When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. As the heir apparent to his father, Kim Il-sung, Kim Jong Il was already quite powerful in the ...

One of the most surprising things learned about North Korea’s Kim Jong-il is his passion for movies, reportedly owning more than 20,000 videos and DVDs, and citing Elizabeth Taylor as one of his ...

When he died in December 2011, Kim Jong-il left behind more than a dynastic regime and a closet full of drab pantsuits. Jong-il, who ruled the hermetic North Korea from his father Kim Il Sung’s death ...

Anora, a film about a sex worker who gets caught up in the world of a Russian oligarch’s son, won best picture at the Oscars.

For American audiences, the Korean War is often called “the Forgotten War.” But in South Korean cinema, it has never been forgotten. South Korean filmmakers have repeatedly revisited the war, not only ...