SEOUL – K-pop boy band 2PM member Lee Jun-ho will leave his label JYP Entertainment after 17 years, the company said on March 20. The two parties decided not to renew Lee’s contract ...

A new poem by Steve Kronen. By Steve Kronen But what did we expect? The trees, uprooted, lay on their sides, their tiny nests, so long hidden from our peeping and peering, broken and scattered. The ...

In the dating controversy related to Kim Soo Hyun and Kim Sae Ron, another name which has garnered much attention is that of YouTuber Lee Jin Ho. A month after the South Korean actress was found dead ...

One of Metra’s SD70MACH locomotives pushes a Chicago-bound Milwaukee District North train through Deerfield, Ill., on Feb. 25, 2025. David Lassen CHICAGO — Metra is having “great luck” with its fleet ...

There is a telling scene toward the end of Bong Joon Ho's much delayed, much anticipated Mickey 17. In it, the titular 17 (Robert Pattinson) stands shivering on the loading dock of his spaceship ...

The members of Parasite’s central impoverished family, led by patriarch Kim Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho), are always lying to the film’s wealthy employers in ways that are obvious to the viewer ...

An inspiring tale of grit and resilience will be told to audiences at the first Bristol Distinguished Address Series (BDAS) event of 2025 from UWE Bristol, as it welcomes Nick Hounsfield, founder of ...

There's long been a current of topical anger running through the work of the brilliant South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon Ho. Parasite was a domestic thriller and an indictment of economic inequality.

Director Bong Joon Ho envisioned the interaction between the two families as a cat-and-mouse game of spying, set in an open-plan house. This layout allowed him to depict the spatial relationships ...

From Okja's hybrid super pig to The Host's mutant squid, filmmaker Bong Joon Ho is no stranger to a good cinematic creature. His latest film, Mickey 17, adds an endearing critter to his pantheon ...

Bong Joon Ho considers himself an optimist, even if it’s not exactly obvious from his work. “It doesn’t work to deny the dark reality, to just gloss over it,” he explained to me through ...

SOUTH KOREAN DIRECTOR Bong Joon-ho may have burst onto the scene with mainstream movie-viewing audiences back in 2020, when his masterful film Parasite won Best Picture at the Academy Awards ...