ISTANBUL & SEOUL, Jun. 4 (Korea Bizwire) –Turkey has expressed its intention to export the domestically produced Altay tank, which incorporates technology from South Korea’s ‘Black Panther’ (K2) main battle tank, to various European countries. In a recent interview with Turkey’s state-run TRT Haber broadcaster on Friday, Haluk Gorgun, the head of the Defence Industry [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 19 (Korea Bizwire) — Marvel’s long-awaited “Black Panther” dominated the weekend box office, selling a staggering 1.9 million tickets, data showed Monday. According to the real-time based tally from the Korean Film Council, the superhero movie roared past the 3 million cumulative audience mark on Sunday, the fifth day of its run. The [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 8 (Korea Bizwire) – This Thursday, the latest Matt Damon flick, “Downsizing”, premieres at cinemas across South Korea. Its premise is built on the fantastical notion of a technology that can ‘downsize’ human beings to 5 inches in size for the purpose of combating overpopulation, and as one can expect, protagonist Matt Damon [...]
BUSAN, March 17 (Korea Bizwire) – The first film shoot for Marvel’s upcoming superhero film Black Panther began on Friday in Busan, South Korea’s largest port city, with hundreds of local film students (or former students) participating as staff or assistant staff members in this rare Hollywood experience. Some 450 students and graduates applied for the shoots [...]