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Conquering Chunhyang
Director Im Kwon Taek didn’t seem destined for a career in the film industry. He never saw movies as a child — his small hometown in Korea didn’t even have a theater — and he spent most of his teenage years as a laborer, dabbling briefly in a failed business scheme to recycle U.S. Army boots into shoes. Even when Im was hired by action film director Chung Chang-Wha in 1956 as a member of his production crew, he was more errand boy than film apprentice, accepting room and board in lieu of a salary. “It was just manual labor,” he remembers. “I didn’t do any of the film work.” |
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