South Korean couple mistakenly vandalizes $440,000 artwork

Chloé Zhao’s history-making Oscars sweep, winning best director and best picture, is being met with a muted response in her country of birth, and even censorship.

Minari star Yuh-Jung Youn made history at the Oscars by becoming the first Korean to win an acting Academy Award and delivered another endearing acceptance speech. The 73-year-old actress from South Korea has a career in film and television that spans over five decades but only recently rose to prominence in the US thanks to her role in Minari.

Veteran actress Yuh-Jung Youn made history when she became the first South Korean actress ever to receive an Oscar nomination in the supporting actress category, and again made history tonight as the first Korean ever to win an acting Oscar for her portrayal as the feisty grandma in Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari.

on Sunday, making her the first Korean and second female Asian acting winner in the history of the Academy Awards.“Lee Isaac Chung, without him I wouldn’t be here tonight.

On Wednesday, California achieved the lowest Covid-19 infection rate in the continental United States. On Thursday came the grim reminder of the toll the virus has taken on the state: The official number of lives lost to the pandemic crossed 60,000 to 60,086.

Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefKorean-American star Don Lee (aka Ma Dong-seok), star of upcoming Marvel film “The Eternals” will produce and star in “The Club,” an action series derived from South Korean scripted format “The Trap.”The production brings together B&C Contents, a company owned by Lee and Chris S. Lee, and U.S.-based Starlings Television.

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Korean film Minari was recently released and it’s all everyone is talking about. Starring Steven Yeun, Youn Yuh-jung, Alan S.

Netflix is so famously data-driven that understanding its growth strategy tends to be ruthlessly straightforward: "Follow the money." Recently, a growing share of the streamer's cash pile has been pouring into two key content categories in East Asia: South Korean drama and Japanese anime. In February, Netflix held a star-studded event in Seoul, where it pledged to spend $500 million on South Korean film and series in 2021 alone.

In Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari, actress Yuh-Jung Youn plays the grandmother who swoops in from South Korea to the small Arkansas town where her Korean-American family have made their home, delightfully disrupting their lives. With her abundant charm and unfiltered ways, she makes a significant impact in this heartwarming story of the American dream.

Iron Maiden have hit back at a lawsuit filed by US-based e-commerce platform Viral Style that accuses one of the metal band’s companies of grabbing $200,000 from its PayPal account without permission in an act that was, it alleged, “akin to a high-tech and sophisticated bank robbery”.

Elsa Keslassy International CorrespondentHulu has acquired U.S streaming rights to Sabrina Van Tassel’s timely documentary “The State of Texas vs. Melissa” which was selected for Tribeca in 2020 and has won a flurry of accolades, including Raindance’s best documentary award.Hulu acquired the documentary from FilmRise, which represents theatrical and digital rights to the film for North America, the U.K.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle shifted base from the UK to the US last year and now currently live in the plush neighbourhood of Montecito, California. However, Prince Harry had to return to the UK earlier this week as his grandfather Prince Philip passed away on Friday.

Netflix provided a rare snapshot of its business fundamentals in South Korea this week —a new requirement for all large companies based there under local law. The results show the global streaming giant building a robust business in the East Asian country despite steadily escalating content spending.

South Korean format producers taking part in this week's digital MIPTV will be Zooming into the international television trade show from a position of uncommon strength. Just as BTS and Bong Joon-ho have elevated K-pop and Korean cinema to the pinnacle of global pop culture in recent years, Korean format producers have been consistently punching above their weight in the international TV space.