Intellect

Darcy Paquet is a film journalist and researcher who has been living in Seoul since 1997. He is the founder and editor of the website Koreanfilm.org. He has contributed essays to various book-length studies of Korean cinema, including the essay ‘The Korean Film Industry: 1992 to the Present’ in New Korean Cinema; ‘Obaltan’, a chapter in The Cinema of Japan and Korea in the 24 Frames series; ‘Christmas in August and Korean Melodrama’, in Seoul Searching: Culture and Identity in Contemporary Korean Cinema. He is completing a book-length study on New Korean Cinema as part of the Short Cuts series published by Wallflower Press.

Since October 1998, Darcy has worked as an English editor and special advisor to the Korean Film Council, a government-supported organization charged with drafting Korean film policy and promoting Korean films in domestic and international markets.