kdrama1-8, Exercise 3: Kim Ki-duk

Model answer:

Kim Ki-duk (20 December 1960 to 11 December 2020) went to Paris to study fine arts in 1990 and spent two years as a street portrait painter, after five years in the South Korean marine corps. He made his directing debut with Crocodile (1996) on a low budget, and had his international breakthrough with The Isle. He won the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin for Samaritan Girl (2004), the Silver Lion for Best Director at Venice for 3-Iron (2004) and the Golden Lion at Venice for Pieta (2012); Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003) is in Roger Ebert's Great Movies. He died in Riga, Latvia, aged 59, which the article attributes to complications from COVID-19.

This course reports the accusations of harassment and rape made against him exactly as the article does, with its attributions and legal outcomes (a fine for assault in 2017, criminal complaints dropped in 2019, a civil ruling for the defendants on 28 October 2020), and makes no finding of its own, because the article reports accusations and does not state that they were proven. Naming the controversy is part of an honest account of his career.

Source: Wikipedia, Kim Ki-duk.