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PIFAN
The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (), or BiFan, formerly known as Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival or PiFan, is an international film festival held annually in July in Bucheon, South Korea. Inaugurated in 1997, the festival focuses on South Korean and international horror, thriller, mystery and fantasy films, with particular attention to Asian cinema from East Asia and Southeast Asia. It is a non-competitive international film festival, with partial competition, awarding a number of awards. History The inaugural festival was held in 1997. Until 2015, it was known as the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, or PiFan. The festival faced a boycott in 2005 to protest what was seen by critics as meddling by Bucheon mayor Hong Geon-pyo. A rival event called RealFanta was organized that year on the same dates as BiFan by former festival director Kim Hong-joon. The festival returned in 2006 without any dispute under the direction of veteran filmmak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bucheon
Bucheon (; ) is a city in Gyeonggi Province, South Korea. Bucheon is located away from Seoul, of which it is a satellite city. It is located between Incheon and Seoul. Bucheon is the second most densely populated city in South Korea after Seoul, and as a result, administrative districts were abolished in July 2016 in favor of providing greater public service in community centers. Major manufacturing operations are located in the northern areas of the city, while the areas in the south where Seoul Subway Line 7 and Seoul Subway Line 1 pass are dense commercial and residential areas. History In 1914, the outer areas of Incheon (including Gwangyo-dong, old Incheon's city center) and Bupyeong County were joined under the name ''Bucheon''. In 1931, Gyenam township (''myeon'', 계남면) was renamed Sosa township (''myeon'', 소사면). In 1936, the westernmost part of Bucheon, then part of old Incheon, was incorporated in Incheon and in 1940 some other part of old Incheon bel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yonhap News Agency
Yonhap News Agency (; ) is a major news agency in South Korea. It is based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap provides news articles, pictures, and other information to newspapers, TV networks and other media in South Korea. History Yonhap was established on 19 December 1980, through the merger of Hapdong News Agency and Orient Press. The Hapdong News Agency itself emerged in late 1945 out of the short-lived Kukje News, which had operated for two months out of the office of the Domei, the former Japanese news agency that had functioned in Korea during the Japanese Japanese colonial era. In 1999, Yonhap took over the Naewoe News Agency. Naewoe was a South Korea government-affiliated organization, created in the mid 1970s, tasked with publishing information and analysis on North Korea from a South Korean perspective through books and journals. Naewoe was known to have close links with South Korea's intelligence agency, and according to the British academic and historian James Hoar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Festivals In South Korea
For older or historical observances in Korea see traditional festivals of Korea. Many new festivals have originated in South Korea in response to the country's Tourism in South Korea, tourism initiatives. Contributing to this growth is a gradual change to a five-day work week and greater leisure. Koreans mostly use the Gregorian calendar, which was officially adopted in 1896. However, traditional holidays are still based on the old calendar. Lists of festivals by region Seoul ''Seoul Lantern Festival'' *Region: Around Cheonggyecheon, accessible by Seoul Subway Line 1, Jonggak Station, or Seoul Subway Line 2, City Hall Station (Seoul). *Date (Schedule): From the first week of November to the third week of November, approximately *History: The festival was held in 2009 for the first time in Seoul along with the restored Cheonggyecheon stream. During 12 days, over 520,000 people visited this festival. The next year, in 2010, the main theme was 'Seoul, Forest of Life for Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation
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List Of Fantastic And Horror Film Festivals
List of film festivals and festival sections dedicated to fantastic, fantasy, horror, sci-fi and cult genre films. Sitges Film Festival in Spain, Fantasia International Film Festival in Canada, and Fantastic Fest in the United States are generally considered to be the three largest and most prestigious festivals for fantastic and horror films. Other important genre festivals include Beyond Fest, Brooklyn Horror Film Festival, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival, Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, Fantaspoa, Fantasporto, FilmQuest, FrightFest, MOTELX, Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival, Nightmares Film Festival, Overlook Film Festival, Screamfest, Telluride Horror Show and Toronto After Dark. Some general film festivals also have sections for genre films, the most prestigious ones being Midnight Madness at TIFF, Midnight sidebars at Sundance Film Festival, Midnighter at SXSW, Escape from Tribeca at Tribeca Festival and Midnight Screeni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Stop In Yuma County
''The Last Stop in Yuma County'' is a 2023 American neo-Western crime thriller film written and directed by Francis Galluppi in his feature directorial debut. It stars Jim Cummings, Jocelin Donahue, Richard Brake, Faizon Love, and Michael Abbott Jr. ''The Last Stop in Yuma County'' premiered at Fantastic Fest on September 23, 2023 and was given a limited theatrical release in the United States before being released on digital platforms on May 10, 2024, by Well Go USA Entertainment. Plot At a remote desert location in Yuma County, Arizona, in the 1970s, a traveling knives salesman stops at a filling station. Vernon, the station and motel attendant, informs him that the station's pumps are dry, and there are no other filling stations for over , but that a refueling truck is expected to arrive soon. On the radio, the salesman hears about a bank robbery earlier that morning in Buckeye, where the robbers fled with approximately $700,000 in a green Ford Pinto with a damaged rear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sports Kyunghyang
