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73-532: Park Chan-wook ( Korean :  박찬욱 ; IPA: [pak̚ tɕʰanuk̚] ; born 23 August 1963) is a South Korean film director , screenwriter , producer , and former film critic . He is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of South Korean cinema as well as 21st-century world cinema . His films, which often blend crime , mystery and thriller with other genres, have gained notoriety for their cinematography, framing, black humor and often brutal subject matters. After two unsuccessful films in

146-531: A booby trap . He takes Ryu to the riverbed where his daughter died and drags him into the water. Dong-jin slashes Ryu's Achilles tendons and waits for him to drown. He then gets a call from the hospital as Peng's child has died. After Dong-jin dismembers Ryu's corpse, Yeong-mi's anarchist associates arrive and stab Dong-jin, pin a note to his chest with a knife and leave him to die. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance opened in South Korea on March 29, 2002, and had

219-552: A system of speech levels and honorifics indicative of the formality of any given situation. Modern Korean is written in the Korean script ( 한글 ; Hangeul in South Korea, 조선글 ; Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea), a system developed during the 15th century for that purpose, although it did not become the primary script until the 20th century. The script uses 24 basic letters ( jamo ) and 27 complex letters formed from

292-447: A "monument of film history". Park has a history of successful collaborations with various talented individuals in the film industry. Among these collaborations, the longest-standing partnership is with Editor Kim Sang-bum . Their relationship dates back to when Park, then a college student, joined the directing department led by editor-in-chief Kim Sang-bum . It is worth noting that Editor Kim Sang-bum 's late father, Editor Kim Hee-soo,

365-462: A Cyborg, But That's OK , Thirst , and The Handmaiden . Chung is known for his exceptional use of lighting and camera work, and his visual style has been a strong match for Park's atmospheric and visually stunning films. He has frequently collaborated with screenwriter Jeong Seo-kyeong on several projects, such as Sympathy For Lady Vengeance , I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK , Thirst , The Handmaiden , and Decision to Leave . Park has

438-463: A Cyborg, But That's OK . In 2009, Park directed the vampire film Thirst , starring Song Kang-ho , which won the Prix du Jury (alongside Fish Tank , directed by Andrea Arnold ) at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival . He considered directing Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy but ultimately turned it down. In 2011, Park said his new fantasy-horror film Paranmanjang ( Night Fishing ) was shot entirely on

511-484: A Korean influence on Khitan. The hypothesis that Korean could be related to Japanese has had some supporters due to some overlap in vocabulary and similar grammatical features that have been elaborated upon by such researchers as Samuel E. Martin and Roy Andrew Miller . Sergei Starostin (1991) found about 25% of potential cognates in the Japanese–Korean 100-word Swadesh list . Some linguists concerned with

584-493: A May 2004 interview with The Hollywood Reporter , Park listed Sophocles , Shakespeare , Kafka , Dostoevsky , Balzac and Kurt Vonnegut as influences on his career. His list of 61 favorite films for LaCinetek includes multiple entries of works by Luchino Visconti , Abel Ferrara , Michelangelo Antonioni , Mikio Naruse and Alfred Hitchcock . He has named Taxi Driver by Martin Scorsese as one of his favorite films,

657-532: A Rainy Day , directed by Kwak Jae-yong ( My Sassy Girl ). Park's debut feature film was The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream (1992). After five years, he made his second film, Trio . Park's early films were not successful at the box office, and he pursued a career as a film critic to make a living. In an interview in 2017, he said "Many people think my directorial debut film is JSA, but I want to keep it that way". In 2000, Park directed Joint Security Area , which

730-480: A core vowel. The IPA symbol ⟨ ◌͈ ⟩ ( U+0348 ◌͈ COMBINING DOUBLE VERTICAL LINE BELOW ) is used to denote the tensed consonants /p͈/, /t͈/, /k͈/, /t͡ɕ͈/, /s͈/ . Its official use in the extensions to the IPA is for "strong" articulation, but is used in the literature for faucalized voice . The Korean consonants also have elements of stiff voice , but it is not yet known how typical this

803-463: A few extinct relatives which—along with the Jeju language (Jejuan) of Jeju Island and Korean itself—form the compact Koreanic language family . Even so, Jejuan and Korean are not mutually intelligible . The linguistic homeland of Korean is suggested to be somewhere in contemporary Manchuria . The hierarchy of the society from which the language originates deeply influences the language, leading to

