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The Evergreen Vengeance of Lee Woo-jin in ‘Oldboy’ 

The Evergreen Vengeance of Lee Woo-jin in ‘Oldboy’ 

With many discovering Park Chan-wook’s seminal film, Oldboy (2003), in NEON’s new 4K restoration, there’s no better time to try to understand why it has resonated for the past two decades. The…

Go Ah-sung as Park Hyun-seo in Bong Joon-ho's 'The Host' (2006)

Neocolonial Anxieties in Bong Joon-ho’s ‘The Host’ (2006)

Neocolonial Anxieties in Bong Joon-ho’s ‘The Host’ (2006): It is perhaps a stretch to think that Bong Joon-ho was trying to create a colonizer/native binary when making ‘The Host.’ The indictment of…