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Bong Joon Ho won the Oscar® for Best Director for Parasite (2019), which also won Best Picture, the first foreign film to do so, and two other Academy Awards. Parasite was the first Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes. These achievements mark a new career peak for the director, who first achieved wide international acclaim with 2006’s monster movie The Host and whose forays into English-language film with Snowpiercer (2013) and Okja (2017) brought him further recognition. As this timely book reveals, even as Bong Joon Ho has emerged as an internationally known director, his films still engage with distinctly Korean social and political contexts that may elude many Western viewer...
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The work of South Korean artist Lee Lee Nam is at the crossroads of tradition and modernity, east and west, authenticity and duplication. He often refers to art history and thereby created a dialogue between media technology and its cultural basis. Lee Lee Nam lifts the barrier between cultures and time periods, and questions the way we deal with art. Exhibition: Update biënnale, Zebrastraat Gent, Belgium (05.11. - 04.12.2016).
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In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world. The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an ageing New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing tow...