Director Park Chan-wook of "Man of Cannes" Appoints Korea's First Cannes Film Festival Jury Chairperson

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Director Park Chan-wook was appointed as the chairman of the jury at the 79th Cannes International Film Festival. He is the first Korean to do so.

On the 25th (local time), major foreign media, including the Associated Press and the AFP News Agency, reported in unison that director Park Chan-wook was appointed as the chairman of the jury at the 79th Cannes International Film Festival.

Director Park Chan-wook is the first Korean to head the jury at the Cannes Film Festival. In addition, he is the second Asian chairman of the judging committee after Hong Kong's director Wang Ji-wei (Wang Gawi) in 2006.

The Cannes Film Festival said, "Park Chan-wook's originality, visual control, and excellent sense of capturing the multi-layered inner world and conflict of characters with bizarre fate gave modern film history moments that will be truly memorable."

Director Park Chan-wook won the Grand Jury Prize for his 2004 film Old Boy. Since then, he has a deep relationship with Khan, winning the Jury Award for "Bat" (2009) and the Director Award for "Decision to Break Up" (2022).

The 79th Cannes Film Festival will open on May 12 and will be held in the southern French resort city of Cannes until May 23.

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