In the five years since Park Ji-hyun’s 21st birthday, the South Korean activist has busted an online sex crime ring, published a memoir, revealed her identity to the masses and become a senior adviser to a leading presidential candidate.
He lost, but she didn’t. The election elevated Park to the highest levels of national politics. Just months after emerging from anonymity, Park was named interim co-chair of the Democratic Party and the leader of its rebuilding efforts. She’s also become a lodestar for millions of South Korean women enraged by a rash of high-profile sexual harassment and violence against women
SEOUL â Wonsuk Chin distinctly remembers sitting in a theater in South Korea as a cinema-loving teenager, blown away by Yuh-Jung Youn s performance in the 1985 revenge film Mother.
More than 35 years later, as Youn was named best supporting actress at this year s Academy Awards for her role in the immigrant family tale Minari, marking the first-ever Oscar win by a South Korean actor, Chin sat with tears in his eyes watching the broadcast live at his home in Seoul. She s a trailblazer in so many ways, said Chin, a filmmaker who has worked in both South Korea and the U.S. This actor who s been making Korean movies and dramas for 50 years can become beloved by the world.