The ''Kyunghyang Shinmun'' () is a major daily newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as poli ... published in South Korea. It is based in Seoul. The name literally means ''Urbi et Orbi Daily News''."Who is the ''Kyunghyang Shinmun'' (''Kyunghyang Daily News'')" ''Kyunghyang Shinmun'' website (English). Retrieved 2011-10-06. History ''Kyunghyang Shinmun'' was founded in 1946 by the Catholic Church, which explains its name. Before the Korean War, it was edited by Fr. Peter Ryang, a refugee from the North, and its circulation was 100,000. ' ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christopher Murray (actor)
Christopher Murray (born March 19, 1957) is an American actor. He is the son of actors Don Murray and Hope Lange, as well as the stepson of film director Alan J. Pakula, Lange's second husband. Career Murray appeared in a number of notable films, beginning with Pakula's 1976 film ''All the President's Men''. He appeared in two other films directed by Pakula, '' See You in the Morning'' (1989) and '' The Pelican Brief'' (1993). He has also appeared in the films ''I Am the Cheese'' (1983), '' And God Created Woman'' (1988), '' Just Cause'' and ''Virtuosity'' (both 1995) and ''Dante's Peak'' (1997). He has also guest starred in a number of notable television series that include, ''Knots Landing'', '' China Beach'', ''L.A. Law'', ''Murder, She Wrote'', '' JAG'', '' NCIS'', ''Beverly Hills, 90210'', ''The West Wing'', '' 24'', '' 7th Heaven'', ''Crossing Jordan'', '' Parks and Recreation'', '' Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction'' and ''Mad Men''. From 2005 to 2008, Murray had a recur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ye Ji-won
Ye Ji-won (; born February 1, 1973) is a South Korean actress. Career She is best known for her leading role in the hit sitcom ''Old Miss Diary'', and her more serious turns in Hong Sang-soo Hong Sang-soo (Korean language, Korean: 홍상수; born 25 October 1960) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. An acclaimed and prolific filmmaker, Hong is known for his Slow cinema, slow-paced films about love affairs and everyday d ... films '' Turning Gate'' and '' Hahaha''. In October 2018, Ye signed with new agency The Queen AMC. Filmography Film Television series Web series Television shows Hosting Theater Ambassadorship * Seoul Dance Film Festival (SeDaFF) Ambassador (2021–2025) Awards and nominations State honors Notes References External links Ye Ji-won Fan Cafeat Daum * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ye, Ji-won 1973 births Living people Actresses from Seoul People from Eunpyeong District South Korean female taekwondo practitioners ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Sung-ha
Jo Sung-ha (; born August 8, 1966) is a South Korean actor. He is best known for his supporting roles in '' The Yellow Sea'' (2010), '' Helpless'' (2012), and ''Korean Peninsula'' (2012) and ''The K2 ''The K2'' () is a 2016 Korean drama, South Korean television series starring Ji Chang-wook, Song Yoon-ah and Im Yoon-ah. It premiered on tvN every Friday and Saturday at 20:00 (Time in South Korea, KST) from September 23 to November 12, 2016 for ...'' (2016). Filmography Film Television series Variety show Web shows Theater Awards and nominations References External links * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Jo, Sung-ha South Korean male film actors South Korean male musical theatre actors South Korean male television actors 1966 births Living people Male actors from Ulsan Seoul Institute of the Arts alumni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Squid Game
''Squid Game'' () is a South Korean Utopian and dystopian fiction, dystopian Survival film, survival Thriller (genre)#Television, thriller horror television series created, written and directed by Hwang Dong-hyuk for Netflix. The series revolves around a secret contest where 456 players, all of whom are in deep financial hardship, risk their lives to play a series of deadly children's games for the chance to win a prize. The series' title draws from ''Squid (game), ojingeo'' ("squid"), a Korean children's game. Lee Jung-jae, who portrays series protagonist Seong Gi-hun, leads an ensemble cast. Hwang conceived the idea based on his own economic struggles, as well as the Economic inequality in South Korea, class disparity in South Korea and capitalism. Although he wrote the story in 2009, Hwang could not find a production company to fund the idea until Netflix took an interest around 2019 as part of a drive to expand their foreign programming offerings. The Squid Game season 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Newsis
Newsis News Agency () or Newsis is a privately owned news agency in South Korea. Prior to the launch of Newsis, the Yonhap News Agency Yonhap News Agency (; ) is a major news agency in South Korea. It is based in Seoul, South Korea. Yonhap provides news articles, pictures, and other information to newspapers, TV networks and other media in South Korea. History Yonhap was esta ... was the only news agency in South Korea. It was launched in September 2001. Newsis' news is only available in Korean. The newspaper had a predecessor, News Syndicate Korea () that was founded in 1995. It took a legal battle that lasted several years to receive permission to register as a telecommunications company. Once permission was granted in June 2001, Newsis was founded. References External links * News agencies based in South Korea Mass media companies established in 2001 Mass media in Seoul South Korean companies established in 2001 {{Media-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
