Kim Ji-soo joined The Korea Times in 2006, and worked on such desks as culture and politics and is currently a member of the Editorial Board. Previous workplaces include The Korea Herald and the Korea JoongAng Daily.
Foreign community brief
'Farewell My Concubine' to be screened again
An extended version of the 1993 film “Farewell My Concubine,” which won the Palme d'Or at the 46th Cannes Film Festival will be released in theaters on April 1, according to Yonhap News Agency.
The film, directed by the veteran Chinese filmmaker Chen Kaige, stars top Chinese stars as Fengyi Zhang, Gong Li and the late Leslie Cheung. Cheung was especially popular with Korean film fans when Chinese and Hong Kong films were all the rage in Korea in the early 1990s.
Int'l female film festival open to submissions
All participants regardless of age, gender and nationality are called upon to submit work for the Film Festival for Women's Rights 2020 or FIWOM 2020 through March 29. Everyone is welcome to apply with their films but submissions must have been created after January 2019.
Work dealing with women's rights, violence against women, shedding focus on the social structure that enables the infringement of these rights and finding solutions to these problems are some of the topics filmmakers can tackle.
This year's FIWOM will be held June 24 through June 28 in Seoul. For more information, visit www.fiwom.org.