Nielsen Impact Award honoree: Kim Dong-ho

October 06, 2008 For three years they had worked on creating a major film festival for Korea, a place where people could come and see that there was more to cinema than Hollywood blockbusters and local melodramas. Clearly, they needed a representative, someone with the clout and connections to open doors, help them navigate the government's Byzantine bureaucracy and force the powers-that-be to take the plans seriously. [...] so, on a hot August afternoon in a fancy hotel lobby in Seoul, they asked Kim Dong-ho to be their guide and festival director.

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