Lee Gyu-lee is a business writer at The Korea Times, focusing primarily on IT & telecommunications, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy and KOTRA. Prior to this, she has covered a wide range of cultural news, from film, television and K-pop to lifestyle and fashion.
Cannes Film Festival blunder: Wrong photo used in name mix-up
Actress Jang Hye-jin, left, and Olympic medalist Chang Hye-jin. Capture from twitter, photo from Hankook Ilbo
By Lee Gyu-lee
By Lee Gyu-lee
The Cannes Film Festival has confused actress Jang Hye-jin with an Olympic medalist in South Korea's national archery team who has the same name.
As a result, the athlete's photo was printed on the festival's Photocall
on Tuesday, instead of the dazzling actress.
Actress Jang is visiting Cannes to promote the tragicomedy “Parasite,” which was invited to the festival for the main competition. She plays the wife in an unemployed and poor family.
The movie's distributor CJ ENM discovered the error in Photocall and asked the organizer to change the photo. How the wrong image was used is unknown.
“Parasite,” directed by Bong Joon-ho, premiered at the Grand Theatre Lumiere in Cannes on Tuesday night. The director and cast ― Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Jang Hye-jin, Park So-dam, Choi Woo-sik and Lee Jung-eun ― received an eight-minute ovation from the audience after the film was shown.
The movie will hit domestic theaters on May 30.