Darcy Paquet
Darcy Paquet is an American film critic, university lecturer, author and actor. In 2010, Paquet was awarded the Korea Film Reporters Association Award at the 15th Busan International Film Festival for his contributions in introducing Korean cinema to the world. Paquet was also the founder and organiser of Wildflower Film Awards Korea, which presents the Wildflower Film Awards.
Education
Paquet, a Massachusetts native, majored in Russian at Carleton College in Minnesota and earned a master's in applied linguistics at Indiana University.Career
After making many Korean friends in graduate school, Paquet went to Seoul in 1997 to teach English at Korea University and planned to stay briefly before going to the Czech Republic.Since 1998, Paquet has served as a special adviser and English-language editor for the Korean Film Council.
In 1999, he created the website Koreanfilm.org to introduce Korean films. From 2003 to 2011, he also wrote a monthly column for the Korean film weekly Cine21.
In 2009, Paquet published a book, New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves, about the changes in Korean cinema from the 1980s to 2000s.
At the 15th Busan International Film Festival in 2010, Paquet received the Korea Film Reporters Association Award for his contributions to promoting Korean cinema to the world.
Paquet has been the English subtitle translator for numerous Korean films, some examples include: Barking Dogs Never Bite by Bong Joon-hoMemories of Murder by Bong Joon-hoThe Host by Bong Joon-hoMother by Bong Joon-hoOde to My Father by Yoon Je-kyoon
- Assassination by Choi Dong-hoonThe Handmaiden by Park Chan-wookThe Age of Shadows by Kim Jee-woonThe Day After by Hong Sang-soo
- Parasite by Bong Joon-hoDecision to Leave by Park Chan-wookNext Sohee by Jung Ju-ri
- Broker by Hirokazu Kore-edaThe Dream Songs by Cho Hyun-chul
- Hopeless by Kim Chang-hoonCobweb by Kim Jee-woonConcrete Utopia by Um Tae-hwa