Powerful Korean artists of 2020 2
BTS group
Time magazine (USA) voted BTS as `Entertainment Star of 2020`, continuing the titles and series of awards the band earned during the year.
BTS reached many career milestones this year.
According to Naver, Korean audiences agree that BTS is at the top of Forbes Korea’s list of powerful figures.
With foreign awards, BTS made an impression as the first K-pop group to be nominated for the 2021 Grammy. Previously, at the end of August, they were the first Asian group to win the Billboard Hot 100 championship. BTS also dominated
BTS performed hits at MAMA 2020
BTS performed their hit `Dynamite` at MAMA 2020 on December 6.
Blackpink group
Pann believes that despite being unlucky with major awards because of their strong rival BTS, Blackpink deserves to be a powerful star thanks to breaking a series of records in the global music industry.
Blackpink set a Guinness record
Blackpink performed `How you like that`.
How you like that is the fastest MV to reach 50 million views globally in 11 hours, and the fastest to reach 100 million views in 32 hours and 22 minutes.
Blackpink also had success when collaborating with Selena Gomez in the MV Ice Cream.
Directed by Bong Joon Ho
On September 22, Bong Joon Ho appeared for the first time on Time’s `100 most influential people` list.
According to Naver, experts and audiences call Bong `the greatest Korean director of all time` or `a once-in-a-hundred-year monster`.
Bong Joon Ho holds the award trophy at the Oscars.
More than 200 times Parasite has been honored at awards season.
Previously, Bong Joon Ho and Parasite helped Korean cinema win the Palme d’Or for the first time – the highest award at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival (France).
Parasite (Parasite)
Trailer `Parasite`.
Actor Song Kang Ho
On November 25, the New York Times ranked Song Kang Ho – the male lead of the blockbuster Parasite – sixth on the list of `The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century`.
The veteran star was born in 1967 and is known as the `Box Office Monster` thanks to the blockbusters Han River Monster, Memoirs of a Murderer, The Lawyer, Frozen Train, Palmistry, Taxi Driver…
At Cannes 2019, director Bong Joon Ho called Song Kang Ho a `great actor`.
Song Kang Ho has never acted in a television series and devotes all his enthusiasm to cinema.
Hancinema commented that 10 pages cannot cover Song Kang Ho’s illustrious career.
Trailer `Han River Monster`
Song Kang Ho in the trailer `Han River Monster` – Bong Joon Ho’s blockbuster is said to have changed Korean cinema.
Actress Kim Min Hee
The New York Times ranked Kim Min Hee (born 1982) 16th on the list of `25 excellent actors of the 21st century`.
Despite making a splash in the international market, the actress was boycotted by audiences at home because of her affair with Hong Sang Soo (left), a married director who is 22 years older than her.
Previously, thanks to her profound acting in On the Beach at Night Alone, Min Hee became the first Korean beauty to win the Silver Bear `Best Actress` award at the Berlin Film Festival in 2017. In 2018, she
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