South Korea

The HFPA’s Ting Ting Xu examines Asian film trends through standout films and the authors behind them. After Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite became the first non-English language film in Oscar history to win the award for Best Picture, as well as the Foreign Language Golden Globe, films from South Korea received an unprecedented amount of attention on the global market.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. For its diminutive size, South Korea is the fourth largest movie market for box office revenue, and the fifth in terms of box office admissions, although there are arguments on Reddit for South Koreans being the top movie ticket buyers in the world outside of the US.