Korean cinema on the road to globalization: tracking global/local dynamics, or why Im Kwon-Taek is not Ang Lee

... We have to ask why, still, in such a global-ized framework, have these ... re-mained so trenchantly localist, so haunted by the national imaginary of trauma and division ... a matter of poor distribution; clumsy English translation; excess melo-drama; narrative simplicity; unconscious ...