[2023 BIFF] Steven Yeun “I take comfort in the revival of Korean content”

Korean-American actor Steven Yeun expressed his happiness at the revival of Korean content.

On the afternoon of the 6th, a press conference for the 28th Busan International Film Festival ‘Korean American Special Exhibition: Korean Diaspora’ was held at the KNN Theater in Busan. Director Lee Isaac Chung, director Justin Jeon, and actors John Cho and Steven Yeun attended.

Steven Yeun said, “It’s only been two days since I came to Korea. What I have felt so far is that I am receiving some kind of welcome, but it feels like it is connected to my heart, not as a separate thing. It’s not unfamiliar at all and I feel like I’m at home. It feels like all of us living in a global reality are connected together. “It feels natural and I am grateful for the warm welcome.”

He continued, “It is an honor to be invited to the Korean Diaspora. What I’ve been feeling these days is that it’s good to understand and sympathize with each other, interact across cultures, exchange information, and share stories. Of course, I thought that we could acknowledge our differences, empathize with each other, and come together. “I felt that it was special that we recognized each other’s differences, recognized our distance, everyone could make their own claims, understood each other’s situations, and now that we could empathize with each other, it could give a different result,” he confessed.

He also said, “The revival of Korean content is of course very good, and as a person living in the diaspora, it is comforting. I watched ‘Physical 100′ on Netflix. Even though it was in a different place, it was very similar and I empathized with it. It felt like Western people were appealing. It felt like we were redefining how we could show ourselves. We hope that Korean people feel the same way about our work. “I hope they feel comforted and connected to each other,” he added.

‘Korean American Special Exhibition: Korean Diaspora’ was designed to provide an opportunity to look in depth at the world of work by Korean-American filmmakers active in Hollywood and to provide an opportunity to reexamine the position of the American film industry.

[Busan = Reporter Yang So-young, Star Today]