Korean Movies: Picks and Reviews
Korean Movies coverage from Spotlight: reviews, recommendations and watch guides, with titles you can stream on Amasian TV.
Watching Yim Si-wan in Love in Disguise? The Film That Made His Character’s Silence Matter
The central idea: In The Attorney, the most frightening part of an injustice isn’t only what happens to its victims.…
Watching Kim Ji-won in Doctor X? Her Vampire Mystery Movie Is Worth Finding
Kim Ji-won is back on television as a surgeon who refuses to bow to hospital politics in Doctor X: Mafia…
Only Know Lee Jung Jae as Gi Hun? Four Films to Watch Next
From the endearingly flawed lead of Squid Game to an inscrutable undercover cop and a relentless pursuer, these four editor’s…
Ha Jung-woo: The Korean Actor Who Keeps Reinventing Himself
Ha Jung-woo has spent much of his career playing characters who look completely different on paper. A serial killer, a…
Before Mission: Cross 2, Watch Hwang Jung-min in Deliver Us from Evil
Hwang Jung-min is returning to action-comedy this October with Mission: Cross 2, but his next role isn’t the only reason…
Park Jeong-min: The Korean Actor Making Every Role His Own
Park Jeong-min has a habit of making supporting characters difficult to forget. Whether he is playing a streetwise fixer, a…
From Occult Mysteries to Zombie Outbreaks: 4 Korean Thrillers to Watch
Korean thrillers have a habit of making familiar genres feel unpredictable. A ghost story can become a supernatural adventure, a…
Ransomed: The Korean Action Thriller Inspired by a Real 1986 Kidnapping
Some Korean action movies are built around elaborate fictional conspiracies. Ransomed starts with something much closer to history: the 1986…
What Makes The Moon One of Korea’s Most Ambitious Sci-Fi Films
What happens when a country’s second attempt to send astronauts to the Moon goes wrong? That is the setup for…
Swing Kids Turns a Korean War POW Camp Into an Unlikely Dance Floor
Set in 1951, during the Korean War, Swing Kids follows Ro Ki-soo (Doh Kyung-soo), a North Korean prisoner at the…