{"id":14132,"date":"2020-02-10T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2020-02-10T06:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/10\/south-korea-basks-in-parasites-historic-oscars-win"},"modified":"2020-02-10T22:06:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-10T13:06:31","slug":"south-korea-basks-in-parasites-historic-oscars-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=14132","title":{"rendered":"South Korea basks in Parasite&#8217;s historic Oscars win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TV networks broke into their regular programming and one presenter had to apologise to viewers for screaming when the winner was announced<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/bong-joon-ho\">Bong Joon-ho<\/a>\u2019s Parasite is a damning commentary on South Korea\u2019s gaping wealth gap, but on Monday the country came together to celebrate the film\u2019s historic showing at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/oscars-2020\">Oscars<\/a>, culminating in an Academy Award for best picture.<\/p>\n<p>The film also won Oscars for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2020\/feb\/10\/bong-joon-ho-wins-the-best-director-oscar-for-parasite\">best director<\/a>, best screenplay and best international feature, adding to its successes at the Cannes Film Festival last year and the Baftas earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/feb\/10\/south-korea-basks-in-parasites-historic-oscars-win\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TV networks broke into their regular programming and one presenter had to apologise to viewers for screaming when the winner was announcedBong Joon-ho\u2019s Parasite is a damning commentary on South Korea\u2019s gaping wealth gap, but on Monday the country came&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":966,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,69,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-film","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/966"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14157,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions\/14157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}