The central idea: In The Attorney, the most frightening part of an injustice isn’t only what happens to its victims. It’s how easily powerful people can turn their suffering into a story that the public is expected to believe. Yim Si-wan’s new drama Love in Disguise begins with a question of guilt. His character, Yoon […]
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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 in White. But if you know her mostly from Queen of Tears or Descendants of the Sun, there’s another side of her screen career worth revisiting: a Joseon-era mystery involving suspicious deaths, vampire-like bite marks, […]
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 picks reveal the many shades of Lee Jung Jae’s charisma. If Squid Game was your introduction to Lee Jung Jae, Seong Gi Hun is probably the face that comes to mind. He is awkward, frustrating, […]
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 news anchor trapped inside a television studio, a North Korean agent, a marathon coach, a desperate diplomat, and now a debt-ridden property owner pulled into a kidnapping plot have all become part of his filmography. […]
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 to have the Korean actor on your radar. If you want to see him in a much darker kind of action movie, Deliver Us from Evil is available to watch on Amasian TV. Set across […]
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 historical independence activist, or a North Korean security officer caught between competing loyalties, he tends to give his characters their own rhythms and personalities rather than simply filling a role in someone else’s story. That […]
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 zombie movie can turn a Seoul neighborhood into a survival maze, and a murder mystery can make you question whether the person investigating the crime can even trust his own memories. Amasian TV’s catalogue has […]
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 kidnapping of a South Korean diplomat in Lebanon. Directed by Kim Seong-hun, the filmmaker behind A Hard Day, Tunnel, and Netflix’s Kingdom, the 2023 film follows diplomat Lee Min-jun (Ha Jung-woo) as he takes on […]
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 The Moon, Kim Yong-hwa’s 2023 Korean sci-fi disaster film. Set in 2029, the movie follows astronaut Hwang Sun-woo (Doh Kyung-soo), who becomes stranded on the lunar surface after a solar storm causes a catastrophic problem […]
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 Geoje POW camp who becomes fascinated by tap dancing. After watching U.S. Army sergeant Jackson (Jared Grimes) dance, Ki-soo joins a new troupe being assembled inside the camp. The idea came from the original musical […]