Haemoo [SEP] country of origin
at , the film was pitched for pre-sales at the American Film Market in November 2013. The first official press conference was held on July 1, 2014.
Box office.
"Sea Fog" was released in South Korea on August 13, 2014. It reached 1,084,375 admissions after one week.
Critical reception.
"The Hollywood Reporter" described the film as "A possible riveting nightmare fogged up by concessions to blockbuster conventions." It praised Hong Kyung-pyo's cinematography and Lee Ha-
joon's production design as "effective in highlighting the differences between the lands of vast, cold port and the unforgiving environments of the sea and cramped insides of the fishing boat," but criticized director Shim Sung-bo's lack of subtlety and reflection, "with "Haemoo" subscribing to many of the conventions of both disaster epics and revenge drama, and the over-dependence of a central seaborne romance."
"Variety" wrote, "Turning a real-life human trafficking tragedy into a comment on social