A Taxi Driver to Receive European Premiere as LKFF Teaser

Hang Joon's A Taxi Driver will receive its European Premiere courtesy of the London Korean Film Festival.

Set in 1980, A Taxi Driver stars Song Kang-ho as the eponymous driver who picks up a foreign journalist and ends up driving him into what would later become known as the Gwangju Uprising in which around 600 people are estimated to have been killed whilst protesting against the military government which took power after the previous president was assassinated a year earlier. 

A Taxi Driver screens at Picturehouse Central on 14th August, 6.30pm and tickets are already on sale via the Picturehouse website.

You can keep up with all the latest LKFF news as well as information about the regular free screenings held at the Korean Cultural Centre in Central London via the festival's official website, Twitter account, Facebook page and Instagram channel.