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I didn’t watch The Recruit when it first came out because it was never on my radar. I’m not technically the target audience because I’m not a fan of action or comedy, and the combination often gives me the ick. However, the first season left me quite surprised. It is hard to admit, but I’m on board for this silliness because the pacing and good storytelling somehow make it work. The Recruit season 2 takes off straight after Max’s murder by her daughter Nichka. But here’s where it subverts expectations by taking us on something of an odyssey thanks to a new case, new graymail all the way from Seoul. This graymail somehow turns up at Owen’s desk, which means he has to open it and follow through. This season takes our guys to Seoul, where a man eager to save his wife has...

Martine Thérouanne, director of the Vesoul Iff of Asian Cinemas and president of the Jiseok jury at the 28th Busan International Film Festival, Asia’s Cannes, presented two “Asia Star Awards” to two great actors, one Korean, Yoo Teo, the other Japanese, Iura Arata at the “Asia Star Awards” evening organized by Marie-Claire Chanel, on Thursday October 5.

The film “Past Lives” by American-Korean director Céline Song, starring Yoo Teo in the male lead role, will be released in France on December 13, 2023.

Steven Yeun has bucked stereotypes and carved a new niche as sexy Asian leading man with his roles in “Burning” and “Beef.” Justin Chon transitioned from a supporting role in “Twilight” to directing “Gook,” “Jamojaya” and half of Apple TV+’s “Pachinko.” And Busan-born Daniel Dae Kim has expanded from “Lost” and “Hawaii” to becoming one of Hollywood’s leading producers.

The stateside successes of Korean-born and Korean American talent are growing and are worth celebrating. But the Busan International Film Festival’s planned party is being dialed down a notch under the impact of the twin writers’ and SAG Actors strikes in the U.S.

Busan’s ‘Special Program in Focus: Korean Diasporic Cinema’ will go ahead with a screening schedule including six films, public talk sessions that include Oscar-winning actor Youn Yuh-jung, Lee Isaac Chung, director of Oscar-winning film “Minari,” and John Cho, the Seoul-born “Star Trek” and “Searching” star.

Love to Hate You is a series directed by Kim Jung-kwon starring Kim Ok-bin and Yoo Teo.

Love To Hate You is a comedy that takes on romantic comedies to end up being a romantic comedy… but it does so gracefully and knows how to laugh at clichés and gender stereotypes.

Deep down, this is the usual, but done in a good way and with two lead actors that are close and clumsy it is impossible to not love.

It is not at all a Hollywood comedy, this series knows how to laugh at that and re-interpret in Korean style a genre we believed had little left to offer. If you thought Valentine´s day was for eating ice-cream and feel remorse for lost chances… Love To Hate You offers us the perfect excuse if not to believe in love, but to enjoy ten really funny episodes that will carry...