Antarctic Journal is a 2005 South Korean film. It is the feature film debut by director Yim Pil-sung. The film mixes elements of psychological thriller and classical horror films while showing the hardships met by a modern Korean antarctic expedition trying to reach the pole of inaccessibility. The film generated some buzz before its release due to its large budget (over ) and notable cast, but wasn't a box office hit. Plot During their journey to the Pole of Inaccessibility (POI), the remotest point of the Antarctic, the expedition of six men, led by Captain Choi Do-hyung, discovers a journal that was left behind by a British expedition 80 years earlier. The journal was remarkably preserved in a box in the snow and Kim Min-jae, another member of the expedition, gets the job of examining it. It turns out that the two expeditions shared the same goal and soon other strange similarities between them start to show up. Will they make it to their destination before the sun goes down for the Antarctic winter? Cast Song Kang-ho - Choi Do-hyung Yoo Ji-tae - Kim Min-jae Choi Deok-moon - Seo Jae-kyung Kim Kyeong-ik - Yang Geun-chan Park Hee-soon - Lee Young-min Yoon Je-moon - Sung-hoon Kang Hye-jung - Yoo-jin Sam Hammington - English expedition party (voice) Oh Hee-joon as Person Reception Derek Elley from Variety wrote, "Some awesome widescreen lensing, with New Zealand convincingly repping the polar wastes, can't compensate for the dramatic emptiness of Antarctic Journal, in which the script gets lost along with the explorers." See also List of Korean-language films Cinema of Korea K-Horror Contemporary culture of South Korea References External links Kyu Hyun Kim's review at Koreanfilm.org 2005 films 2000s adventure drama films South Korean adventure drama films South Korean thriller drama films South Korean mystery thriller films Films set in Antarctica Films shot in New Zealand Films directed by Yim Pil-sung Films with screenplays by Bong Joon-ho 2000s Korean-language films 2005 thriller drama films 2000s mystery thriller films Showbox films 2005 directorial debut films 2000s South Korean films