Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefYoun Yuh-jung, who won the Oscar for best supporting actress in “Minari” earlier this year, will be the subject of a special focus this year at the London Korean Film Festival.
The festival will be held as an in-person event Nov. 4-19, 2021.Youn was this week named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of 2021.The festival’s special focus on her will include the European premiere of a digitally restoration of Youn’s first role in 1970’s “Woman of Fire,” by iconic filmmaker Kim Ki-young.
Also presented in a new 4K restoration and being shown for the first time outside of Korea, is “Angel, Become an Evil Woman,” also directed by Kim, and originally released in 1990.
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