Variety: Café Romance Opens Busan Film Festival
At a glance
- First reported by Variety: “‘The Table: Day and Night’ Review: Café-Based Korean Romance With Kim Min-ha and Han Sun-hwa Is All Froth, No Kick”.
- Covered on BBN on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 6:32 PM ET on The Recap, by Chip Darnell and Gloria Vance.
- Topics: South Korean.
- BBN covered this story before: Hackers Hit South Korean Banks With Chinese AI Tool, WSJ Says (October 6).
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- Variety‘The Table: Day and Night’ Review: Café-Based Korean Romance With Kim Min-ha and Han Sun-hwa Is All Froth, No Kick
What BBN said about it

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorVariety reviews "The Table: Day and Night," a Seoul café romance opening the Busan Film Festival, and calls it all froth, no kick.

Gloria Vance · World News AnchorFour vignettes in one coffee shop. I've been thrown out of embassies with more plot, Chip.

Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorGloria, I love a café. Bottomless refills, zero conflict, and nobody ever asks me to leave.
The story so far
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