Returning after 15 years is not just a comeback. Actress Jun Mi-do is back on stage as Nina in Chekhov's The Seagull. She says the stage is a place tied to her identity, and she also admits to being afraid. The moment shows how, for an artist, w…
Jang Kiha's San San Jok is headed to CGV, where it will meet audiences in a new form. The fact that his first full-length solo album also becomes a short film makes the project stand out. At the same time, a KATSEYE documentary is opening as we…
In July 2026, a live National Theater Changgeuk performance moved onto the big screen. CJ CGV's special screening series, Cinema Tour, is blurring the line between stage and cinema. Traditional art is looking for a way to survive outside the the…
In June 2024, Lotte Shopping made it official: the merger process was being halted. The plan to combine Lotte Cinema and Megabox stopped when the memorandum of understanding, or MOU, expired. What looked like a major shakeup in the movie theater bus…
Key point: In 2026 the period drama "The Man Who Lives with the King" reached ten million admissions in just 31 days. This milestone signals renewed popular support for Korean historical films (period dramas). It is a commercial and cul…
Yeom Hye-ran said she "doesn't know how to relax." That sentence also reads as a record of the full-force effort that built her craft. However, the same words can sound like a regret about placing pressure on others. This column weighs…
Actor Lee Soon-jae died on November 25, 2025, at the age of 91, leaving behind a life that testified to the essence of acting. He held to the conviction that "there is no completion in acting," and he defended that belief on stage and s…
Lee Soon-jaes life and seven-decade career trace a path that helped shape modern Korean acting. He worked across theater, television, film, and variety shows, engraving himself into multiple generations memories. His persistence as an active perfo…
South Korea's film industry is facing a crisis as both audiences and box-office revenue decline. It has not recovered to pre-pandemic levels, and structural weakening is accelerating. The wave of multiplex closures is an early warning from the…
Why is Tarantino's theater move making headlines now? The scene is busy. Reports in 2025 say Quentin Tarantino (62), the Hollywood director behind Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill series, plans to stage his first play in London’s W…
Why Dowon-Amgui Is Getting Attention Now The sense of being on the ground is vivid and immediate. On August 18, 2025, Com2uS published an official Steam page that cranked public interest up a notch. Dowon-Amgui began serialization in 2020 and has si…