{"id":418378,"date":"2022-03-19T01:16:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T22:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/people-like-to-touch-my-oscar-for-luck\/"},"modified":"2022-03-19T01:16:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T22:16:37","slug":"people-like-to-touch-my-oscar-for-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/people-like-to-touch-my-oscar-for-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"#&#8217;People like to touch my Oscar for luck&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23a544e21f8\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a23a544e21f8\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/people-like-to-touch-my-oscar-for-luck\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98People_like_to_touch_my_Oscar_for_luck%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;People like to touch my Oscar for luck&#8217;&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1>&#8220;&#8216;People like to touch my Oscar for luck'&#8221;<\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Youn Yuh-jung, the first Korean to win an Academy Award ( \u201cBest Supporting Actress\u201d for \u201cMinari\u201d in 2021) for acting stars in the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/tv.apple.com\/\">Apple TV+ <\/a>adaptation of the generation-spanning 2017 novel \u201cPachinko.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis role was suitable for my age \u2013 she\u2019s 74,\u201d Yuh-jung, 74, told The Post. \u201cI read the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> first. I was very interested in that role and I felt like I needed to play it. Then, I went out and got the book. [I could relate to] her strength, and her determination to survive.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Premiering March 25, \u201cPachinko\u201d is a family saga covering the years 1910 to 1989 and following Sunja (Yuh-jung) and her family through the decades.<\/p>\n<p>Sunja, played in her younger days by Yu-na Jeon (as a child) and Minha Kim (as a young woman), grows up in poverty in a fishing village as her family faces repression during the Japanese colonization and occupation of Korea \u2014 until circumstances force her to leave Korea for Osaka, Japan. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010304.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Minha Kim sits in a dark room looking thoughtful. \" class=\"wp-image-21579700\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010304.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010304.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010304.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010304.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Minha Kim as the teen version of Sunja in \u201cPachinko.\u201d <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Juhan Noh<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"465\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010302.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Youn Yuh-jung as older Sunja reflects on her past in &quot;Pachinko.&quot; \" class=\"wp-image-21579760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010302.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010302.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010302.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010302.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Youn Yuh-jung as older Sunja reflects on her past in \u201cPachinko.\u201d <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Many years later, her grandson, Solomon (Jin Ha), an ambitious employee at a giant international firm who studied in America, returns to his roots in Japan and reconnects with his father Mozasu (Soji Arai) and grandmother Sunja (Yuh-jung) as he grapples with his family legacy.\u00a0Meanwhile, Sunja thinks she made the right choice to leave Korea at the time in the 1930s \u2014 but in her older years, she feels compelled to make a pilgrimage back to her homeland.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe faced all these difficulties. She got pregnant because she didn\u2019t know [the baby\u2019s father] was a married man,\u201d said Yuh-jung.\u00a0 \u201cBut she had a baby and she tried to protect him and was honest about it. I liked representing this Korean lady to the world. When I play a role, maybe inside of me something comes out from my heart \u2014 but I don\u2019t usually imitate people. I try to think about, \u2018If I were her, how would I behave?\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010101.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683\" alt=\"Jin Ha in a business suit walking through a busy airport terminal. \" class=\"wp-image-21579728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010101.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1366 1366w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010101.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010101.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=683 683w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/Pachinko_Photo_010101.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=341 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\"\/><figcaption>Jin Ha as Sunja\u2019s grandson, Solomon, in \u201cPachinko.\u201d <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Robert Falconer<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Yuh-jung rose to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/pagesix.com\/2021\/04\/26\/minari-oscar-winner-yuh-jung-youns-stylist-dishes-on-the-funny-star\/\">international prominence <\/a>with her award-winning role in \u201cMinari,\u201d she\u2019s had a storied career in Korea dating back to the 1960s. She briefly retired from acting in the 1970s before resuming in the 1980s. It was an unusually successful comeback for a then-middle-aged actress at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She said that winning an Oscar has not impacted her life, but she was also not aware of her status as the first Korean to take home the acting trophy until it happened.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were saying that\u2019s the first time in our history and I was really shocked. I felt like I was running for the country, like an Olympian,\u201d she said. \u201cI didn\u2019t like that pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"727\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1314439742.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=727\" alt=\"Youn Yuh-jung smiles and holds her Oscar. \" class=\"wp-image-21579750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1314439742.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1454 1454w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1314439742.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1091 1090w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1314439742.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=727 727w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1314439742.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=364 363w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/GettyImages-1314439742.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 727px) 100vw, 727px\"\/><figcaption>Young Yuh-jung with her Oscar in 2021. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>She said she\u2019s had to display her Oscar in a prominent place in her home for the sake of her friends and visitors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had so many awards. I put them in the basement. But that one, the Oscar, people like to see it and they like to touch it,\u201d she said. \u201cI asked why, and they said it will bring them luck, maybe. So, I keep it in the living room.\u201d\u00a0\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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