Second
Look
Korea.
A magazine introducing Korean talent, the people, places, and work behind them, to readers who haven't met them yet.
Photo: Andre Carrotflower, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. For atmosphere, not a still from any Second Look Korea film.
"Before the name, there is only the work."
Second Look Korea is a working title for a magazine built to notice things before anyone else does: a face nobody's learned yet, a real place that never made it onto a map, work still waiting for a wider audience. We're building the first issue now, in English, for readers outside Korea who haven't met any of this yet.
Sixty Films In, Still Someone You'd Have to Be Told About
A sourced introduction to a working Korean character actor whose filmography runs past sixty films and two acting prizes without ever quite crossing into wide recognition.
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The School, Not the Set
A campus, not a set: the Ansan film program a working character actor trained in, offered here because the film discussed elsewhere in this issue would not give up an actual filming location.
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A Film Made Almost Entirely Out of Uncut Scenes
A 2023 Korean feature told almost entirely in single continuous shots, and one of the two 2021 festival credits that anchor Park Jong-hwan's most recent visible work.
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