Park Seon-kyuk, who played Kim Seung-hyun’s wife on the hit South Korean drama Kim Seo, is the latest copywriter to be honored with the Park Seong-kyun award.
The Park Seok, a title chosen by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), will be presented on February 22, 2018 at the annual Academy Awards.
Park Seung, who has also written for Seo Yoon-jin, Kim Seong and Kim Seom-soo, said in a statement: “As a writer, I think it’s really important to think about what you’re doing when you’re in the booth, and I think that’s something that I’m really good at.
I think there’s something really fun in making people happy, and that’s why I’m grateful that I’ve had such a good life and been able to work on these characters, so that I could have a happy life with them.”
Park Seol-hyeon, the president of the Academy, said of the Park family: “The Park family is a special family of writers and producers.
It is a rare honor for an award-winning actress to receive the Park seo-kyu award, but we hope this award reflects that special feeling.
The award is given to the best copywriter for a South Korean comedy film, drama or drama series, and it’s a rare one for an actress to be chosen.”
Park, who won a Baek Kwang-wook Award in 2011 for the film South Korea’s Best Girl, was born in Seoul in 1984 and studied acting in Germany and New York City before returning to Korea in 2010.
In 2013, she made her debut with South Korean soap opera My Wife, which received rave reviews at the time.
Park began writing professionally in 2011.
In 2016, she was named one of Variety’s Top 100 Female Writers for the year.
Park also wrote the screenplay for the TV series Seoul Girls, and produced the South Korean version of Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, which won the 2017 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Park was nominated for the 2016 Best Actress award for the movie Beauty and The Beast.
Park has also starred in South Korean dramas including Park Seoyoung, South Korean-language drama SBS’ The People and Park Hae-young, the South Korea-produced drama The King of the Hill, as well as the South Park spinoff, The Stick.
Park is currently filming a South Park series that is set to premiere in 2019.
She has also directed and produced Korean films such as The King and the Queen, which earned a BAFTA nomination for Best British Comedy Film.
Park’s husband, Lee Joon-hoon, is a Korean-American who studied at the University of California-Berkeley and then went on to work for the entertainment industry.
Park recently completed her third film as a writer-producer, The King, and she has a number of other film projects in the works, including a TV movie based on the Korean-English novel The Princess and the Frog.
Park previously co-wrote, produced and starred in the South Koreans’ hit drama South Park.
Park made her stage debut in the drama My Wife at the age of 12.
The film was based on a short story written by Lee Byung-won and produced by the South-Korean company Kinema K.A. Park.
Source: Entertainment Weekly
