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Song Kang-ho

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Ruminations on A Taxi Driver
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Ruminations on A Taxi Driver

14 May 2024 4 min read
The Post-Colonial World of Bong Joon-Ho
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The Post-Colonial World of Bong Joon-Ho

Bong's films are postcolonial in the sense that they often reflect the Korean context by depicting the United States as a neo-colonial empire; however, his postcolonial messages are largely dependent on a reversal of American genre expectations, and, as a result, his films still dialogue with the co
28 May 2023 15 min read
“Glorious” and “Gloomy”: The Drug King and President Park Chung-hee
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“Glorious” and “Gloomy”: The Drug King and President Park Chung-hee

18 Jan 2023 4 min read
Broker is Kore-eda’s Anti-Manichean Masterpiece
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Broker is Kore-eda’s Anti-Manichean Masterpiece

Despite being completely snubbed at the 43rd Blue Dragon Film Awards, South Korea’s more popular film award ceremony, the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker stood an excellent chance to snag a few categories at the 58th Grand Bell Awards—roughly the Korean equivalent to the Academy Awards. And
06 Jan 2023 1 min read
Emergency Declaration, The Best Covid Movie?
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Emergency Declaration, The Best Covid Movie?

Emergency Declaration, the 2021 Korean plane disaster movie, is the Covid film I’ve been waiting for. Most of the major Covid-era films so far have catered too strongly to the fleeting and frequently changing aspects of pandemic life: lockdown, mitigation, quarantine, technology’s reimagined role in connecting us. The
08 Dec 2022 1 min read
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