An eleventh-hour addition to the film festival season, the Korean Film Festival 2006 isn’t exactly the most punctual event on the calendar, but better late than never given the heat Korean Cinema continues to generate. Its headlining reprisal of Bong Joon-ho’s dastardly monster movie The Host is certainly reason enough to postpone any outdoor pursuits if you missed it earlier in the year. On the undercard: The King and the Clown, the personification of a Korean breakout hit (it was the highest grossing domestic film of 2005); Typhoon, a warts ‘n’ all event blockbuster (a la Tae Guk Gi, Shiri etc.); the wildly unrestrained Duelist, an apt example of the aesthetic proficiency and inventiveness Korean filmmakers are reputable for; and our pick, Woman on the Beach, something of a coup considering Hong Sang-so’s films have been curated exclusively by the NZIFF up until this point.