South Korea’s Best Picture Hope

Leon Wu
8 min readFeb 8, 2020

No foreign-language film has ever taken top honors at the Academy Awards. But thanks to Donald Trump, Netflix, and a director named Bong Joon Ho, South Korea’s “Parasite” stands a fighting chance.

Photo by Ryoji Iwata on Unsplash

Imagine this. A stocky Asian man, with wire-framed glasses walks up on stage. The black mop of hair on his head suggests that he hasn’t slept in days. Don’t let that fool you. To deafening applause, he’s presented…

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