I live in Korea and as a result can't watch many Korean movie--afterall, they're not shown with English subtitles. DVDs of late have been released with subtitles, but the rental stores have precious few offerings and even fewer domestic ones (at least in my area).

Frankly, though, I haven't been too impressed with what I've seen. Of course, the best Korean cinema has to offer is what you guys outside of Korea get to see. What I see on TV everynight makes the worst of Hollywood look pretty darn good.

I did see JSA since there were large portions of English dialogue. It was an enjoyable movie, but I really didn't think it was that different from a standard Hollywood movie, just a different setting.

Heard on the (Korean language) news yesterday that the director of Chunhyang recently took home first prize at some international film festival. Can't be more specific due to the language gap.


