How do you feel in Korean? Shim Eun-kyung won the best award at the Locarno Film Festival
Aug 19, 2025
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Shim Eun-kyung, who attended the awards ceremony, drew attention by expressing her feelings in Korean.
When Shim Eun-kyung gave her acceptance speech at the closing ceremony on the 16th, she said in Korean, `I am only grateful to be able to participate in such an honorable event. This may not be conveyed to you right now, but there are many people from all over the world, so I wanted to say how I feel in my own language."
She was honored to play the main character in 『Travel and Days』"I'm really happy that the journey I've taken with the director and staff has paid off," he said in his acceptance speech.
Then "This movie means a lot to me, and I wish I could go further through the Locarno Film Festival."," he said. At the same time, he translated his Korean acceptance speech back into Japanese and delivered it.
'Travel and Days' depicts the process of changing when the scriptwriter meets the owner of the accommodation in the snowy landscape of the travel destination.
The meeting between young director Miyake Shaw, who is drawing attention at the World Film Festival, and Shim Eun-kyung, who works in Korea and Japan, is drawing attention. The movie will be released in Korea this winter.
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