Word: chung
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...Staff writer Juliet J. Chung can be reached at jchung@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Juliet Chung can be reached at jchung@fas.harvard.edu...
...Korean cinema enjoyed a brief golden age in the 1960s, when the industry churned out loads of mostly light fare to entertain a nation struggling to pull itself out of poverty. But strongman Park Chung Hee snuffed it out a decade later with tight censorship and draconian controls on production houses. Films were vapid and forgettable: even mild criticism of the government was verboten. So was anything racy: viewers didn't catch even the silhouette of a breast until 1985. "Everything was forbidden," recalls director Im Kwon Taek, who, with more than 100 movies under his belt, is considered...
...Staff Writer Juliet J. Chung can be reached at jchung@fas.harvard.edu...
...Staff writer Juliet J. Chung can be reached at jchung@fas.harvard.edu...