Hong Sang-soo won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Bong Joon-ho, who won the Cannes Film Festival and the American Academy Awards, is another cultural sergeant.

Park Yang-woo, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said on the 2nd, "Hong Sang-soo's film achievement is an internationally recognized achievement and a significant achievement that shows the strength of the entire Korean film festival."

Attention will be given to the Ministry of Culture and Sports. Earlier this year, the Ministry of Culture and Culture awarded Bong Joon-ho a Silver Medal of Honor for the Golden Palm Award at the Cannes Film Festival last year, and an Okwan Culture Medal for Song Kang-ho. If the same criteria are applied, director Hong Sang-soo may also be eligible for the Silver Medal.

The medal of culture is divided into five grades: the Medal of Gold Medal, the Order of Silver Medal, the Order of Culture of the Okwan, the Order of Cultural Heritage, and the Order of Culture.
In 2017, Kim Min-hee won the Best Actress Award at the Berlin International Film Festival for her film `` Solo at Night ''. It was the second time that a Korean actress won a Best Actress at the world's three film festivals after Jeon Do-yeon, who won a Best Actress at the Cannes Film Festival. It was the first actress to win the Berlin International Film Festival.

The Ministry of Culture, however, only sent celebrations and did not award medals. If they applied the same standards as Jeon, Jeon-yeon, they should have received the Okwan Cultural Medal.

The Ministry of Culture did not give Kim Min-hee a medal because of restrictions on recommendation. There is a restriction on recommendation to those who cause social objections due to immoral acts, media reports, litigations or complaints, etc., which are judged to be inappropriate.

Kim Min Hee attended a press conference at the beach by night with director Hong Sang-soo and caused a social wave with the declaration that he was "love each other." Hong Sang-soo has a family, and Kim Min-hee is single.

After Hong Sang-soo's award, attention is paid to whether the Ministry of Literature will apply restrictions or make a different choice than Kim Min-hee.

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(SBS funE Kim Ji-hye)