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876-547: A financial failure that polarized critics, followed by Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005), both of which received critical acclaim and were financially successful. Oldboy in particular is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made , and helped establish Park as a well-known director outside his native country. Most of Park's works following The Vengeance Trilogy were also commercial and critical successes both in South Korea and internationally, such as Thirst (2009), The Handmaiden (2016), which earned Park

949-495: A new installment in the Vengeance Trilogy , and an adaption of Donald E. Westlake 's novel The Ax . Park had first discussed adapting the book in 2009, when he received approval from Costa-Gavras who owned the rights and directed a previous rendition of the novel. In May 2020, it was announced that he was working on his next film's screenplay, tentatively titled Heeojil gyeolsim ( The Decision to Break Up ). It

1022-574: A possible relationship.) Hudson & Robbeets (2020) suggested that there are traces of a pre- Nivkh substratum in Korean. According to the hypothesis, ancestral varieties of Nivkh (also known as Amuric ) were once distributed on the Korean Peninsula before the arrival of Koreanic speakers. Korean syllable structure is (C)(G)V(C), consisting of an optional onset consonant, glide /j, w, ɰ/ and final coda /p, t, k, m, n, ŋ, l/ surrounding

1095-408: A request for ransom to Dong-jin, and he obliges. Upon returning home with the ransom money, Ryu discovers that his sister learned that Yu-sun was kidnapped and, not wanting to be a burden any longer, killed herself in the bathtub. Ryu takes Yu-sun and his sister's body to a riverbed they frequented as children to bury her. Distracted by the burial and unable to hear, Ryu is unaware when Yu-sun slips into

1168-473: A stab wound in the process. Meanwhile, Dong-jin finds Yeong-mi and tortures her with electricity, also killing a deliveryman who comes to her apartment. She apologizes for Yu-sun's death but warns Dong-jin that her terrorist friends will kill him if she dies. Unfazed, Dong-jin electrocutes her. Ryu returns to Yeong-mi's apartment and sees the police removing her corpse. Dong-jin locates Ryu's new whereabouts and waits for Ryu to return. He knocks Ryu unconscious with

1241-518: A talent for attracting top-tier acting talents. Some of Korea's most well-known stars, such as Choi Min-sik and Song Kang-ho , have been integral parts of his casting selection. Song Kang-ho , in particular, has appeared in six of Park's feature length films. Park Hae-il and Shin Ha-kyun have also worked with Park on multiple occasions, three and four, respectively. Their collaborations have been highly regarded by audiences and critics alike. Park

1314-416: A worldwide box office gross of US$ 1,954,937 . The film received a low-profile North American theatrical release from Tartan Films beginning August 19, 2005, over three years after it debuted in South Korea. In its opening weekend, it collected US$ 9,827 ( US$ 3,276 per screen) from three New York City theaters. It played on six screens at its most widespread, and its total North American box office take

1387-430: Is a deaf-mute man who works in a factory. His ailing sister is in desperate need of a kidney transplant . Unfortunately Ryu's blood type is not a match. After he loses his job, Ryu contacts a group of black market organ dealers to exchange one of his kidneys as well as 10 million Won for one that his sister can use. However, the dealers disappear after taking Ryu's kidney and severance money. A legitimate kidney donor

1460-480: Is active as a multimedia artist. Park was introduced to his future wife, Kim Eun-hee, by a mutual friend when she was a student at Ewha Womans University . At the 15th Marrakech International Film Festival , Park paid tribute to his wife Kim Eun-hee for her support throughout his career. Park's daughter, Park Seo-woo, studied at the Korea National University of Arts , and worked as a member of

1533-656: Is an agglutinative language . The Korean language is traditionally considered to have nine parts of speech . Modifiers generally precede the modified words, and in the case of verb modifiers, can be serially appended. The sentence structure or basic form of a Korean sentence is subject–object–verb (SOV), but the verb is the only required and immovable element and word order is highly flexible, as in many other agglutinative languages. Question 가게에 gage-e store- LOC 가셨어요? ga-syeo-sseo-yo go- HON . PAST - CONJ - POL 가게에 가셨어요? gage-e ga-syeo-sseo-yo store-LOC go-HON.PAST-CONJ-POL 'Did [you] go to

