So I watched Burning yesterday and it's been stuck in my mind. I've been watching/reading reviews pretty much non-stop since then and I'm now stunned that it wasn't nominated for an Oscar . It's easily up there with Cold War & Shoplifters as far as 2018 goes. Last year was pretty stacked in the category but I'd easily put it in over Never Look Away & Capernaum.So I decided to look it up and was pretty surprised that not a single South Korean film has ever been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. This blew my mind.Some of the best modern directors are from South Korea. Chan-wook Park (Oldboy, The Handmaiden, Lady Vengeance), Joon-ho Bong (Okja, Snowpiercer, Memories of Murder, The Host), Chang-dong Lee (Burning, Secret Sunshine, Poetry), Jee-woon Kim (I Saw the Devil, A Bittersweet Life, The Good the Bad the Weird). How has not a single one of these films even been nominated for the Oscar?Just by sheer market size you'd think it would get appropriately represented at the Oscars. South Korea is the sixth-biggest market for films worldwide, by box office revenue (behind the US, China, India, Japan, and the UK). It's also in the top-10 in movie production.South Korea has submitted 30 films to the Oscars, and not one of them was nominated. Only Portugal, Romania, Egypt, and the Philippines have more submitted films without a nomination. 28 other different countries have been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.What's up with the under representation of South Korea at the Oscars? via /r/movies http://bit.ly/2KRUXm0
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