About the Author
Dennis P. Halpin
Dennis P. Halpin, a former Foreign Service Officer and senior Congressional staff, is a consultant on Asian issues.
Views expressed in Opinion articles are exclusively the authors’ own and do not represent those of NK News.
The recent triumph of the South Korean film “Parasite” -- which won the award for Best Picture at the recent Academy Awards -- was an unprecedented event. It shattered a glass ceiling that even the formidable Italian film industry, in its golden age of director Federico Fellini and actress Sophia Loren, had been unable to do.