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1606-535: Is babysitting her. Ryu, his sister and Yeong-Mi treat Yu-Sun with kindness while she is with her kidnappers, and when Yu-Sun reveals that her mom left the house after her parents' divorce, Ryu makes a necklace for Yu-Sun adorned with beads and seashells. While Ryu's sister blowdries Yu-Sun's hair, she asks her to come visit her again and gives her a note with her phone number. She then discovers Ryu job termination paper in his pants pocket while doing laundry and calls Ryu's employer to inquire. Meanwhile, Ryu and Yeong-mi send

1679-426: Is behind the murder but they find Peng and his family dead by suicide in their home. Dong-Jin realizes one of the children is barely alive and take him to the hospital, hoping to save him. Dong-Jin returns to Ryu's apartment and overhears a local radio program where the host reads a letter Ryu has sent about the painful death of his sister. Dong-Jin visits the radio station and sees a painting that Ryu has sent along with

1752-511: Is closer to a near-open central vowel ( [ɐ] ), though ⟨a⟩ is still used for tradition. Grammatical morphemes may change shape depending on the preceding sounds. Examples include -eun/-neun ( -은/-는 ) and -i/-ga ( -이/-가 ). Sometimes sounds may be inserted instead. Examples include -eul/-reul ( -을/-를 ), -euro/-ro ( -으로/-로 ), -eseo/-seo ( -에서/-서 ), -ideunji/-deunji ( -이든지/-든지 ) and -iya/-ya ( -이야/-야 ). Some verbs may also change shape morphophonemically. Korean

1825-427: Is described as a melodrama and will star Tang Wei and Park Hae-il . In October 2020, the title of the film was revealed as Decision to Leave , with the story described as a murder mystery romance. The film was set to begin shooting later that month. In April 2021, A24 optioned Viet Thanh Nguyen 's 2015 novel The Sympathizer for a TV adaptation, with Park Chan-wook directing. He was awarded Best Director at

1898-580: Is found, but after having been conned by the organ dealers, Ryu is unable to afford the operation. To raise money, Yeong-mi, Ryu's radical anarchist girlfriend, suggests kidnapping the daughter of the executive who fired Ryu. They observe the executive with company president Park Dong-jin arriving at the latter's home one day, where one of Dong-jin's former employees, Peng, attempts to commit harakiri in front of them. Ryu and Yeong-mi change their plan, deciding to kidnap Dong-jin's young daughter Yu-sun instead. Yu-sun stays with Ryu's sister, who believes that Ryu

1971-399: Is mainly reserved for specific circumstances such as newspapers, scholarly papers and disambiguation. Today Hanja is largely unused in everyday life but is still important for historical and linguistic studies. The Korean names for the language are based on the names for Korea used in both South Korea and North Korea. The English word "Korean" is derived from Goryeo , which is thought to be

2044-399: Is of faucalized consonants. They are produced with a partially constricted glottis and additional subglottal pressure in addition to tense vocal tract walls, laryngeal lowering, or other expansion of the larynx. /s/ is aspirated [sʰ] and becomes an alveolo-palatal [ɕʰ] before [j] or [i] for most speakers (but see North–South differences in the Korean language ). This occurs with

2117-581: Is the national language of both North Korea and South Korea . Beyond Korea, the language is recognized as a minority language in parts of China , namely Jilin , and specifically Yanbian Prefecture , and Changbai County . It is also spoken by Sakhalin Koreans in parts of Sakhalin , the Russian island just north of Japan, and by the Koryo-saram in parts of Central Asia . The language has

2190-747: Is well attested in Western Old Japanese and Northern Ryukyuan languages , in Eastern Old Japanese it only occurs in compounds, and it is only present in three dialects of the Southern Ryukyuan language group . Also, the doublet wo meaning "hemp" is attested in Western Old Japanese and Southern Ryukyuan languages. It is thus plausible to assume a borrowed term. (See Classification of the Japonic languages or Comparison of Japanese and Korean for further details on

2263-503: The San Francisco Chronicle called the film "a waste", referring to it as "so bloody, scatologically violent and consistently shocking, [that] it seems to have no larger purpose than itself – which is pretty grim." Manohla Dargis of The New York Times wrote that "it is a drag that the film never rises to the level of its director's obvious ability", stating that "the violence [in the film] carries no meaning beyond

