Portal:South Korea/Did you know/3

• ...that in 1999, Song Il-gon became the first Korean filmmaker to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival?
• ...that with little prior experience, South Korean actress Kim Ok-bin was given a leading role in her first film, Voice, and was nominated for "Best New Actress" at the Blue Dragon Film Awards?
• ... that Korean writer Park Kyung-ni spent 25 years writing the 16-volume epic novel Land, which has been included in the UNESCO Collection of Representative Works?

Source

1. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/January#1 January 2008, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
2. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/January#30 January 2008, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.
3. Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/July#13 July 2008, Numbered archive of Main Page appearance.