SEOUL, July 1 (Korea Bizwire) — The cast and lead crew of director Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning “Parasite” were invited to join the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, according to the Hollywood film trade organization on Tuesday (local time). The academy announced on its website that it extended invitations to 819 artists and [...]
GWANGJU, June 2 (Korea Bizwire) — An incident reminiscent of “Parasite,” the celebrated film from Korean director Bong Joon-ho, was recently reported in South Korea. The Gwangju Seobu Police Station announced on Monday that officers had arrested a man in his 50s who was living surreptitiously at a cinema building in Seo District in the [...]
SEOUL, March 16 (Korea Bizwire) – The Oscar-winning Korean film “Parasite” has been re-released in South Africa and has been gaining popularity for more than a month. Despite the frequent mention of Korea in the South African media due to the spread of the novel coronavirus, Korean films that have been recognized for their work [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 21 (Korea Bizwire) — U.S. President Donald Trump has voiced displeasure over the Academy Awards’ decision to give this year’s best picture Oscar to the South Korean film “Parasite,” news reports said Friday. During a rally in Colorado on Thursday, Trump made the remarks about the Bong Joon-ho-directed film that won four Oscars [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — ‘Chapaguri’, a signature noodle dish introduced in South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar-winning film “Parasite,” is gaining popularity. Creating a new dish by combining two different, but similar foods, such as ramen and black-bean-sauce noodles, is a practice commonly found in South Korean food culture. Carbo Hot Chicken Ramen [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — ‘Chapaguri,’ a signature noodle dish introduced in Oscar-winning film “Parasite,” is now on the menu at company cafeterias. CJ Freshway Corp., a food service affiliate of CJ Group, decided to celebrate the film’s achievement by introducing Chapaguri at all of the restaurants it operates for companies and affiliate institutions. [...]
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, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — The craze over director Bong Jun-ho’s acclaimed film “Parasite” is sweeping through South Korean bookstores after the film’s record haul at the Academy Awards last weekend. Yes24, a local online bookstore, reported Tuesday that the film’s screenplay and storybook made had jumped into the list of the top 10 [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — With director Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece “Parasite” the toast of the Oscar awards, foreign media are paying keen attention to banjiha – semi-basement apartments – which featured prominently in the film and have been interpreted as a symbol of the gap between rich and poor. However, banjiha is a type [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — Rival political parties and lawmakers are attempting to capitalize on the popularity of Oscars-winning “Parasite” in their campaigning for the April 15 parliamentary elections. The ruling Democratic Party (DP) unveiled pledges Wednesday to set up a state-run cinema museum to bolster South Korean films’ forays into overseas markets. The [...]