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The legendary director of Oldboy and Decision to Leave will lead the 79th edition of the world's most famous film festival.
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'Squid Game' Season 2 shatters Netflix records with 68M views in 4 days, reigniting interest in Season 1 and cementing
Johnny Depp meets Minamata survivor Shinobu Sakamoto in Tokyo, marking an emotional moment that reconnects the actor with the real
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Jisoo joins Warner Records ahead of her solo mini album Amortage (Feb 14), marking a new era in her career
Netflix's When Life Gives You Tangerines, starring IU & Park Bo-gum, debuts 7 March. A heartfelt K-drama set on Jeju
Adeline Rudolph & Arden Cho star in Perfect Girl, a K-pop thriller where rivals in a supergroup contest face a
How South Korean actor Lee Byung-hun found true international fame in his homeland, and what it means for the future
NewJeans battles agency Ador over alleged mistreatment, contract disputes, and independence, highlighting K-Pop's fraught power dynamics
BTS’s J-Hope donates ₩100M to aid families of Jeju Air crash victims, reflecting his ongoing commitment to charity and disaster
John Cho and Alicia Hannah-Kim join Jun Ji Hyun and Kang Dong Won in Disney+ spy drama Tempest
'Squid Game' Season 2 shatters Netflix records with 68M views in 4 days, reigniting interest in Season 1 and cementing
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Netflix’s Beef returns for Season 2 with a stellar cast, adding Parasite’s Song Kang-ho to Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan &
Hwang Dong-hyuk, creator of Squid Game, earned little from Season 1 despite its $900M Netflix revenue, sparking debates on creator
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Bestselling novelist and Yale PhD candidate Rebecca F. Kuang says America’s universities are “in a tailspin,” broken by skyrocketing tuition,
The first Vietnamese woman in space reveals the heavy emotional toll of the "misogyny" and harassment that followed her dream
Simu Liu opens up about his “very momentous” first meeting with Robert Downey Jr. on the set of Avengers: Doomsday,
The daughters of a woman living with Alzheimer’s have spoken about the first symptoms they noticed before her diagnosis
Korean cinema hit a 20-year low in 2025, but Japanese animation soared—signaling a new era for Asia’s box office power
'This City Is a Battlefield' brings 1946 Jakarta to life through intimate performances by Ariel Tatum, Jerome Kurnia, and Chicco
With the release of 'Fire And Ash', 16-year-old Chinese American actress Trinity Jo-Li Bliss reflects on growing up inside James
Simu Liu opens up about 'The Copenhagen Test,' Bond, and the racial limits of Hollywood’s casting system
'Hamnet' earns major recognition for Chloé Zhao at the EDA Awards, highlighting women filmmakers’ impact