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‘Moving’ & ’12:12: The Day’ Emerge As Big Winners At Korea’s Baeksang Arts Awards


'Moving' and '12:12: The Day' took home top prizes at Korea's Baeksang Arts Awards.

Made with a budget of around $18M, 12:12: The Day swept up the Grand Prize and Best Film awards, with Hwang Jung-min scoring a Best Actor win. Set in 1979 just after the assassination of Korean President Park Chung-hee, the film follows the power struggle among various military factions during a violent coup. Jason Yu took home the Best Screenplay prize for black comedy thriller Sleep, which first premiered in the Critics’ Week section of the Cannes Film Festival last year.

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