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‘Buttercup’, a movie about the Korean immigrant family’s settlement in the United States, won the Golden Globe Foreign Language Film Award.
Although it is an American film, there are more Korean ambassadors than English, which has led to controversy over discrimination in the United States.
This is reporter Jeon Jeon.
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A movie about the story of a Korean immigrant who came to an unfamiliar American land in the 1980s.
So, although it is an American movie, the lines of the main character’s family are more in Korean than in English.
“Do you remember what I said while getting married? I asked to go to America and save each other.”
“remember.”
Minari, a film with a high proportion of’Korean’ ambassadors, has won over 70 awards in the United States since last year, and won the Golden Globe Foreign Language Film Award, one of the two largest film awards in the United States.
“Golden Globe (Foreign Language Film Awards) Buttercup!”
However, in the local media, there was regret and criticism for receiving a foreign language film award, not a work award.
It is a kind of discrimination that applies the criterion that “if more than 50% of the ambassadors are not English, it is a foreign language film”, even though it deals with the universal sensibility of suffering, healing and overcoming that American immigrants experience.
The New York Times said, “It’s wrong that Buttercup didn’t even compete in the art category,” and CNN pointed out that “more than 1 in 5 Americans speak a language other than English at home.”
Regarding the controversy, director Jeong Isak of’Minari’ appeared in the Golden Globe awards video with her daughter, saying, “Family has a language of its own,” saying that the nationality of the language is not important.
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“The language family speaks is’the language of sincerity’ that cannot be defined in English or a foreign language. I also try to learn that language and try to pass it on.”
The movie’Buttercup’, which caused calm ripples in the United States, a multi-ethnic country that speaks more than 350 languages, is being featured in the Academy next month as a leading nominee, such as the’Supporting Actress Award’.
This is MBC News Jeon Jeon.
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