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unusual facts about Kim Ki-duk


Etta Scollo

She composed film scores – for example I tuoi fiori for the film Bad Guy by Kim Ki-duk.


1992 Winter Olympics medal table

South Korea won the country's first Winter Olympic medal—a gold—when Kim Ki-hoon came first in the newly introduced Olympic sport of short track speed skating.

Cheongsong County

Jusan Pond, located in the county, was the site of filming for Kim Ki-duk's 2003 film Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring.

Duk Sung Son

Suh Chong Kang created Kuk Mu Kwan School, and other instructors started to hardly recognize Duk Sung Son as a school official.

I Love Lee Tae-ri

14-year-old Geum Eun-dong (Kim Ki-bum) is desperately in love with Lee Tae-ri (Park Ye-jin), a well-bred heiress who is seven years older than he is.

Jae Hee

In 2004, he was cast as the lead actor in Kim Ki-duk's 3-Iron, playing a silent young man who breaks into vacant houses and while living there for a few days, he cleans the house and repairs broken gadgets during his stay.

John Dau

Currently, Dau is the president of the John Dau Foundation which was founded in July 2007 to start and develop health facilities for most of the populations of Duk, Twic East and Bor South counties in the state of Jonglei in South Sudan.

In 1983, his village of Duk Payuel in Duk County, Jonglei was attacked by government troops involved in the Second Sudanese Civil War between the Muslim-controlled government in northern Sudan and the non-Muslims in Southern Sudan.

Kim Ki-nam

In 1974, he was appointed editor of the Party's theoretical magazine, Kulloja, and in 1976 he was promoted to editor-in-chief of Rodong Sinmun.

Kim Ki-taek

While many artists consider regular work, particularly the life of a salaryman as a hindrance to creativity, Korean poet Kim Gi-taek (Born in 1957 in Anyang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea) has successfully achieved a career as a poet while also working full time.

Lim Jae-Duk

Lim Jae-Duk (born 12 December 1982), known by the pseudonym of NesTea, is one of the most successful players of the real-time strategy game StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.

NesTea was one of the top ranked zerg players on the Korean ladder shortly after the launch of StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty.

Lith Payam

Lith Payam borders on Kongor Payam, Pibor County, Duk County, and the White Nile.

The Spring

His best-known role was spastic exchange student Long Duk Dong in the 1984 film Sixteen Candles.

Ubasute

The practice of ubasute is explored at length in Japanese director Keisuke Kinoshita's The Ballad of Narayama (1958), Korean director Kim Ki-young's Goryeojang (1963), and Shohei Imamura's The Ballad of Narayama, which won the Palme d'Or in 1983.


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