BICF News

The 7th Busan International Comedy Festival (BICF), which has established itself as one of Asia’s leading comedy festivals, is preparing for a richer return with reinforced line-ups and plots. The BICF, which has filled the Busan summer with laughter, has contributed to revitalizing comedy in Korea and has grown into Asia’s biggest comedy festival. In […]

The 7th Busan International Comedy Festival (BICF) has released its official poster 100 days before its grand opening on August 23, 2019. The BICF, first launched in 2013 as the first comedy festival in Asia, has gone on to establish itself as one of the biggest festivals in both Korea and the whole of Asia. […]

Congratulations! Thank you for your interest in the 5th Busan International Comedy Festival Volunteer Opportunities. We are pleased to announce 59 successful applicants as follows:   < 18일(화)  면접자 >_이름/전화번호뒷자리 < 19일(수)  면접자>_이름/전화번호뒷자리 1조 강윤* 9969 7조 신찬* 6590 김경* 8528 심소* 3455 김규* 3874 양영* 2319 김다* 6230 양지* 0747 김로* 6261 유민* 6975 […]

Korean comedy stars gathered together and shared cheerful energy to make all the preparations for the 5th Busan International Comedy Festival (BICF)   As many as 29 comedians took part in the recording of the BICF official theme song ‘Laughter Brings Good Luck!’ and boosted the anticipation for the festival.   The theme song was […]

The cheerful official poster of the 5th Busan International Comedy Festival (BICF) was unveiled amid high expectations.   This year’s BICF poster changed its background color from yellow to sky blue, which symbolizes the blue sea and clear summer sky of the host city, Busan. In particular, the poster of this year accentuates neatness and […]

✽ How to apply Click on the image above to go to ‘SellBuyMusic contest’ page.   ✽ Eligibility   No restrictions on genre, format, number of entries   The Song must be completely original in terms of songwriting and must not have been publicly released   ✽ Competition Schedule Reception period: May 23rd – June […]

The BICF hosted a signing event with four comedian members of the BICF, In-kyu Hong, Na-mi Oh, Sung-won Kim, and Ki-young Jang in the Busan Alleyway Festival between May 27 and May 28, 2017. The Busan Alleyway Festival, which is famous as an alleyway networking festival, enhances the value of the alleys of four old […]

On May 13, 2017, five comedian members of the BICF (In-kyu Hong, Yun-ho Cho, Won-hyo Kim, Seung-won Yang and Il-jun Na) participated in the 17th Gwanganri Fishing Village Festival street parade. The festival has been selected as the ‘2017 cultural tourism festival’ by the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism. Starting with the pre-event performance […]

On May 12th, 2017, the BICF Organizing Committee signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) regarding translation with the Pusan University BK21 Program for Global Creative Film Translation in pursuit of the development of comedy in Busan. The ceremony was attended by associate director Gwang-sik Cho, head of the BK21 Program of Pusan National University Ji-hyun […]

On May 2, 2017, comedians Yun-ho Cho, Sang-guk Yang and Jeong-nam Ryu hosted comedy performances as a presentative team of the BICF at a regular assembly of Busan Metropolitan City Hall. They performed a part of the popular TV show Gag Concert, followed by an introduction of the BICF. This comedy show was designed for […]

Executive committee members, including festival director Jun-ho Kim and associate directors Dae-woong Choi and Gwang-sik Cho, participated in the ninth Okinawa International Movie Festival as guests from April 20 to 24, 2017. This festival was founded by Japanese one-hundred-year-old comedy entertainment giant Yoshimoto Laugh & Peace Inc. in 2009, featuring comedy films from around and […]

Mayor of Busan Byung-soo Suh, CEO of BICF Jin-bok Lee, festival director Jun-ho Kim, and organizing members of the BICF visited the Melbourne International Comedy Festival (MICF) in Australia from March 28 to April 4, 2017. The MICF is known as one of the largest comedy festivals in the world along with the Edinburgh Fringe […]