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Bong Joon Ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He garnered much media attention through the critically-acclaimed film, ‘Parasite’, which won four major awards at the 92nd Academy Awards.

After completing his military enlistment in 1992, Bong completed a two-year program at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. In an interview, he said he used to sell donuts at a school store for six months so he could buy a camera. He said, “I remember holding that camera while I slept.”
Two of his graduation films were invited for screening at the Hong Kong and Vancouver International Film Festivals. In 1994, he directed the film, ‘White Men’ — a story of one man's unusual reaction to discovering a severed finger. As a fairly new director, nobody knew his name. Bong recalls,
“I had no experience, so there were no actors who knew me. A friend introduced me to an actor named Kim Roe Ha. For his appearance fee, all I gave him was a gift card for a button-up shirt.”
In 2013, the director released his first English-language film, ‘Snowpiercer’, which received strong ticket sales. In 2015, the film ‘Okja’ was announced and premiered at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival where it received a four-minute standing ovation. Most recently, his film ‘Parasite’ won the Best Picture Award at the Oscars—the first non-English film to ever win.
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