Bong Joon Ho And Lee Isaac Chung Talk ‘Minari,’ And Steven Yeun

Last year, Bong Joon Ho made history and won four Academy Awards with his film Parasite, detailing a down-on-their-luck Korean family ingratiating themselves into the lives of a wealthy household. Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari describes a different family; based on Chung’s childhood experiences, the film casts Steven Yeun and Yeri Han as Korean immigrants in the 1980s who move to Arkansas to start a new life as farmers. Alan Kim plays their son, David, who balks when his grandmother (a scene-stealing Yuh-jung Youn) comes to live with them.