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Academy invites five Korean filmmakers, actors to membership for the first time
June 29, 2015
![Director Bong Joon-ho arrives at the Los Angeles Film Festival Opening Night Gala - "Snowpiercer" on Wednesday, June 11, 2014 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Yonhap)](http://www.koreatimesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Bong-Joon-ho-681x1024.jpg)
Director Bong Joon-ho arrives at the Los Angeles Film Festival Opening Night Gala – “Snowpiercer” on Wednesday, June 11, 2014 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP/Yonhap)
Five South Korean filmmakers and actors have joined the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for the first time in history.
Directors Bong Joon-ho, Kim Sang-jin and Im Kwon-taek, and actors Choi Min-sik, Song Kang-ho will join the ranks of those with a vote in the Oscar race, according to Hwang Soo-jin, head of the Korean Film Council USA.
The Academy, in what Variety calls a “push for diversity,” invited 322 new members this year.
The organization invites new members annually in March; last year, it welcomed 271 new members.