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Busan Film Festival To Present Special Program Remembering Late ‘Parasite’ Actor Lee Sun-Kyun
Busan Film Festival has announced a Special Program in Focus, ‘In Memory of Lee Sun-kyun’, honoring the Korean actor who died in December 2023.
The program will screen six of the actor’s works including Parasite, four other films and an episode of TV series My Mister, as well as feature Special Talk events. Lee died in December 2023 in an apparent suicide at the age of 48, after which industry figures, including Parasite director Bong Joon Ho, called for an investigation into the circumstances surrounding his death. Also selected for the program is Lee’s posthumous film, Land Of Happiness, directed by Choo Chang-min, which was recently released in Korea and in which he plays a soldier embroiled in a presidential assassination.
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