Hints and tips:
...Joon Sung Park, a computer science PhD student at Stanford, told me. He’s the lead author of the recent paper describing the project....
...“The controversy over box office rigging has undermined public confidence in the local film industry,” said culture minister Park Bo-gyoon last month....
...In 2020, the Best Picture Oscar was won by Parasite, directed by Park’s longtime associate Bong Joon-ho. Netflix monster hit Squid Game followed....
...In November 2012, a music video from South Korean singer Park Jae-sang, more popularly known as Psy, became the most-watched video on YouTube ever....
...The book is almost a primer for Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning film Parasite, the luxurious rational space of a high-status house in Seoul hiding dark secrets of violent inequality in its bowels....
...When Park Mi-sook held a funeral ceremony for her late son Jang Duk-joon in Daegu, South Korea, last October, managers from his former employer Coupang gave her an envelope containing Won3m ($2,600) in cash...
...Chung Joon-mo, head of the country’s art appraisal centre and the former top curator at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, is supportive of allowing tax breaks if the artworks are donated...
...“There is a limit to relying on Netflix too much,” says Park Hyuck-tae, industrial policy team leader at KOCCA, which coordinates development and promotion of the Korean content industry....
...Let’s just say there will be moments when the plot alone provides the kind of thrill more familiar from amusement park rides that spin the passenger upside down. Welcome to Bong Joon Ho World....
...I love Bong Joon-ho’s other works too – like The Host and Snowpiercer; subtitled films often lose nuance and the subtle feeling of accents and behaviour, but he’s brilliant at capturing all of it....
...More than 14,000 at-risk people have now been tested, according to Seoul mayor Park Won-soon....
...Two years later Park Chan-wook’s crime thriller Oldboy, which rapidly developed a cult following, won the Grand Prix award....
...A new ‘cultural superpower’ As the final curtain drew on the BTS world tour last October, singer Kim Nam-joon — known as RM — sobbed on stage at Seoul’s Olympic stadium as he told BTS fans — a group dubbed...
...Celebrity spots include Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas, director and star of Pain and Glory, and Parasite’s South Korean director Bong Joon-ho....
...A warehouse worker in Manchester’s Trafford Park, who asked not to be named, shares the doubts about labour’s bargaining power....
...There’s a beautiful little beach and you drive through a national park to get there....
...“Korean investors are thinking more about investment returns so activist investors’ campaigns will intensify,” said Choi Joon-chul, head of VIP Asset Management....
...“The industry needs to reinvent itself in the wake of this,” said Park Yoo-kyung, an adviser at APG Asset Management. Others agree....
...Unlike his fellow Korean contemporaries Bong Joon-ho and Park Chan-wook, Lee hasn’t gone overseas to work (and doesn’t plan to)....
...Cho Yong-joon, a lawyer with law firm Sejong, said the case has tarnished the transparency of South Korean court rulings....
...But the company’s reputation has been tainted by a bribery scandal involving the country’s former president Park Geun-hye....
...Rwanda has gorillas, a game park with the big five animals, good air links and an impressive new convention centre in Kigali, the well-functioning capital....
...Hong Joon-pyo, leader of the Liberty Korea party, said the government was “obsessed with political revenge”....
...“We cannot avoid what Japan has gone through,” said Park Chong-hoon, head of research at Standard Chartered in Seoul....
...Chat show host Sir Michael Parkinson has said the intention was to create a club with “a car park full of Lamborghinis”....
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