Horse-Year Bride: Sex, Superstition and the Low Birth Rate
Korea currently records one of the lowest birth rates globally, a demographic condition accompanied by...
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The Year of the Horse Has Arrived
As the Year of the Snake gives way to the Year of the Horse, a symbolic shift unfolds—one that invites...
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