1. The Venue of 93rd Academy Awards - Dolby Theatre and Union Station At the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021, the movie 〈Minari〉 was nominated for Best Motion Picture of the Year, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, Best Performance by

"Grandma, you are not a real grandma. " In the movie , which won the 93rd Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actress for Yuhjung Youn, David (Alan Kim) says to his grandmother Soonja (Yuh-jungYoun). It is because he is upset about Soonja, who does not bake cookies like other grandmothers, an

We see two types of aged women on Korean show series. A gracious ‘mother’ of lofty devotion or an ‘ajumma (a Korean word referring to a married or a middle-aged woman)’ butting in all sorts of matters of the neighborhood, speaking with noisy voice. Getting old means being someone different than befo

Year 2021 is the year for Youn Yuh-jung. She has become a global actress, being the first Korean ever to win an acting Oscar at the Academy Awards. But in that has brought her such a huge glory, she is not even a protagonist. She is a ‘supporting character’ the mother of the main character

Sometimes you come across a friend in an unexpected place. To me it happened on April 1st of 2010. At the time the Memorial Festival for the 100th Birth Year of Literary Men was held under the title of ‘Experiment and Challenge, an Abyss of the Colony’ and I was the chief director of the Literary Ni

Everybody says various things in the course of living, but all he says does not remain as ‘a quotation.’ A quotation is “a group of words taken from a text or speech by a great person.” One should be greater than others for his words to remain as quotations. Youn Yuh-jung has become such a person fo

The movie starts not with words but with the harmony of music filling the whole space accompanying a family who goes into lonesome nature in the beautiful country in search of a new nest, half expectant, half worried. This scene foreshadows the beauty of a family story with the future sprea

In the movie Soon-ja (Youn Yuh-jung) says to her grandson when he sees minari for the first time, “Minari grows well anywhere like weeds. So anyone can pick and eat it. Rich or poor, anyone can enjoy it and be healthy. Minari can be put in Kimchi, put in stew, put in soup. It can be medicin

I wouldn’t be the only one who is having the season absorbed in Youn Yuh-jung. Just as I did for months, indulged in Director Bong Joon-ho after he had awarded the Palme d’Or at the 72nd annual Cannes Film Festival in 2019. He has become a ‘genre of one’s own.’ By winning an Oscar for Best Supportin

“The Penthouse” has been wildly attracting people’s attention. The fact that two seasons of it have already aired in a row and the third is on its way is enough to prove its worth continuing. The series has also gained popularity for its so-called ‘makjang’ storyline, where ‘makjang’ is a modifier u

With the hint of warm summer breeze lazily creeping up on people, a retro wind blew over to the local theaters. The genres of films that go back to the past also vary to the opposite ends of the spectrum. Some find comfort in the warmth of a slow-paced love story that became such a rarity nowadays,

Croatia is unique, not just for its crystal clear and blue sea, but for the veritable treasure lying in the diversity of its rich cultural heritage. Numerous touristic countries are very rich when it comes to the cultural heritage that attracts tourists, but there is only a few of them who can boast

Youn Yuh-jung ‘Sunsaengnim’ syndrome As we young people have been losing our affection for schools and society, the word ‘sunsaengnim’ is starting to be rarely heard. The abbreviation ‘saem’, however, tends to still be used but it is as scarce to call seniors ‘sunsaengnim’ as a token of respect as i

In the name of desire Even when Netflix’s “Kingdom” garnered such worldwide attention in 2019 and Gat, the traditional Korean hat, became the ‘it’ item, I wasn’t surprised. After all, it’s the work of Kim Eun-hee, a writer who knew her way with words. But when the Netflix CEO Reed Hastings mentioned

Amid another wave of Covid-19 cases that arose from the end of last year, I’ve been working from home since then, which meant that I’ve been spending quite a lot of time alone with my cat. He is no longer the youthful cat that he once was before and I’ve been fussing over to find the most adequate b

A critical collection, 『Allegory and the Sublime』 (Munji Publishing, 2021), of literary critic Oh Hyung-yup(professor, Korean Literature Dep., Korea University) is newly released. He who started his career as a critic winning Modern Poetry Recommended New Poet Prize 1994 and Seoul Daily Spring Liter

En juin 1958, le poète, dramaturge et grand reporter, armand Gatti rédige à Pyongyang, en Corée du Nord, le scénario du film « moranbong » qui sera réalisé par Claude-Jean Bonnardot dans les mois qui suivent. Comment cette rencontre entre celui qu'on a appelé, en France, le Rimbaud du XXe siècle

Of course, I was waiting for the call. At the end of 2018, Parasite was in post-production and I knew that the subtitles would need to be done in early 2019. It was one afternoon in December when I was in a café with a group of friends that my phone rang and I answered, "Yes I would love to do the E

Released on April 25, 2003, Bong Joon-ho’s sophomore feature is considered by many academics and critics as one of the finest Korean films in history. Moving away from the realist aesthetic associated with directors such as Park Kwang-su, Bong’s unique sense of dark humour and rich aesthetic tackled

The reason for my visit to the Ruskin Group Theater was because of two ladies. The first was Suzann Lumminis who I had interviewed last month, and the second was Tanya Hong who has been introduced to Cultura magazine a few times. The Ruskin Group Theater is located next to Santa Monica Airport. It w