Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite might be the first South Korean film to win an Oscar. It would be a fitting reward for the country’s endlessly innovative film industry
When Parasite director Bong Joon-ho got started on a story idea based on his twentysomething experiences as a tutor to Seoul’s super rich, doubtless ending up in the Oscar race for the best picture was not on his radar. No Korean film in history had even been nominated in the foreign language category, let alone for the biggest award of them all.
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