Exhuma: Korean shamanism and colonial past explored in supernatural horror thriller
Jang Jaehyun, “Exhuma” (2024) It starts innocently enough when a newborn boy contracts a mystery
Reviews of Korean-language films I find significant or interesting.
Jang Jaehyun, “Exhuma” (2024) It starts innocently enough when a newborn boy contracts a mystery
Kim Ki-young, “Hanyo / The Housemaid” (1960) Delirious and overwrought in its soap-opera melodrama, this
Hirokazu Kore-eda, “Broker” (2022) A young woman brings her baby to a church’s baby box
Noh Doyeon, “Human Form” (2014) A deeply unsettling short film about a teenage schoolgirl’s quest
Korean Films | North American Films
“The Dark Side of South Korea’s Incredible Economic Success” (Explained with Dom, 1 June 2022)
Chinese and Chinese-language Films | Korean Films
“How the Rich Ate South Korea” (Asianometry, March 2022) One paradox regarding South Korea’s economic
Korean Films | North American Films
Carlton Meyer, “The United States Started the Korean War” (Tales of the American Empire, 11
Hyunsuk Kim, “Pinki” (2018) Initially looking like a Korean mash-up of Neil Blomkamp’s “District 9”
Korean Films | North American Films
David Yun, “Loyal Citizens of Pyongyang in South Korea” (2018) Made by then UCLA undergraduate
Australian and New Zealand Films | Chinese and Chinese-language Films
“The Secret Armada” (Foreign Correspondent, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 14 July 2020) Despite the spine-tingling thrill