Parasite (2019), directed by Bong Joon-ho, became the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. Its global success occurred in the context of South Korea’s government subsidies and screen quota system to develop a competitive national cinema.
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The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.
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