SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Park Chan-wook’s Cannes-winning romance “Decision to Leave” will represent South Korea in next year’s Oscars. The Korean Film Council (KOFIC) said Friday it has chosen the film as the country’s entry for the best international feature film category of the upcoming 95th Academy Awards. The Oscar’s non-English movie section [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Youn Yuh-jung, who became the first South Korean to hoist an acting Oscar on Monday, said she has no big plans for the future but hopes to continue acting throughout her life. “I have no plan. I’ll continue to live (on as I have). It’s not that Youn Yuh-jung [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) – Youn Yuh-jung has won best supporting actress at this year’s Academy Awards for her performance in the immigrant film “Minari,” becoming the first South Korean to win an acting Oscar. At the awards ceremony held at Union Station in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday (U.S. time), Youn was awarded [...]
SEOUL, March 15 (Korea Bizwire) — “Minari,” the drama film about a KoreanAmerican immigrant family, on Monday earned six nominations for the upcoming Academy Awards, including best picture and best supporting actress for South Korean Youn Yuh-jung. In the final list of nominees unveiled by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for this [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Lee Kyung-sook, an 84-year-old Seoul citizen, visited a multiplex theater in the posh southern district of Gangnam on Wednesday afternoon with her daughter and grandson. Wearing a mask to protect herself from the novel coronavirus, she said she was so proud of the homegrown movie “Parasite”‘s triumph in at [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — Bong Joon-ho’s sensation “Parasite” earned six nominations, including best picture, for the upcoming Academy Awards on Monday, becoming the first South Korean movie to compete at the world’s biggest film event. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled its final list of nominations for the 2020 Oscars [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 26 (Korea Bizwire) — For most Koreans, the U.S. winter awards season in the run-up to the Academy Awards in February has been an issue of another world. No South Korean film, director or actor has been the talk of the prestigious accolades given to the year’s best films displaying excellence in cinematic [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — “Burning” has become the first South Korean film to be shortlisted for the Foreign Language Film award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the Academy said on its website on Monday (U.S. time). The movie, by director Lee Chang-dong, was among nine foreign language Oscar contenders, [...]
BUSAN, Korea, Jan. 9 (Korea Bizwire) – Oscar, owned by MSC, the world’s second largest shipping company, arrived at the new port of Busan on January 8. Oscar is the largest container vessel in the world, with a capacity of 19,224 20-feet long containers. Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering built the ship at its Okpo shipyard. The [...]