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Park Chan-wook
Park Chan-wook

Park Chan-wook is a renowned South Korean film director, born on August 23, 1963. His works are known for their unique narrative style and profound humanistic concerns, making him a representative figure of the 'South Korean New Wave' in cinema. more

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“Curiosity, like all other desires, produces pain as well as pleasure.”

“I am far from any intention to limit curiosity, or confine the labours of learning to arts of immediate and necessary use. It is only from the various essays of experimental industry, and the vague excursions of mind set upon discovery, that any advancement of knowledge can be expected; and though many must be disappointed in their labours, yet they are not to be charged with having spent their time in vain; their example contributed to inspire emulation, and their miscarriage taught others the way to success.”

“Those who have past much of their lives in this great city, look upon its opulence and its multitudes, its extent and variety, with cold indifference; but an inhabitant of the remoter parts of the kingdom is immediately distinguished by a kind of dissipated curiosity, a busy endeavour to divide his attention amongst a thousand objects, and a wild confusion of astonishment and alarm.”