Newly minted four-time Oscar winner Bong Joon-Ho is being hailed in his native South Korea and elsewhere today for Parasite’s history-making achievement in becoming the first foreign-language film …
for Best Director, Best International Feature and Best Original Screenplay. The quartet of statues made it the winningest picture of the evening and zoomed South Korea from zero Oscars ever to an armful in the space of a few hours.
The win should hopefully help shine a further spotlight on the richness of Korean and world cinema. Bong has certainly done his part, stumping for breaking down barriers created by subtitles while on the campaign trail for what is his first fully Korean project since 2009’sKorea as a whole is the world’s fourth biggest box office market outside North America with over $1.68B in receipts for 2019, up 9.8% in local currency over 2018.
Korean American actor/producer Daniel Dae Kim tweeted, “Guess the Oscars aren’t so ‘local’ anymore. Warmest, deepest congratulations toAnd actor Seo-joon Park, who plays Min in
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