Success to be is being innovative and proficient in something you enjoy doing, and to be able to overcome problems and challenges in original ways. Success is embodied by the ability to overcome a challenge by strategizing and using a mastery of your skills while simultaneously not exploiting resources and others around them. Bong Joon-Ho is successful because he has created an interesting story out of common tropes and ideas. He created something original despite the ease of recycling material between creators. Everything he creates has a message displayed in an unexpected and interesting visual and emotional presentation.

Skills for Success

1.) Creative originality

Bong Joon-Ho explains that he must remain true to himself, because he doesn’t know for sure what the public wants to see, so he creates a story for himself to enjoy.

2.) Holistic understanding and study

Bong Joon-Ho studied sociology and spent a large amount of his time in clubs in college. He has worked with many different nationalities and directors for movies, creating a wide variety and resources to build his stories on.

3.) Communication skills

Bong Joon-Ho puts most of his effort into collaboration and communicating with his peers and staff. He values the thoughts and opinions of his colleagues and relies heavily on the people around him to give him ideas and criticism.

Challenges Overcome

Bong Joon-Ho struggled with the challenge of finding success in South Korea, a “country with an oppressed and obscure film community”(insider). Through this, he spent lots of his time meeting people and communicating to find a large resource of people to work with. Through this, he found people that supported him and he could support himself. With the network he built in this obscure community they created connections internationally, learning more and more and strengthening their own local system further. Bong Joon-Ho has been one of the first Oscar-winning non-English film winners with the film parasite, opening the door for all the people who believed they couldn’t make it where they live with the resources they have.  

Significant Work

Parasite was a masterpiece from South Korea, a culmination of everything Bong learned, winning an Oscar for best picture, best director, best original screenplay, International feature film.

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