Walk Up screened at the London Korean Film Festival 2023. This is a transcript of my onstage introduction. Since his debut feature The Day a Pig Fell into the Well came out back in 1996, polyhyphenate filmmaker Hong Sang-soo has become a darling of Korea’s indie scene. It can be hard to keep up with…
Transcript of my filmed introduction to The Woman Who Ran (Domangchin yeoja) for the London Korean Film Festival 2020 Writer/director Hong Sang-soo was born into cinema. After all, his parents owned and ran the film production company Cinetel Soul. Still, he would study theatre not film, first at Chung-ang University, and then get a BA…