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South Korea explodes with joy as ‘Parasite’ sweeps Oscar

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Updated: February 10th, 2020, 15:59 IST
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Bong Joon Ho with the award for the best director for "Parasite" at the Oscars

Bong Joon Ho with the award for the best director for "Parasite" at the Oscars

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Seoul (South Korea): South Koreans reacted with rare collective joy Monday after director Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite won the Oscar for best picture and three other awards, good news that came as their country struggles to guard against coronavirus and counter North Korea’s nuclear threat. The movie’s wins made history in both the Hollywood and South Korean film industries.

The class satire is the first non-English-language film to win best picture in the 92-year history of the Academy Awards, and is the first South Korean movie to ever win an Oscar.

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“Can you believe that Parasite won the Academy best picture?” South Korea’s biggest newspaper, Chosun Ilbo, said in a headline. “It rewrote the Academy’s 92-year-old history,” the paper added.

Bong, Parasite and other Oscar-related news dominated search terms throughout Monday at major internet portal sites, which had been preoccupied with the outbreak of a virus in China that has killed more than 900 people and affected thousands of others, mainly in China.

Worries about the virus have been growing in South Korea, where 27 cases have been reported, though no deaths have occurred.

Sales at tour agencies, restaurants, movie theaters and department stores have sharply declined, raising worries about the impact on South Korea’s already-lagging economy.

But the concerns about the virus and political warfare paused Monday to celebrate Bong’s wins.

“It’s happy news, like welcome rain, to the Republic of Korea, which is depressed, stagnant and thrown into despair due to Wuhan pneumonia,” the main opposition ‘Liberty Korea Party’ said in a statement.

South Korean social media were overwhelmed with congratulatory messages. President Moon Jae-in tweeted that he is proud of Bong and his staff and particularly grateful to them for giving courage and pride to our people who are overcoming difficulties’.

Moon and his advisers began a regularly scheduled meeting by clapping their hands to celebrate Bong’s wins.

At Bong’s alma mater, Seoul’s Yonsei University, students belonging to a school movie club watched the Academy Award ceremony together.

“It’s deeply meaningful for Korean movies and this will open the path for further development. It’s such a great honor. I’m speechless,” said Kim Nam-hoon, 21.

Jeong Ho-cheol, a 26-year-old student, praised Bong for pleasing both movie critics and crowds. “His (Bong) way of dealing with the underside of Korean society and problems such as rich-poor gaps and the way he expresses those issues are very expressive,” said Ho-cheol.

Park Chan-wook, a prominent South Korean movie director who is regarded as Bong’s main rival at home, joined the congratulations.

It is a ‘huge blessing to work in the same industry as a person as talented as Bong and being able to call him a friend’, said Park, who won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for Oldboy in an interview with the Munhwa Ilbo newspaper.

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