kdrama1-8, Exercise 2: Lee and Hong

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Lee Chang-dong began as a novelist (first novel Chonri, 1983) with no formal filmmaking training; he worked as screenwriter and assistant director on To the Starry Island (1993), wrote A Single Spark (1995), and directed Green Fish (1997). Prizes: Secret Sunshine (2007), Best Actress for Jeon Do-yeon at Cannes; Poetry (2010), Best Screenplay at Cannes; Oasis, a Silver Lion at Venice (dated 2002 and 2003 in the article). He was Minister of Culture and Tourism in 2003 and 2004.

Hong Sang-soo studied theatre at Chung-Ang University, then in the US; debut The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (1996). Method per the article: single-shot scenes often beginning and ending with a zoom, budgets averaging about $100,000, dialogue written from 4 a.m. on the day, often shooting while actors are intoxicated, characters who are often directors or actors. Prizes: Silver Bear for Best Director for The Woman Who Ran (Berlin, 2020), and others (Introduction, The Novelist's Film, A Traveler's Needs).

Sources: Wikipedia, Lee Chang-dong; Hong Sang-soo.