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, Oct. 28 (Korea Bizwire) — Oscar-winning actress Youn Yuh-jung will be awarded the highest national cultural medal for her contributions to the promotion of the Korean film industry, the government said Thursday. The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism said it will give Youn the Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit, the highest class of [...]
SEOUL, Sept. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung, who won an Oscar earlier this year for her role in the immigrant film “Minari,” has been named one of the 100 most influential people of 2021 by American weekly magazine TIME. The 74-year-old screen veteran made the annual list released Wednesday (U.S. time), [...]
SEOUL, July 2 (Korea Bizwire) — Two South Korean actresses, including Oscar-winning Youn Yuh-jung, have been invited to the membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) that organizes the prestigious Academy Awards. In the 2021 list of new members in the filmmaking industry released Thursday (U.S. time), AMPAS unveiled the names [...]
SEOUL, May 7 (Korea Bizwire) — “Grandma, you’re not a real grandma,” Soon-ja’s grandson David nags in the poignant immigration film “Minari.” “What is a real grandma?” asks the atypical grandma Soon-ja, played by Oscar-winning South Korean actress Youn Yuh-jung. Both on the shoots and in real life, the 73-year-old veteran may be far from [...]
SEOUL, April 27 (Korea Bizwire) — With Youn Yuh-jung winning South Korea’s first-ever acting Oscar, her maiden film “Woman of Fire,” a melodramatic thriller directed by late auteur Kim Ki-young, has come under the spotlight again 50 years after its release. The 1971 film, a remake of Kim’s previous project “The Housemaid” (1960), revolves around [...]
SEOUL, April 26 (Korea Bizwire) — Youn Yuh-jung won the hearts of Hollywood with her iconic, lovely and foulmouthed grandmother Soon-ja in “Minari,” which follows a Korean immigrant family who starts a new life in rural Arkansas in the 1980s. The movie, directed and written by Korean American Lee Isaac Chung based on his upbringing [...]
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, April 21 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korean screen veteran Youn Yuh-jung has risen to become a safe front-runner in the race for the 2021 Oscars’ best supporting actress for her role in the immigration film “Minari,” a poll by an American awards prediction website showed Wednesday. As of 10 a.m., the 74-year-old actress garnered [...]