[ The World Times ] Shim Eun-Kyung

Wins Best Actress at Japan Academy Awards

 

Shim Eun-Kyung, 25, widely known among Koreans for her comic performances in Sunny and Miss Granny, was awarded Best Actress at the 43th Japan Academy Film Prize Awards, held at Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa in Tokyo on Mar. 6, for performance in The Journalist.

 

Directed by Michihito Fujii, The Journalist, based on a book with the same title written by a Japanese journalist named Isoko Mochizuki of The Tokyo Shimbun, revolves around Erika Yoshioka, a young reporter born to a Japanese father and a Korean mother, who investigates a big political scandal within the current Abe administration, urging people to wake up to their rights to know, emphasizing that the more people know, the more changes will ensue.

 

Shim, who spent a year studying Japanese to act in the film, said in Japanese at the award ceremony, "I didn't expect to win this award, so I'm not prepared for a speech. I'm sorry," and added, "I'll keep doing my best. Thank you very much."

 

While another Korean actress, Bae Doo-na, was nominated in the same category for Air Doll back in 2010, she didn't clinch the trophy. Shim became the first Korean actor or actress to be honored at this award ceremony, which launched in 1978.

 

The film also took Best Picture, and Tori Matsuzaka, who starred as an elite bureaucrat, received Best Actor.

 

*revolve v. (축을 중심으로) 돌다.

              n. 혁명(=revolution)

*revolve around somebody (관심. 주제가) ~을 중심으로 삼다. 

*investigate v. 수사하다, 조사하다, 살피다. 

*ensue v. (어떤일. 결과가) 뒤따르다. 

*clinch v. 성사시키다, 이뤄내다 / 매듭짓다, 결말을 내다. 

*bureaucrat n.( 흔히 못마땅한) 정부관료. 

*star v. (영화, 연극등에서) 주연을 맡다.