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2336-496: The 2022 Cannes Film Festival for his work on Decision to Leave . In August 2024, Park began filming his adaption of The Ax , titled No Other Choice ( 어쩔수가없다 ). Park wrote the screenplay with previous collaborators Lee Kyoung-mi , Don McKellar & Lee Ja-hye. The film would also see Park reunite with actors Lee Byung-hun and Cha Seung-won . Park Chan-wook's films have gained notoriety for their cinematography and framing, black humor and often brutal subject matter. In

2409-810: The BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language , and Decision to Leave (2022), which won the Best Director award at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival . He directed the English-language miniseries The Little Drummer Girl (2018) and The Sympathizer (2024). Park Chan-wook was born 23 August 1963 in Seoul . Both of his parents were native Seoul residents who have lived in Seoul for five generations. His father, Park Don-seo,

2482-524: The Korean dialects , which are still largely mutually intelligible . The Chinese language , written with Chinese characters and read with Sino-Xenic pronunciations , was first introduced to Korea in the 1st century BC, and remained the medium of formal writing and government until the late 19th century. Korean scholars adapted Chinese characters (known in Korean as Hanja ) to write their own language, creating scripts known as idu , hyangchal , gugyeol , and gakpil. These systems were cumbersome, due to

2555-568: The Three Kingdoms of Korea (not the ancient confederacies in the southern Korean Peninsula), while " -eo " and " -mal " mean "language" and "speech", respectively. Korean is also simply referred to as guk-eo , literally "national language". This name is based on the same Han characters ( 國語 "nation" + "language") that are also used in Taiwan and Japan to refer to their respective national languages. In North Korea and China ,

2628-602: The iPhone . The film was co-directed with Park's younger brother, Park Chan-kyong, who had no prior directing experience. It was nominated for Berlinale Shorts during the 2011 Berlin Film Festival and won the Golden Bear for Best Short Film. In 2013, Park directed his first English-language film, Stoker . He said he learned to accelerate the production process and completed filming in 480 hours. Although Park does speak English, he used an interpreter on set. On why

2701-968: The 16th century for all Korean classes, including uneducated peasants and slaves. By the 17th century, the yangban had exchanged Hangul letters with slaves, which suggests a high literacy rate of Hangul during the Joseon era. In the context of growing Korean nationalism in the 19th century, the Gabo Reform of 1894 abolished the Confucian examinations and decreed that government documents would be issued in Hangul instead of literary Chinese. Some newspapers were published entirely in Hangul, but other publications used Korean mixed script , with Hanja for Sino-Korean vocabulary and Hangul for other elements. North Korea abolished Hanja in writing in 1949, but continues to teach them in schools. Their usage in South Korea

2774-518: The 1990s which he has since largely disowned, Park came to prominence with his acclaimed third directorial effort, Joint Security Area (2000), which became the highest-grossing film in South Korean history at the time and which Park himself prefers to be regarded as his directorial debut. Using his newfound creative freedom, he would go on to direct the films forming his unofficial The Vengeance Trilogy : Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002),

2847-601: The Palme d' Or and Queer Palm. At the 2016 Buil Film Awards , The Handmaiden won for Best New Actress (Tae-ri Kim), The Buil Readers' Jury Award and Best Art Direction (Seong-hie Ryu). The film holds a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes , and saw box office success in several countries, including South Korea, the United States and the United Kingdom. In October 2014, it was announced that Park had signed on to direct

2920-634: The Smithsonian's Museums of Asian Art. In 2014, Park directed a short film commissioned by luxury brand Ermenegildo Zegna , co-written by himself, Ayako Fujitani , Chung Chung-hoon and Michael Werwie, scored by Clint Mansell , and starring Jack Huston and Daniel Wu . It screened at the Rome International Film Festival and the Busan International Film Festival . In September 2014, it

2993-613: The art team for The Handmaiden . He voiced support for the Democratic Labor Party and was also a member of its successor, the New Progressive Party . He supported Justice Party candidate Sim Sang-jung in the 2017 South Korean presidential election . Korean language Korean ( South Korean : 한국어 , Hanguk-eo ; North Korean : 조선어 , Chosŏnŏ ) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. It

