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Though South Korea appeared to have gained control of the coronavirus, one man’s night out might have set the country back. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) confirmed 102 new cases of coronavirus as of Tuesday afternoon, The Korea Herald reports. The new cluster of cases has been traced back to one man who visited multiple […]
Chrissy Teigen has never been one to hold her tongue, especially when she catches wind of people being overtly discriminatory to others. At Sunday’s Oscar Awards, Parasite took home the award for Best Original Screenplay. For some reason, TV host Jon Miller, took Parasite‘s success as an attack on America. A man named Bong Joon Ho […]
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite won big at the 2020 Oscars—despite purported opposition. And it did it in historic fashion. The South Korean black comedy/thriller ended the night with four prizes: Best Original Screenplay (Joon-ho and Han Jin Won), Best Director (Joon-ho), Best Foreign Language Film, and the top award of the night, Best Picture. “We never imagined this […]
On Wednesday night, Parasite director Bong Joon-Ho received the award at the African American Film Critics Association Awards for best foreign film (perhaps a prelude to an Oscar?), and then he used his acceptance speech to charm the crowd with an anecdote about how Spike Lee taught him to properly swear in English. That’s the magic […]
The Wu-Tang Clan might be getting their own theme park. And if they do, it will be a heck of a lot closer to the home of Shaolin than Staten Island. According to the Vice President of Wu-Tang Clan Management Jimmy Kang, the planned theme park centered around the Clan will be in Seoul, South […]
On Monday, prosecutors announced that earlier this month a grand jury had indicted ex-Boston College Student, Inyoung You, for the death of her boyfriend. The 21-year-old You, who is from South Korea, is now facing an involuntary manslaughter charge that resulted from the death of her 22-year-old boyfriend, Alexander Urtula. Urtula, who also attended Boston College, […]
A soldier in the South Korean military went AWOL to catch a screening of Avengers: Endgame. WowTV reports that one soldier with the Republic of Korea Air Force 20th Fighter Wing failed to heed the call to assemble and was instead found in a movie theater watching the endcap of the MCU‘s first era. […]
