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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

  1. 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.

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

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

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The story so far

  1. South Korean Fuel Reaches Russia; Australian Army Training Death · The Guardian
  2. DeepSeek Funding, Korean Hacks, Diesel Tax Deferral · Bloomberg.com
  3. Hackers Hit South Korean Banks With Chinese AI Tool, WSJ Says · WSJ
  4. Variety: Café Romance Opens Busan Film Festival (this story)
  5. Asia edges lower after U.S. record highs; oil gains · Economic Times
  6. Korean Investors Lose $1.7 Billion on Leveraged ETFs · Bloomberg.com
  7. South Korean Shares Fall Ahead of Samsung Earnings · Economic Times
  8. CrowdStrike Links China-Based Suspect to AI-Aided Bank Hacks · Investing.com

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