'Love Untangled' Director Calls Out Korean Indie Gap — SkimNews
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- Namkoong Sun, director of Netflix Korean romance 'Love Untangled,' said the platform's system let her focus entirely on the film once production began, though she carried the weight of that freedom; she joined the project already in adaptation and the film reached No. 1 in many countries while staying in the Netflix global top 10 for more than six weeks.
Why it matters: Namkoong's two prior indie features hit theaters during the pandemic and the day martial law was declared in Korea, illustrating the distribution fragility she described — Korean indie filmmakers can make films but lack the infrastructure to reliably show them, a gap the panel framed as the field's core challenge alongside capital.
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