The Apple TV+ drama 'Pachinko' won the Best Foreign Language Drama Award at the US Critics' Choice Awards.



The Critics Choice Association (CCA) held the 28th awards ceremony in Los Angeles (LA) on the 15th (local time) and selected 'Pachinko' as the winner of the Foreign Language Drama Award.



'Pachinko' is nominated together with 'Strange Lawyer Woo Young-woo', '1899' (Netflix), 'Prime Minister Birgit' (Netflix), 'Garcia!' (HBO Max), 'The Kingdom Exodus' (movie) ), 'Cleo' (Netflix), 'My Brilliant Friend' (HBO), 'Tehran' (Apple TV+), etc.



With this, 'Korean Drama' lifted the Critics' Choice Best Foreign Language Drama Award trophy for the second year in a row following last year's 'Squid Game'.



'Pachinko' is a drama based on the novel of the same name by Korean-American writer Lee Min-jin.



It is a work produced by Apple TV+ without going through a Korean production company.



Yoon Yeo-jeong, who won the Academy Award for the movie 'Minari', played the aged figure of her protagonist, Seon-ja, and new actor Kim Min-ha played the young Seon-ja,

Hallyu star Lee Min-ho appeared as the young Seon-ja's lover.



On this day, director Park Chan-wook's 'Decision to Break Up' challenged to win the Best Foreign Language Film Award, but unfortunately did not win the award.



'Decision to break up' is 'Bardo, a false chronicle mixed with a bit of truth' (Mexico), 'All Quiet on the Western Front' (Germany), 'Argentina, 1985' (Argentina), 'Close' (Belgium), 'RRR: Rise' It competed with 'Lore Revolt' (India).



The Best Foreign Language Film Award went to 'RRR: Rise Lower Revolt'.



This film depicts the story of Indian independence fighters resisting British colonial rule in the 1920s in a delightful way like a superhero movie.



'Decision to Break Up' failed to win the Critics' Choice Award, but it will challenge the Academy (Oscar), which will be held on March 12th.



The Academy will announce the final nominations on the 24th, and the International Film Awards category, in which 'Decision to Break Up' is listed as a preliminary nomination, is compressed into five films.



If he succeeds in winning an Academy Award, Park will be holding his first trophy in Hollywood.



Critics Choice is an event hosted by the Critics Choice Association (CCA), which is composed of 600 broadcast and film critics from the United States and Canada, and has been held every year since 1996.



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