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3066-469: The basic ones. When first recorded in historical texts, Korean was only a spoken language . Since the turn of the 21st century, aspects of Korean culture have spread to other countries through globalization and cultural exports . As such, interest in Korean language acquisition (as a foreign language ) is also generated by longstanding alliances, military involvement, and diplomacy, such as between South Korea–United States and China–North Korea since

3139-455: The beginnings of words. /l/ becomes alveolar flap [ɾ] between vowels, and [l] or [ɭ] at the end of a syllable or next to another /l/ . A written syllable-final ' ㄹ ', when followed by a vowel or a glide ( i.e. , when the next character starts with ' ㅇ '), migrates to the next syllable and thus becomes [ɾ] . Traditionally, /l/ was disallowed at the beginning of a word. It disappeared before [j] , and otherwise became /n/ . However,

3212-579: The creator's ego." Daniel Eagan of Film Journal International called the film "glossy, morbid and childishly provocative", praising its visual style but criticizing director Park's "curdled vision". Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune wrote: "[It] is a rigorously planned film. It's also a disingenuous one, somber in tone, callow at its core." Derek Elley of Variety called the film "a gripping psychodrama, marbled with blackly ironic humor". The Guardian ' s Peter Bradshaw gave

3285-733: The end of World War II and the Korean War . Along with other languages such as Chinese and Arabic , Korean is ranked at the top difficulty level for English speakers by the United States Department of Defense . Modern Korean descends from Middle Korean , which in turn descends from Old Korean , which descends from the Proto-Koreanic language , which is generally suggested to have its linguistic homeland somewhere in Manchuria . Whitman (2012) suggests that

3358-456: The film a score of three out of five stars, calling it "deeply twisted and bizarre" but noting its "weirdly nightmarish conviction." Wesley Morris of The Boston Globe gave the film a positive review, calling it "a pristine-looking movie with astounding framing and a deftly handled sociopolitical bent", and concluding that, "despite the coldblooded killing and trail of the dead, Mr. Vengeance feels warmly suffused with life." In her review of

3431-412: The film for The A.V. Club , Tasha Robinson wrote that Park's "style is as bold and uncompromising as his story, which seems designed to show how revenge dehumanizes more than it satisfies, even for people who wholly deserve revenge. [...] It's a difficult balancing act, but Park crafts his layers carefully and masterfully." In January 2010, Warner Bros. acquired the rights for an American remake of

3504-621: The filmmaking company Moho Film, which participated in the production of Snowpiercer (2013) and The Handmaiden (2016). In 2006, Park was the member of official section jury at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival . In February 2007, Park won the Alfred Bauer Prize at the 57th Berlin International Film Festival . The award, named after the festival's founder and in praise of works that introduce new perspectives, went to Park for his film, I'm

3577-399: The first Korean dynasty known to Western nations. Korean people in the former USSR refer to themselves as Koryo-saram or Koryo-in (literally, " Koryo/Goryeo persons"), and call the language Koryo-mal' . Some older English sources also use the spelling "Corea" to refer to the nation, and its inflected form for the language, culture and people, "Korea" becoming more popular in

3650-456: The fundamental disparities between the Korean and Chinese languages, and accessible only to those educated in classical Chinese. Most of the population was illiterate. In the 15th century King Sejong the Great personally developed an alphabetic featural writing system , known today as Hangul , to promote literacy among the common people. Introduced in the document Hunminjeongeum , it

3723-521: The head judge at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival , he personally pushed for Park's Oldboy to be awarded the Palme d'Or (the honour eventually went to Michael Moore 's Fahrenheit 9/11 ). Oldboy garnered the Grand Prix , Cannes's second-highest honour. Tarantino also regards Park's Joint Security Area to be one of "the top twenty films made since 1992." Since 2004, Park has been an owner of

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3796-479: The inflow of western loanwords changed the trend, and now word-initial /l/ (mostly from English loanwords) are pronounced as a free variation of either [ɾ] or [l] . All obstruents (plosives, affricates, fricatives) at the end of a word are pronounced with no audible release , [p̚, t̚, k̚] . Plosive sounds /p, t, k/ become nasals [m, n, ŋ] before nasal sounds. Hangul spelling does not reflect these assimilatory pronunciation rules, but rather maintains

