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“Plan to buy a mansion in a tourist town in Latvia and acquire a green card”
Director Kim, the only Korean director to win the top award at the top three film festivals in the world.
“Exit after losing the lawsuit for sexual assault on an actress”
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Film director Ki-deok Kim has been confirmed to have died in Latvia from Corona 19 infection. Director Kim is known to have entered Latvia in the middle of last month. Reporter Chae Moon-seok in the press. The Russian news agency TASS reported, citing local media, that director Ki-deok Kim died in a Latvian hospital in the early hours of the 11th local time due to the worsening of Corona 19. Director Kim arrived in Latvia on the 20th of last month, but it is said that no contact has been established since the 5th of this month. He was recently admitted to the hospital due to corona symptoms and is known to have died after two days of hospitalization. Local media reported that Kim planned to buy a mansion in Jurmala, a resort town in northern Latvia, and obtain permanent residence in Latvia. Director Kim was particularly recognized in Russia, for which last year he was appointed chairman of the jury of the Moscow Film Festival. Director Kim Ki-duk, turning 60 this year, is the only Korean director to win the top award at the world’s top three film festivals, including Cannes, Venice and Berlin. In 2004, he received a Remarkable Look Award at the Berlin Film Festival for ‘Samaria’ and the Silver Lion Award from the Venice Film Festival for ‘Empty House’ in the same year and ‘Arirang’ in 2011 at the Festival Cannes Film Festival. Then in 2012, for the first time as a Korean director, he received the Golden Lion for ‘Pieta’ at the Venice Film Festival. However, in 2017, he was accused of being accused of sexual violence, a perpetrator of Me Too, and was involved in a lawsuit and filed a lawsuit against the actress that revealed that she had been sexually assaulted and the media that reported it and lost last month. The Foreign Ministry said it had confirmed the death through the embassy and said it was providing consular assistance to support funeral procedures and notifying national survivors of the progress of local action. I’m Moonseok Chae from YTN.
