Minari was the story he felt compelled to tell. The semi-autobiographical film tells the story of a Korean-American family living in Arkansas, exploring moments of challenge, resilience and levity as they lay down roots in the Ozarks. Minari was a favorite at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, taking the coveted Grand Jury Prize and the U.S. Dramatic Audience Award. And at last Sunday’s Golden Globes it won Best Foreign-Language Film, with some controversy as to fairness. Though Minari was filmed and financed in the U.S., it was ineligible to compete for Best Picture due to the 50 percent English language requirement. “[There's] fundamental problems like how we look at people and the way we think, that language makes somebody ‘foreigner’ and somebody ‘welcome,’ Chung told HYPEBEAST Korea. “I don’t think that changing one awards ceremony will solve that problem. But I think it’s a good thing for us to feel a problem and start talking about it.”