{"id":621305,"date":"2026-09-11T10:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/621305\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T10:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T10:30:10","slug":"tom-cruise-to-return-to-korea-oct-2-for-13th-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/621305\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise to return to Korea Oct. 2 for 13th visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/806e12a8-be10-4a9d-b9ae-29a451794246.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1280; width: 100%\" alt=\"Tom Cruise poses at a press conference for the film 'Mission: Impossible \u2013 Dead Reckoning Part One' in Seoul, June 29, 2023. Newsis\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Cruise poses at a press conference for the film &#8220;Mission: Impossible \u2013 Dead Reckoning Part One&#8221; in Seoul, June 29, 2023. Newsis<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Hollywood actor Tom Cruise is set to return to Korea, marking his 13th visit to the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Warner Bros. Korea announced Wednesday that Cruise and director Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu, a five-time Academy Award winner, will visit Korea on Oct. 2 to promote their upcoming film \u201cDigger.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">During their visit, Cruise and I\u00f1\u00e1rritu will hold a press conference with local media, where they will discuss the film in depth. They will also meet Korean movie fans in person at a red-carpet event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">\u201cDigger\u201d follows Digger Rockwell (Cruise), an eccentric billionaire and self-styled contrarian, whose drilling facility on the Greenland ice sheet is rocked by a small crack that triggers a catastrophic chain of events threatening the entire world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Cruise\u2019s 13th visit to Korea has drawn particular attention. The actor made his 12th trip to the country last year to promote \u201cMission: Impossible \u2013 The Final Reckoning,\u201d setting a record for the most visits to Korea by a Hollywood actor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">I\u00f1\u00e1rritu is returning to Korea for the first time since his visit in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/30ec69ed-668e-4abf-86fa-d956019703ac.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1280; width: 100%\" alt=\"Tom Cruise speaks during a ceremony honoring David Beckham with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, June 12. AP-Yonhap\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tom Cruise speaks during a ceremony honoring David Beckham with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles, June 12. AP-Yonhap<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">This article from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Times, is translated by a generative AI system and edited by The Korea Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tom Cruise poses at a press conference for the film &#8220;Mission: Impossible \u2013 Dead Reckoning Part One&#8221; in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":["post-621305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}