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‘Hippy granddad’ O Yeong-su wins South Korea’s first Golden Globe for ‘Squid Game’ role

By PAGEJanuary 10, 2022Updated:January 14, 2022No Comments3 Mins Read
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'Hippy granddad' O Yeong-su wins South Korea's first Golden Globe for 'Squid Game' role

A view of the venue NeueHouse where the special event for the television series Squid Game is being held in Los Angeles, California, U.S. November 8, 2021.

 

Published in Reuters on Jan 10th, 2022,  By Hyonhee Shin

SEOUL, Jan 10 (Reuters) – South Korean actor O Yeong-su won the country’s first Golden Globe award on Sunday for his role in Netflix hit “Squid Game”, drawing cheers at home and abroad despite criticism for the ceremony’s organisers over a lack of diversity.

O, 77, won best supporting actor in television for his portrayal of Oh II-nam, also known as The Host or Player 001, becoming the first South Korean ever to snatch a Golden Globe.

He beat more globally renowned competitors including Billy Crudup and Kieran Culkin, who were respectively nominated for their performances in The Morning Show and Succession.

This year’s ceremony was held privately without the usual glitzy fanfare after many actors, directors and film studios refused to attend amid criticism that its organiser, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, lacked decent ethics policies and ethnic diversity.

“After hearing the news, I told myself for the first time, ‘you’re a nice dude,'” O said in a statement released by Netflix.

“It’s no longer us within the world, it’s the world within us. Embracing the scent of our culture and the love for my family, Thank all of you in the world. I wish you a beautiful life.”

O’s achievement came after Youn Yuh-jung won best supporting actress at last year’s Academy Awards, the first South Korean to win an Oscar, for her role in “Minari,” a heartfelt Korean immigrant tale.

President Moon Jae-in congratulated O and the drama’s crew, saying “Squid Game” gave hope for humanity despite its gloomy depiction of society.

DYSTOPIAN DRAMA

“Squid Game”, in which cash-strapped contestants play childhood games with deadly consequences in a bid to win 45.6 billion won ($38.1 million), became a worldwide sensation and Netflix’s biggest original series launch.

In the nine-part show, O posed as a frail, harmless old man, before eventually revealing his true identity as the sinister orchestrator of the games.

The dystopian drama has inspired countless real world recreations and social media memes in South Korea, including his use of the term “kkanbu”, which roughly translates as “friend”, propelling his popularity as a hippy “kkanbu grandpa”.

Born in 1944 in what is now a North Korean border town of Kaepung, O is regarded as one of the greatest stage actors in South Korea, appearing in more than 200 stage productions since 1963 and winning a number of major awards.

He has also played many charismatic supporting characters in film and television, including in “Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring” released in 2003 by late award-winning director Kim Ki-duk.

O’s portrayals of a Buddhist monk in that 2003 movie and others won him the nickname “monk actor” and several television commercials.

He said during a TV appearance in October that he had decided to join “Squid Game” out of appreciation for the director’s insight over social irregularities.

“Our society goes by as if only No. 1 survives. No. 2 lost to No. 1, but beat No. 3. After all, everybody is a winner,” he said then.($1 = 1,196.4400 won)

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Reporting by Hyonhee Shin; Additional reporting by Minwoo Park; Editing by Alex Richardson and Emelia Sithole-Matarise

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