A film about a Korean-American immigrant family Minari is looking like a strong contender at this year s Academy Awards.
On Monday local time, director Lee Isaac Chung s movie received six Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actress .
Experts say it wasn t such a surprise given the film has shown the same momentum as Bong Joon-ho s Oscar-winning Parasite garnering more than 90 awards and countless nominations already. The momentum is certainly built over the last few weeks and Youn Yuh-jung in particular was winning a number of critique awards and that gives the momentum it needs, it is part of an award conversation.
Time now for This Week in Sports and joining us in the studio is our sports editor Paul Neat.
Paul, there has been a bit of news lately regarding the Korean National Football Team - a friendly with Japan and now a centralized venue for the delayed World Cup qualifiers. What can you tell us? Yes, that’s right. The KFA confirmed at the end of last week that the Korean National Team will be facing Japan away in a friendly on March 25th. The squad was announced on Monday… subject to injury… Son Heung-min is included, as is Hwang Hee-chan but no players have been selected from K League champions Jeonbuk.
It s another two weeks of level two social distancing in South Korea s capital region and one.five for the rest of the country starting Monday.
But a few exceptions have been made to the ban on private gatherings of five or more people.
Now, families of brides and grooms can meet for pre-wedding introductions if there are no more than eight people involved.
And up to eight people can get together for gatherings that include infants and children as long as there s a maximum of four people aged six or older.
The eight-person rule also applies to gatherings of immediate family members from Monday.
All eyes were on music s biggest night the 63rd Grammy Awards, which took place on Sunday local time.
There was high anticipation among K-pop fans over whether global megastars BTS would be able to snatch the last big prize for best pop duo/group performance with the song “Dynamite , but they were pipped to the top prize by Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande s Rain on Me .
Experts have said that the Grammys haven t shown flexibility toward singers from a variety of countries in the past. If you look at the history of the Grammys who has won, who the recording academy has thought was deserving of an award versus public opinion versus the zeitgeist. There has been a disconnect that could have come into play.