Month: February 2018

Cross-Currents: East Asian History and Culture Review is a joint project of the Research Institute of Korean Studies (RIKS) at Korea University and the Institute...

Making a debut feature is a difficult task. As a director, you have to persuade everyone that you are worthy of attention, particularly in a...

From the perspective of gender studies, discussing about an impressive female protagonist is often controversial. As an enlightened and maverick “new women” of old Shanghai,...

Despite the large interest in Korean television among academics and fans, studies of Korean television content in Anglo-speaking countries have seen limited publication. This is...

Kiyoshi Kurosawa is often pigeonholed as a horror director whose films frequently finds ghosts lurking in the darkness, but his latest feature Before We Vanish...

The 5th of February marks the 20th anniversary of filmmaker Kim Ki-young’s death. After making his directorial debut in commercial cinema with 1955’s Box of...