3869-408: The issue between Japanese and Korean, including Alexander Vovin, have argued that the indicated similarities are not due to any genetic relationship , but rather to a sprachbund effect and heavy borrowing, especially from Ancient Korean into Western Old Japanese . A good example might be Middle Korean sàm and Japanese asá , meaning " hemp ". This word seems to be a cognate, but although it

3942-639: The language is most often called Joseon-mal , or more formally, Joseon-o . This is taken from the North Korean name for Korea (Joseon), a name retained from the Joseon dynasty until the proclamation of the Korean Empire , which in turn was annexed by the Empire of Japan . In mainland China , following the establishment of diplomatic relations with South Korea in 1992, the term Cháoxiǎnyǔ or

4015-455: The late 1800s. In South Korea the Korean language is referred to by many names including hanguk-eo ("Korean language"), hanguk-mal ("Korean speech") and uri-mal ("our language"); " hanguk " is taken from the name of the Korean Empire ( 대한제국 ; 大韓帝國 ; Daehan Jeguk ). The " han " ( 韓 ) in Hanguk and Daehan Jeguk is derived from Samhan , in reference to

4088-468: The letter depicting his sister's burial and Yu-Sun's death. Dong-jin finds Ryu's sister's corpse by the riverbed , where he interacts with the disabled man who witnessed Ryu burying his sister, and finds the necklace Yu-Sun was wearing in her ransom picture. He begins to piece together the identities of Ryu and Yeong-mi. Ryu, armed with a baseball bat , locates the organ traffickers, murders them, and eats their kidneys to avenge his sister's death, receiving

4161-638: The proto-Koreans, already present in northern Korea, expanded into the southern part of the Korean Peninsula at around 300 BC and coexisted with the descendants of the Japonic Mumun cultivators (or assimilated them). Both had influence on each other and a later founder effect diminished the internal variety of both language families. Since the establishment of two independent governments, North–South differences have developed in standard Korean, including variations in pronunciation and vocabulary chosen. However, these minor differences can be found in any of

4234-428: The river, where she drowns. A disabled wanderer steals Yu-Sun's necklace. After Yu-sun's body is discovered by the authorities, a deeply mournful Dong-jin hires the detective on the case to find her kidnappers with bribe money from selling his company and house. The detective finds Ryu's sister note on Yu-Sun and searches their apartment but the place is abandoned and they cannot link the murder. Dong-Jin suspects that Peng

4307-500: The sci-fi body-swap film, Second Born . In January 2018, it was stated that Park would direct a TV miniseries adaptation of The Little Drummer Girl , a novel by John le Carré . It aired on BBC One in October of that year and stars Michael Shannon , Florence Pugh and Alexander Skarsgård . At the 24th Busan International Film Festival , Park said that he is writing scripts for feature films, for theater and for TV, including

4380-483: The script attracted his attention, Park said: "It wasn't a script that tried to explain everything and left many things as questions, so it leads the audience to find answers for themselves, and that's what I liked about the script... I like telling big stories through small, artificially created worlds". On 2 March 2013, Park appeared on a panel discussion about the film Stoker held at the Freer Gallery of Art in

4453-669: The short form Cháoyǔ has normally been used to refer to the standard language of North Korea and Yanbian , whereas Hánguóyǔ or the short form Hányǔ is used to refer to the standard language of South Korea. Korean is a member of the Koreanic family along with the Jeju language . Some linguists have included it in the Altaic family, but the core Altaic proposal itself has lost most of its prior support. The Khitan language has several vocabulary items similar to Korean that are not found in other Mongolian or Tungusic languages, suggesting

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4526-412: The store?' Response 예/네. ye/ne AFF Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance did not fare well commercially upon its initial release in South Korea, and has garnered mixed reviews. Despite this, it won several awards. It is the first installment in director Park's thematic Vengeance Trilogy , and is followed by Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005). Ryu

4599-441: The tense fricative and all the affricates as well. At the end of a syllable, /s/ changes to /t/ (example: beoseot ( 버섯 ) 'mushroom'). /h/ may become a bilabial [ɸ] before [o] or [u] , a palatal [ç] before [j] or [i] , a velar [x] before [ɯ] , a voiced [ɦ] between voiced sounds, and a [h] elsewhere. /p, t, t͡ɕ, k/ become voiced [b, d, d͡ʑ, ɡ] between voiced sounds. /m, n/ frequently denasalize at

