On January 21, the Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles (Director: Kim Young-san) held Korean Film Night at the Sundance Film Festival, a worldwide independent film festival in Park City, Utah.

This year's event introduced Park Chan-wook, the world-renowned Korean film director and other film professionals including Daniel Dae Kim, the American Hollywood actor who gained fame from his role in "Lost". Other film professionals that also attended the event included WME, the Hollywood agency from ICM and about 300 other industry key figures.

At the Sundance Film Festival, director Muel O made a splendid achievement as he won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize with “Jiseul”, a film that portrayed 1948 Jeju massacre. In addition, “Bite of the Tail” and “You are More Beautiful” (starring Hyo-jin Gong and Hui-soon Park) which were directed by Song E Kim and Tae-yong Kim, respectively, were invited to Animated Short Films and International Narrative Short Films.

In particular, the Hollywood movie “Stoker”, directed by Chan-wook Park, made its successful debut at the festival. This movie caught the public’s attention at the film festival because notable stars, Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode starred in the movie.

Nam Lee, a professor of Film and Media at Chapman University, eagerly looks forward to seeing Korean films "expanding and establishing a solid foothold in the United States film market by introducing Korean movies and solidifying the networks at the Sundance Film Festival as it is one of the most significant film festivals in the United States". "We will support the future of Korean films in the United States with arrangements of more organized and systematically well-filled events to arrange" was a statement from the Korean Cultural Center.