By Charles Audouin

A museum in the U.S. will highlight next month director Bong Joon-ho's filmmaking process and works.

The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in Los Angeles will run the exhibition "Director's Inspiration: Bong Joon-ho" from March 23 to Jan. 10, 2027.

The event is part of a series on directors chosen by the museum and their works.

Including Bong's archive materials and personal collection, the exhibition displays over 100 original items including storyboards, concept art, creature models, props and on-set photographs used in the filmmaking process.

The museum said, "Whether set in 1980s Korea or an imagined future, Bong Joon Ho's films highlight transnational and universal issues: class disparities, social injustice, the environmental crisis, and political and moral corruption."

"From his early short films to his globally successful movies such as 'The Host' and 'Parasite,' Bong Joon-ho's works have critiqued society through intriguing, unexpected, and thought-provoking stories."

Opened in 2021 by the Academy Foundation, which organizes the Academy Awards, aka the Oscars, the museum has held retrospectives featuring actors Song Kang-ho and Youn Yuh-jung. Bong's exhibition is the museum's first long-term display of a Korean director's works.

caudouin@korea.kr