[HanCinema's Digest] Cinema Snippets

Christopher Weatherspoon looks at how successful Korean comedies are able to tickle funny bones around the world, Pierce Conran (Modern Korean Cinema) lists his top ten films of the year, KoBiz's latest infographic charts four of year's best horrors, and Soompi thinks these seven Korean films would make for wonderful dramas too.

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"Think Locally, Laugh Globally"

While Korea's bloody revenge films and slick action thrillers are inherently attractive to overseas buyers, the country's comedies face a different challenge. "Appealing to an international audience can be a challenge for comedic films as many rely on cultural elements that do not always translate well to foreign viewers", notes KoBiz writer Christopher Weatherspoon. South Korean culture, however, has proved prolific, which in turn has helped K-comedies find their way onto international screens. In this post on KoBiz, Weatherspoon examines examples of Korean comedies that have found that balance between 'thinking locally, and laughing globally'...

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"Top 15 Korean Films of 2017"

Korean film journalist and critic Pierce Conran looks back on the year and selects his top ten standout features. Although the year was not as spectacular as 2016, which was "one of the all-time best years of Korean cinema", over the last 12 months, writes Pierce, there were a number of important titles, and the industry itself "has never put out such an incendiary lineup of films". Click on through to Pierce's website, Modern Korean Cinema, to see what cinematic delights he selected, and be sure to share your own favourite films in the comment section below.

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"Horror Fantasy"

KoBiz's latest infographic charts the box office performance of four of this year's most "extraordinary" horror films. Surprisingly, many of the year's sleeper hits were horrors, Hwang Hee-yun notes, with several American horrors leading the charge. These include Jordan Peele's debut "Get Out"; the fourth film in the "Conjuring" series of films, "Annabelle: Creation"; an adaptation of Stephen King's "It"; and the smash hit "Happy Death Day" by Christopher B. Landon.

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"7 Korean Movies That Would Make Great Dramas"

"There is no shortage of great narratives in the world of Korean dramas, with new shows released quick enough to give us all whiplash", yet Korean drama fans are always hungry for more! In this post, Soompi turns its gaze towards seven Korean films that they think would make great dramas. What would, for example, Park Chan-wook's charming "I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK" look like serialised? Or how about the runaway hit "Train to Busan"?

...READ ON SOOMPI