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Song Jae-rim Passes Away In His Apartment (Photo Credit – Instagram)

Popular South Korean actor and model Song Jae-rim passed away on November 12, leaving everyone in shock. He is best known for We Got Married and has appeared in multiple prestigious magazines as a model. Scroll below for the deets.

Song began his career as a runway model and has appeared in magazines like Bazaar Korea, Vogue Girl Korea, Dazed Korea, GQ Korea, and more. He was only 39 years old. In 2009, he began his acting career, and one of his notable works is the period drama Moon Embracing the Sun. He experienced fame after playing an assassin in Two Weeks. He was also loved in We Got Married after he appeared in the show’s fourth season with Kim So-eun. He was last seen in Queen Woo.

According to media reports, Song Jae-rim was found dead in his apartment in Seoul’s Seongdong District.

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Hellbound is a South Korean dark fantasy horror thriller series directed by Yeon Sang-ho from a screenplay by Choi Gyu-seok. Based on the webtoon of the same name by Sang-ho, the Netflix series is set in a world where unearthly creatures appear and condemn people to hell. Soon after their appearance, religious groups begin forming on the ideology of divine justice. Hellbound stars Yoo Ah-in, Kim Hyun-joo, Park Jeong-min, Won Jin-ah, and Yang Ik-june. So, if you loved the dark fantasy elements, intensely thrilling story, and compelling characters in Hellbound here are some similar shows you should check out next.

Sweet Home (Netflix) Credit – Netflix

Sweet Home is a South Korean apocalyptic action horror series written by Hong So-ri, Kim Hyung-min, and Park So-jung. Based on the Naver webtoon of the same name by Kim Carnby and Hwang Young-chan,...

Stars: Seo In-Guk, Dong-Yoon Jang, Choi Gwi-hwa, Dong-il Sung, Park Ho-San, Moon-Sung Jung, Jung So-Min, Jang Young-Nam | Written and Directed by Hongsun Kim

Project Wolf Hunting begins with a mass return of Korean criminals captured in the Philippines. As they’re being led through Seoul airport somebody with a grudge against one of them detonates a suicide bomb killing himself, his target, and everyone else in the vicinity. To avoid a repeat of this, the next group is to be transported on the Frontier Titan, a specially fitted out cargo ship and delivered to a pier in Busan harbour to which the public doesn’t have access. I guess simply flying them into a military base never crossed anyone’s mind.

The Frontier Titan leaves Manilla with forty-seven criminals, twenty guards, two medics, and the ship’s crew. At least that’s what they think they’re leaving with because...

Our smartphones have become almost an extension of ourselves in today’s digital age, with people depending on their phones for so many of our daily tasks. This also means that our handsets hold a large number of our data, a lot of it highly sensitive, which in the wrong hands could prove rather harmful to us. For his debut directorial, Kim Tae-joon adapts the popular Japanese film “Stolen Identity”, itself based on a namesake novel, and brings Korean sensibilities to this real-world problem in Netflix’s newest Korean release “Unlocked”.

“Unlocked” is Streaming on Netflix

Starting off with a stylish montage of just how much we rely on our smartphone in a day, we meet Lee Na-mi who, after a heavy night of partying and drinking, forgets her phone on the bus, an incident that is about to change her life for the worse. The phone gets picked up by Oh Jun-yeong,...

Unlocked is a South Korean film directed by Kim Tae-joon based on the novel by Akira Shiga. It stars Chun Woo-hee, Yim Si-wan and Kim Hee-won.

A South Korean movie about hackers, internet identities and many social networks and… murders.

An entertaining thriller that, although isn´t much technically, is more entertaining than fascinating.

Storyline

In a drunken night a girl loses her mobile phone. A boy takes advantage of this and takes over her identity. Meanwhile, a dead woman appears in the forest.

Movie Review Unlocked

A classic thriller that uses common fears (with a real base) about the insecurity of having all one´s life tied up in a mobile phone. So far, this is basic and boring, but the unblocked identity also becomes a thriller about murders, which adds an extra touch of attraction.

The story is well planned and the relationship between the main two characters,...

Korea’s most wanted escape their handcuffs on a cargo ship back to the motherland but find they are not alone in bloody thriller

If you had a pound for every slashed jugular and staved-in cranium in this Korean horror-thriller, you would probably have more than the film’s entire budget. This seems to have been mostly spent on supplies of fake blood almost copious enough to run the sprinkler system on Frontier Titan, the 58,000-tonne cargo ship travelling between the Philippines and South Korea in Kim Hong-sun’s film.

