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Kim Seon-ho and Go Youn-jung make a picture-perfect couple in romcom Can This Love Be Translated?
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Can This Love Be Translated? stars Kim Seon-ho (left) as an interpreter and Go Youn-jung as a rising starlet.
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Can This Love Be Translated? (PG13)
Netflix, premiering on Jan 16
Kim Seon-ho, who stole scenes in his cameo role as IU’s love interest in K-drama When Life Gives You Tangerines (2025), is getting ready to steal hearts in the anticipated romcom Can This Love Be Translated?.
Expectations are high for this 12-part series, as it is penned by South Korea’s celebrated screenwriting duo Hong Jung-eun and Hong Mi-ran. Better known as the Hong sisters, they have written many hit K-dramas, including A Korean Odyssey (2017 to 2018), Hotel Del Luna (2019) and Alchemy Of Souls (2022 to 2023).
The story revolves around the unexpected romance between Kim’s character Joo Ho-jin, a multilingual interpreter, and rising starlet Cha Mu-hee, played by Go Youn-jung of Resident Playbook (2025) and Moving (2024) fame.
As they travel the world filming a TV show together, their relationship grows.
Kim and Go have proven to be great performers, and they certainly deliver in the looks department, making a picture-perfect couple. Handsome Japanese actor Sota Fukushi, who plays Ho-jin’s love rival Hiro Kurosawa, ups the visual aspect of the series.
Picturesque scenery of South Korea, Japan, Canada and Italy, where filming took place, adds to the appeal.
Sunshine Women’s Choir (NC16)
134 minutes, now showing
Sunshine Women's Choir is about a group of female inmates and a baby girl born inside the prison.
PHOTO: GOLDEN VILLAGE PICTURES
Get those tissues ready as Taiwanese director Gavin Lin’s drama will bring on the waterworks.
Set in a women’s prison, the Taiwan film follows a group of female inmates and a baby girl born in there. When the child is discovered to have a degenerative eye condition, the inmates decide to form a choir and gift her a memory she will never forget.
Sunshine Women’s Choir is led by Taiwanese actress Ivy Chen, Lin’s leading lady in his 2018 film More Than Blue. It also stars Taiwanese-Japanese actress Judy Ongg, who makes her return to Taiwan cinema after 47 years.
Based on real-life stories, Sunshine Women’s Choir is a heart-warming tale of finding hope and redemption through music and singing. It held its world premiere at the 2025 Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival.
Ateez VR Concert: Light The Way (PG)
60 minutes, GV Bugis+
Ateez VR Concert: Light The Way.
PHOTO: GOLDEN VILLAGE PICTURES
This unique virtual-reality concert is an alternative for those who did not get tickets to the Ateez 2026 World Tour [In Your Fantasy] Singapore concert on Feb 22.
To be held at GV Bugis+ from Feb 23 to March 8, it allows fans of the K-pop boy band to virtually join the octet’s quest to reunite with their fandom, Atiny. The concert film is an immersive experience set in an apocalyptic world and surreal dreamscapes, where fans decide how they want the story to go and which member they want to journey with.
A collaboration with VR concert platform company Amaze, the concert film features Ateez’s hits, such as Inception (2020), Bouncy (K-Hot Chilli Peppers) (2023) and Ice On My Teeth (2023), which are reimagined with custom staging and camera work, blending performance and narrative into a single cinematic experience.
Tickets are priced at $38 for Golden Village Movie Club members and $40 for non-members. Every viewer will receive a photo card, a poster and an official Light The Way ticket (Feb 23 to March 1) or photo card holder (March 2 to 8).
Tickets are available via Golden Village’s website ( str.sg/cCQ6

