SEOUL (Reuters) - Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho said on Thursday he was proud of how his fellow South Koreans had overcome the fallout from impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3.

Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho said on Thursday (February 20) he was proud of how his fellow South Koreans had overcome the fallout from impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol's short-lived imposition of martial law on December 3.

Ahead of Mickey 17‘s theatrical release on March 7, Oscar-winning director Bong Joon Ho has finally shared some new details about his next action horror movie, which has been developing for nearly 25 years.

We mean in the context of Bong Joon Ho’s latest, Mickey 17. In the film, Robert Pattinson plays Mickey, a human “expendable” who is brought back to life, over and over, after he dies. How does that work?

S.Korean director Bong Joon-ho This photo, provided by Warner Bros. Korea on Feb. 21, 2025, shows Bong Joon-ho, the director of the new movie "Mickey 17." The movie will be released in South Korea on Feb.

Parasite director Bong Joon-ho returns to genre with Mickey 17, a chaotic, darkly comic space opera starring Robert Pattinson as a disposable clone caught in a deadly cycle of rebirth on an unforgiving ice world.