WASHINGTON, Oct. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — Renowned Korean American author Min Jin Lee on Thursday congratulated South Korean author Han Kang on her historic win of the Nobel Prize in literature this week, saying Han deserves “this global recognition.” The Swedish Academy announced Han as this year’s laureate, recognizing the 53-year-old “for her intense poetic [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple TV+’s Korean language drama “Pachinko” has won the best foreign language series at this year’s Critics Choice Awards. At the ceremony held by the Critics Choice Association in Los Angeles on Sunday (U.S. time), “Pachinko” won the trophy in the TV category to beat eight other contestants. A [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — Apple TV+’s “Pachinko” took home a prize at this year’s Gotham Awards, becoming the second Korean TV series to win at the American awards ceremony for independent films and series. The eight-part drama series won in the “Breakthrough Series — Long Format (over 40 minutes)” category at the 32nd [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — Min Jin Lee, the author of historical novel “Pachinko,” on Monday gave credit to artists behind the Korean Wave for the wide recognition of her works and other Korean American novels in the United States. In a press conference to promote the publication of the new Korean edition of [...]
SEOUL, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — Oscar-winning actress Youn Yuh-jung has emerged as a key contender for an Emmy Award for her role in the drama “Pachinko,” raising hopes she could be the first South Korean to win both an Oscar and an Emmy. At the Academy Awards last year, Youn was named Best Actress [...]
SEOUL, April 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The rising popularity of the period drama “Pachinko,” based on the namesake English novel and released by Apple TV+ last month, has fanned the sales of the Korean translation of its original book here in South Korea. The translation of “Pachinko,” published in March 2018 by local publisher Literature [...]
SEOUL, March 18 (Korea Bizwire) — A co-director of the upcoming period drama “Pachinko” said Friday the show is specifically about a Korean family moving to Japan in the 20th century, but it also tells a timelessly universal story of immigrants throughout the world. Based on the namesake novel written by Korean American author Min [...]