The Korean Film Archive, the government-funded agency for collecting, restoring and archiving Korean films, remastered The Ginkgo Bed in 4K and held a public screening in August 2026. After the screening,...

A lesser-known film by Kim Ki-young, The Sea Knows (1961) depicts the trials and tribulations of a young Korean student conscripted into the Japanese army. The film stands apart from the ground on which...

Long before BTS topped the global charts with “Arirang,” a silent film bearing the same name shook the foundations of Korean culture—and then vanished from the face of the earth. This year marks the centenary...

The Film at Lincoln Center (FLC) and Subway Cinema are currently presenting the retrospective “Korean Cinema’s Celluloid Fever: The 1970s” from May 15 through May 26, 2026. The program revisits a peculiar...