{"id":146192,"date":"2025-11-21T23:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/146192\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T23:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T23:55:07","slug":"park-chan-wook-maggie-kang-lee-byung-hun-to-receive-kalh-honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/146192\/","title":{"rendered":"Park Chan-wook, Maggie Kang & Lee Byung Hun To Receive KALH Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tPark Chan-wook<\/a> (No Other Choice, Oldboy), Maggie Kang<\/a> (KPop Demon Hunters), and Lee Byung Hun<\/a> (Squid Games, No Other Choice) will be honored by the Korean American Leaders in Hollywood at its inaugural KALH Honors celebration in Los Angeles on December 7. <\/p>\n

\n\tCreated in 2020, KALH brings together a cross-section of leaders from film, television, music and philanthropy to celebrate Korean excellence in global cinema. The group is a creative coalition for those who lead, create and transform culture from within the industry.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cFrom the exuberant energy and style of KPop Demon Hunters, to the heartbreaking duality of the desperate everyman Man-su in No Other Choice, to the combustive iconography of Oldboy, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, The Handmaiden and Decision to Leave, Maggie Kang, Lee Byung Hun and Park Chan-wook illuminate the power of art without limits and demonstrate the breadth, diversity and richness of Korean storytelling,\u201d shared Kymber Lim, Founder and Executive Director of KALH. \u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more thrilled to recognize each of these phenomenal filmmakers with our inaugural KALH Honors award.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tKALH celebrates Director Park with its Visionary Filmmaker honor, for being \u201cone of cinema\u2019s great auteurs,\u201d who has \u201cwritten and directed some of the most acclaimed and influential films in contemporary cinema.\u201d KALH touts his work, which spans three decades, for \u201celevating Korean cinema to global prominence and inspiring a generation of artists and filmmakers from across the globe.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tHis most recent feature, Neon\u2019s No Other Choice, won the International Audience Award at this year\u2019s Toronto International Film Festival and the International Audience Award and International Auteur Award for Park at the 2025 SCAD Savannah Film Festival.\u00a0He was also awarded Best Film Not in the English Language at the 71st BAFTA Film Awards for The Handmaiden, the Jury Prize at the 62nd Cannes Festival for Thirst, and the Grand Prix for Oldboy at the 57th Cannes Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tKALH\u2019s Distinguished Actor honor will be presented to Lee, who is coming off back-to-back hits, Netflix\u2019s Squid Games, and Director Park\u2019s No Other Choice. For his role in the Neon film, he received a Gotham nomination for Outstanding Lead Performance. He is also the recent recipient of the Toronto International Film Festival Special Tribute Award as well as the Artist of Distinction Award at the Newport Beach Film Festival.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tFor his performance in\u00a0Inside Men, he\u00a0won a total of 14 awards, including the Best Actor Prize from the Baeksang Art Awards, Blue Dragon Awards, and Grand Bell Awards. Lee was the first Korean actor to be given the Asian Film Excellence Award at their 15th annual celebration, the first Korean actor to present an Oscar at the Academy Awards, and the first Korean actor to imprint his hand and foot in the forecourt of Grauman\u2019s Chinese Theatre.<\/p>\n

\n\tKang is a Korean-Canadian filmmaker who co-directed and co-wrote the global phenomenon, Netflix\u2019s KPop Demon Hunters. For her work on the hit animated film, she will receive the group\u2019s Pioneer Award. Her additional credits include the features The Lego Ninjago Movie, Trolls, Rio 2, and Puss in Boots, to name a few. Up next, Kang is expected to return to write the recently announced Kpop Demon Hunters sequel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Park Chan-wook (No Other Choice, Oldboy), Maggie Kang (KPop Demon Hunters), and Lee Byung Hun (Squid Games, No…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[146,85,46,21456,24079,5116],"class_list":{"0":"post-146192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-lee-byung-hun","12":"tag-maggie-kang","13":"tag-park-chan-wook"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}