Forget Con Air; this is Con Sea, with bruiser cop Seok-woo (Park Ho-san) in charge of escorting a dirty dozen or so fugitives back to the motherland. First among evils is Jong-doo (Seo In-guk), a rapist with boyband looks and tattoos up to his jawline, who earns an early beating from Seok-woo after threatening his daughter. It doesn’t take...

Well Go USA Entertainment will be giving the South Korean sci-fi thriller Project Wolf Hunting a digital, Blu-ray, and DVD release in the U.S. on February 14th, and with that date less two months away a trailer for the film has arrived online, with English subtitles for those of us who don’t understand Korean. You can check it out in the embed above.

Written and directed by Kim Hong-seon, Project Wolf Hunting has the following synopsis: While under heavily armed guard, the dangerous convicts aboard a cargo ship unite in a coordinated escape attempt that soon escalates into a bloody, all-out riot. But as the fugitives continue their brutal campaign of terror, they soon discover that not even the most vicious among them is safe from the horror they unknowingly unleashed from the darkness below deck.

The film stars Seo In-guk, Jang Dong-yoon, Choi Gwi-hwa, Park Ho-san, Jung So-min,...

Stars: Seo In-Guk, Dong-Yoon Jang, Choi Gwi-hwa, Dong-il Sung, Park Ho-San, Moon-Sung Jung, Jung So-Min, Jang Young-Nam | Written and Directed by Hongsun Kim

Project Wolf Hunting begins with a mass return of Korean criminals captured in the Philippines. As they’re being led through Seoul airport somebody with a grudge against one of them detonates a suicide bomb killing himself, his target, and everyone else in the vicinity. To avoid a repeat of this, the next group is to be transported on the Frontier Titan, a specially fitted out cargo ship and delivered to a pier in Busan harbour to which the public doesn’t have access. I guess simply flying them into a military base never crossed anyone’s mind.

The Frontier Titan leaves Manilla with forty-seven criminals, twenty guards, two medics, and the ship’s crew. At least that’s what they think they’re leaving with because...

Tradition is just an empty word in the world of gangsters, and the same could be said also for the world of film distribution. One might expect that a genre fare with an elite festival premiere should end up on the regular repertoire in movie theatres, regionally if not worldwide, but Park Hoon-jung’s “Night in Paradise” landed on Netflix instead earlier this year. We might blame it on the pandemic, but the fact is that the streaming services are expanding regardless of it.

As a screenwriter, Park is best known for his work with Kim Jee-won on the iconic serial killer flick “I Saw the Devil” (2010), but as a director, his most breakthrough work would be his second feature, “New World” (2013). The latter was a crime drama with a dash of action and gangster epic, so it is somewhat expected for the filmmaker to go back to the familiar...

The situation in Myanmar remains dire, the International Coalition of Film makers at Risk (Icfr) has warned, with prominent cultural figures continuing to be imprisoned, and in some instances even killed. To date, more than 100 professionals from the local filmmaking community have been targeted for arrest, it said.

As Deadline reported in February, the country’s military forces, known as the Tatmadaw, seized power in the country after disputing an election result back in November that saw a landslide win for Aung San Suu Kyi’s political party, the Nld.

Widespread demonstrations in response to the action saw thousands of protestors thrown in jail and reportedly more than 700 deaths, while three prominent members of the Nld also died in police custody, according to Reuters.

The Icfr said that the first day of the coup saw three writers – Than Myint Aung, Maung Thar Cho and Htin Lin Oo – arrested along with...

A muscular and unflinching Korean filmmaker with a flair for operatic ultra-violence, Park Hoon-jung does at least one thing better than anyone else on the planet: Shoot legions of suit-wearing gangsters beating the absolute shit out of each other. After scripting 2010’s “I Saw the Devil” and pioneering his particular brand of Musou-inspired mayhem as the director of “The Showdown” the next year, Park came into his own with 2013’s “New World,” a bruising and brilliant mob epic that spends much of its 134-minute run time stuffing Armani-slick henchmen into confined spaces with the chaotic energy of a child pouring a gallon of milk into a teacup. It’s as if someone took the infamous hallway fight from “Oldboy” and stretched it into a crime saga worthy of comparison to “Goodfellas.”

“Night in Paradise” doesn’t play against Park’s strengths — this is, at heart, — but it doesn’t want to rely on them either.