Archive for April 15th, 2009

Korean Is The New Chinese?

By etrigan - Last updated: Wednesday, April 15, 2009

In retrospect, I note the rise of Korean Cinema by Chan Wook Park’s Oldboy which slipped through Austin in late 2003 (at BNAT 5) and was the first “hit” (relative to foreign film popularity), but this article marks the beginning of the shift with Chunhyang (from Im Kwont’aek) at the 2000 Cannes Festival. Whenever it […]