Nam Dong-chul will act as interim director of the Busan International Film Festival after a month of management turmoil, two high profile resignations and sexual harassment accusations levelled at …
Lee said that he would resign to take responsibility for the mess caused by Cho’s appointmentHuh said that personal reasons were keeping him from returning. Shortly after, it emerged in a local newspaper that a festival employee had reported Huh to the Center for Gender Equality in Korean Films, called DeunDeun.
The vacancy in the festival director’s position is not expected to affect preparation for this year’s festival, Asia’s biggest and most prestigious, which is scheduled to run Oct. 4-13. Nam is an experienced programmer and has previously worked within both Busan’s festival and market structures. Huh became festival director in 2021, having previously been program director of the Busan Cinema Center and programmer of Korean films at the film festival. The early part of his career was spent as a journalist with movie magazine Cine21.
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