Korean Cinema Quiz: Bong Joon-ho, Park Chan-wook and More
Korean cinema trivia — Parasite Oscars, Oldboy, Squid Game, Crash Landing on You. Test your knowledge of Korean directors and global K-content hits.
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Who directed the 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite?
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Q1. Who directed the 2019 Oscar-winning film Parasite?
- Park Chan-wook
- Bong Joon-ho
- Kim Ki-duk
- Lee Chang-dong
Bong Joon-ho wrote and directed Parasite. At the 92nd Academy Awards in February 2020, it became the first non-English-language film to win Best Picture, also winning Best Director and Best International Feature.Q2. Park Chan-wook directed which 2003 revenge thriller?
- Oldboy
- The Handmaiden
- Decision to Leave
- Stoker
Oldboy is the second film in Park Chan-wook's Vengeance Trilogy. It won the Grand Prix at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where Quentin Tarantino headed the jury.Q3. How many episodes was the original Squid Game season 1?
- 6
- 8
- 9
- 10
Squid Game season 1 had 9 episodes when it dropped on Netflix on September 17, 2021. It became the most-watched series in Netflix history with over 1.65 billion hours viewed in the first 28 days.Q4. What does the number on the cookie shapes in Squid Game's Dalgona challenge represent?
- Number of players left
- Player number
- Game difficulty
- Random shapes
In Squid Game's episode 3, players carved out a sugar honeycomb shape (umbrella, star, circle or triangle) — the shape they chose determined difficulty. The umbrella was the hardest.Q5. Crash Landing on You stars which two leads, who later married?
- Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin
- Lee Min-ho and Park Shin-hye
- Park Seo-joon and Park Min-young
- Gong Yoo and Jung Yu-mi
Hyun Bin and Son Ye-jin starred in Crash Landing on You (2019-2020) as a North Korean officer and a South Korean heiress. They married in real life on March 31, 2022.Q6. Memories of Murder (2003) was based on which real Korean case?
- Hwaseong serial murders
- Sewol ferry disaster
- Itaewon stampede
- Daegu subway fire
Memories of Murder, directed by Bong Joon-ho, dramatized the Hwaseong serial murders that occurred between 1986 and 1991. The real killer Lee Choon-jae was finally identified in 2019, sixteen years after the film.Q7. Which Korean drama features a goblin who needs a human bride to end his immortality?
- My Love from the Star
- Goblin (Guardian)
- Descendants of the Sun
- Vincenzo
Goblin: The Lonely and Great God aired on tvN from December 2016 to January 2017. Starring Gong Yoo and Kim Go-eun, it was one of the highest-rated dramas in Korean cable TV history.Q8. Park Chan-wook's 2016 film The Handmaiden was based on a novel by which author?
- Stephen King
- Sarah Waters
- Margaret Atwood
- Donna Tartt
The Handmaiden is based on the 2002 novel Fingersmith by Welsh author Sarah Waters. Park Chan-wook moved the setting from Victorian England to Japanese-occupied Korea in the 1930s.Q9. Who played the protagonist Seong Gi-hun in Squid Game?
- Park Hae-soo
- Lee Jung-jae
- Wi Ha-joon
- Gong Yoo
Lee Jung-jae plays Seong Gi-hun (Player 456). For the role he won Best Actor at the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards in 2022, the first Asian to win in that category.Q10. Bong Joon-ho's English-language sci-fi film Snowpiercer (2013) was based on what?
- A video game
- A French graphic novel
- A Korean novel
- An original screenplay
Snowpiercer is based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige (1982) by Jacques Lob and Jean-Marc Rochette. Chris Evans starred as the leader of the train's tail-section revolt.
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