If you’re itching to see films from South Korea and Korean America, September has shaped up to be a good month; that is if you can get to Los Angeles or San Diego.

Unfortunately, the New York Korean Film Festival will have come and gone by the time you’re reading this. But if you were lucky enough to be in the Big Apple Sept. 2-11 to experience the festival’s specialty for recent Korean cinema, you might have caught the U.S. premieres of films like “Another Public Enemy,” “Bunshinsaba,” “Ghost House,” “Hypnotized” and “Innocent Steps.” If not, then check back next August when the NYKFF should be getting ready to return for a sixth year.

From Sept. 16 to 18, the Los Angeles Korean International Film Festival takes over the historic Egyptian Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard for the festival’s second go-round. On Friday the 16th, Park Chul Soo’s “Green Chair,” a Korean film about the sexual relationship that develops between an older women and an underaged teen that also played at Sundance this year, kicks off the proceedings. “The Grace Lee Project,” Grace Lee’s documentary exploring Asian American female identity through interviews with those who share her namesake, is the featured film on Saturday, which also includes a program of short films. Mora Stephens’ “Conventioneers,” a romance that crosses the Red State-Blue State divide when a liberal and a conservative fall for each other at the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City, concludes the festival on Sept. 18. For more information, visit www.lakiff.org.

And as September comes to a close, movies from Korean and Korean American filmmakers will constitute a good chunk of the lineup at the San Diego Asian Film Festival, which expands from four days to eight days in its sixth year. “The Grace Lee Project” and “Conventioneers” make the trek down Interstate 5 to San Diego, and they will be joined by Michael Kang’s “The Motel” and Hosup Lee’s “And Thereafter” as the other features made by Korean Americans. From South Korea there will be “Marathon,” “Springtime” and a retrospective on actor Choi Min Sik, including his tour de force as the lead in “Old Boy” and his latest, “Crying Fist.” And between Sept. 29 to Oct. 6 at UltraStar Mission Valley at Hazard Center (formerly the Mann Theatres), plenty of shorts from Korean Americans will fill in many more programming slots at SDAFF. For more information, visit www.sdaff.org