4672-464: The underlying, partly historical morphology . Given this, it is sometimes hard to tell which actual phonemes are present in a certain word. The traditional prohibition of word-initial /ɾ/ became a morphological rule called "initial law" ( 두음법칙 ) in the pronunciation standards of South Korea, which pertains to Sino-Korean vocabulary. Such words retain their word-initial /ɾ/ in the pronunciation standards of North Korea. For example, ^NOTE ㅏ

4745-470: Was US$ 45,243 . On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes , the film has an approval rating of 54% based on 56 reviews, with an average rating of 6.16/10. The website's critical consensus reads: "Though Park directs with stylistic flair, this revenge thriller is more excessively gruesome than thrilling." On Metacritic , the film has a weighted average score of 56/100 based on 21 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". G. Allen Johnson of

4818-457: Was a great success both commercially and critically, even surpassing Kang Je-gyu's Shiri as the then most-watched film ever made in South Korea. This success made it possible for Park to make his next film more independently. Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance is the result of this creative freedom. Park's unofficially-titled Vengeance Trilogy consists of Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005). It

4891-654: Was a professor of architecture and former dean of Ajou University 's College of Engineering. Meanwhile, his grandfather, Park Seung-seo, was the former president of the Korean Bar Association. Park studied philosophy at Sogang University , where he joined the photography club and film club. Originally intending to be an art critic , Park, upon seeing Vertigo , resolved to become a filmmaker. After graduation, he wrote articles on film for journals and soon became an assistant director of films like Kkamdong , directed by Yu Yeong-jin, and Watercolor Painting in

4964-539: Was announced that Park would adapt Fingersmith , a historical crime novel by Sarah Waters. The film entered production in mid-2015 and ended on 31 October 2015. That film ended up becoming The Handmaiden and premiered in competition to rave reviews at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival , where Artistic Director Seong-hie Ryu won the Vulcain Prize for the Technical Arts, and the film was nominated for both

5037-585: Was called eonmun ('colloquial script') and quickly spread nationwide to increase literacy in Korea. The Korean alphabet was denounced by the yangban aristocracy, who looked down upon it too easy to learn. However, it gained widespread use among the common class and was widely used to print popular novels which were enjoyed by the common class. Since few people could understand official documents written in classical Chinese, Korean kings sometimes released public notices entirely written in Hangul as early as

5110-451: Was filming Memories of Murder when Park asked her to work on Oldboy . She has since worked with Park on I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK , Thirst , The Handmaiden , and Decision to Leave . Another notable collaborator of Park's is cinematographer Chung Chung-hoon . The pair first met during the production of Old Boy . The two have since worked on several other projects together, including Sympathy For Lady Vengeance , I'm

5183-973: Was involved in Park Chan-wook's debut film, The Moon Is... the Sun's Dream as editor. Since the film Joint Security Area (1998), Editor Kim Sang-bum has edited all of Park Chan-wook's works, except for Stoker (2013), up until The Handmaiden . For his editing work in Park's latest film Decision to Leave , Kim Sang-bum won José Salcedo Award for Best Editing in Valladolid International Film Festival . Park has also collaborated with music director Jo Yeong-wook since Joint Security Area (1998). The two have since worked on several other projects together, including Oldboy , Sympathy For Lady Vengeance , The Handmaiden , and Decision to Leave . Park has also worked closely with art director Ryu Seong-hie , who

5256-514: Was not originally intended to be a trilogy. Park won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival for Oldboy . The films concern the utter futility of vengeance and how it wreaks havoc on the lives of those involved. Lady Vengeance was distributed by Tartan Films for the United States theatrical release in April 2006. American director Quentin Tarantino is an avowed fan of Park. As

5329-467: Was raised in a devout Catholic family in Korea, and describes himself as an atheist. Park was raised in an environment that fostered culture and intellectual pursuits. His father, Park Don-seo, served as a professor of architecture and former dean of Ajou University's College of Engineering, while his grandfather, Park Seung-seo, held the esteemed position of former president of the Korean Bar Association. Additionally, Park's younger brother, Park Chan-kyong ,

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