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Kim Ki-duk (Kim Gidok), an award-winning Korean film director who died at the age of 59. His death was caused by complications from the coronavirus, Latvian state media reported.
Kim Ki-duk arrived in Latvia on November 20, 2020 to buy a house in Jūrmala. His acquaintances began to worry about the director when he failed to appear at several disputed meetings. That’s when they started searching hospitals, but they didn’t get an official answer from anywhere.
Finally, the South Korean Foreign Ministry reported that a 59-year-old Korean had died in Latvia, but his name had not been released. Finally, the news of the director’s death was confirmed by the Korean embassy.
The Korean film director has won awards at various international festivals: she won the Silver Bear Award for her Merciful Girl at the Berlinale, in 2012 she took home the Golden Lion Award in Venice with Pieta. Kim Ki-duk was the only South Korean director to return home with an award at three of the biggest festivals in Europe.
He also nominated South Korea for an Oscar for his film Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring, but ultimately fell short of the nomination.
Kim Ki-duk died on December 11, 2020, at the age of 59, in a hospital in Riga.
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