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SEOUL, Feb 13 — The woman who stepped up to make the final acceptance speech when Bong Joon-ho’s satire Parasite — about the gap between rich and poor — won the Oscar for Best Picture is herself a member of South Korea’s wealthiest family. Miky Lee, a heiress turned media mogul, is the...

Among those she praised in her Oscars speech were Korean filmgoers, who she said “never hesitated to give us straightforward opinion”, driving directors and creators to “keep pushing the envelopes”.

“It speaks to the parasitic relationship Korea as a whole has with chaebol conglomerates,” she told AFP. “The films pointing out the broken system are made within that system themselves.”is the culmination of a corporate push into Hollywood that Lee has spearheaded for years. Lee supervises CJ ENM, one of the South’s biggest media groups, which has operations in television, K-pop, film studios and multiplexes, subsidiaries in at least six countries, and a market capitalisation of 3.7 trillion won .

“She’s a true cinephile who’s watched so many films and managed to bring over that fanatic passion to the world of business,” the Hollywood Reporter quoted him as saying.

 

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