beethoven is for cars. is for play beethoven 202250th anniversary here on. this is the day of the news coming up. in the united states made in south korea. first picture of the also fast but i'm not. 100 yards of the academy awards the actions from south korea. saw in thailand as a country. that killed dozens in a shopping mall. and the virus spreading faster than infection people of chinese origin in paris become targets of xenophobia over.

british banditry welcome to news asia it's good to have you with us on a historic day nearly 100 yeahs in the making for the 1st time a non english firm has won best picture at the oscars as part of sight directed by bono who winning the top of all for this piece making. time. to be shook.

up comedy. now for the history books a fact not lost on director who who hopes this is the start of something new in world cinema. you know a lot of what it's all so it's the 1st time for korean cinema. for the 1st time so . it's about right now it seems like a huge exception but i think soon we'll come to a day when all this feels natural and this will no longer be a big issue. the big issue there being a recognition for good quality cinema respective for its language let's get the view from seoul where correspondent frank smith is standing by good to see you frank what has the reaction been in south korea to this when well it's been tremendous here if you looked online or on television or in a newspaper. in the win of paris at the cannes me awards lead all reports

also when you talk to people in the streets they knew what they were talking about as well because this is the highest grossing film and in south korean film history and it grossed more than 165000000 around the world so it has been a popular film and a crossover film who is also known for a couple other films that that made the great internationally snowpiercer and the host but this is a real breakthrough at the academy awards and and people on the street here in south korea again it didn't come as a big surprise and they had kind of a some sophisticated responses to what made this film and the director so special. double passively i felt that bone june host directing skills departed from the standard pattern of delivering moralizing messages to the audience and the international community gave good press to his movie because of the issues he

brought up with his unique style of directing. bunker and hose intention was to get people to think about communal life rather than individual ism i think he wanted to show that poverty can be passed down through family and it's not just about the individual which can lead to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer because in the one some very interesting responses there frank about aside it isn't the only south korean entertainment export to make a mark in the wild in recent days you have the cable phenomenon of course that is korean pop songs which have exploded onto the world stage what is driving this excellence in south korean entertainment creativity. well i think we need to go back actually a boat 2 decades to the to the 990 s. when the government said when they were going to push their cultural content especially around age since fields like winter sonata and then as you mentioned

keep up of course we recently had scion his some gung m. style which was you know the most viewed song on you tube for for some period of time and recently of course p.t.'s with their world when tour recently wrapping up so there are a couple of things those breakthroughs i mentioned and also the government support something like one percent of the government budget or a $1000000000.00 went into cultural content and really pushed that heavily you that korean wave around asia and now around the world as to who says in one of his acceptance speeches he talked about how this korean film perhaps crossed that one in spirit that subtitle barrier. for international content foreign language content to be more accepted around the world and what a crossover has been frank smith in several thank you very much for that.

time is a morning often a monstro turn over the weekend left at least 29 people most work in the shopping center in the country's north after the heavily armed soldier reportedly angry over a property deal went on a shooting rampage police eventually corner of the soldier and shot him dead off an operation but by then what. had already left many was innocent victims and it's weak. thailand is hard. to reach relatives are taking the bodies of their loved ones home they say a member of the thai special forces killed in the weekend shooting spree. one among dozens. elsewhere families waited for information though sirat already knew what was coming. her sister had been in the shopping mall

with her family. place in the evening someone sent me a photo showing my sister's body lying with her arm around her child. what about the father. he was nearby with blood all over his face. has emerged from inside the siege. as terrified shoppers made their daring escape. the way some were fleeing the danger others were running towards it including a civilian drone operator who volunteered to go inside the mall to help corner the killer. using his flying camera he led police to the storage unit where the gunman lay waiting. he charges the lights off when the drone nears police pounced shooting the rule book soldier and ending the massacre. outside the mall

tributes are growing moms and dads holding their babies that little bit tighter today this massacre has shattered the peace here. and. i feel scared because the incident just happened but i'm not sure of that feeling will fade away that i feel very scared even now because it happened so close to my house. just yards away and teens clean the blood stains but after the washed mass shooting in this country's history some matters will take more time like investigating whether this tragedy could have been prevented. where more than 100 people dead the fatalities from the coronavirus have surpassed those from the sars infection in 2003 despite that health experts estimate that the peak in cases of corona virus hasn't yet been reached but the fear around it's

spread has made those of chinese descent targets of discrimination such as here in europe did have a correspondence on your family went to china town in paris to find out more a basement in paris is chinatown. these elaborate costumes were meant for the annual chinese new year parade that draws thousands of spectators but for the 1st time the event was called off the sea or certainly 10 was a regular participant blames the coronavirus and the stigma if you would certainly not the right was cancelled not out of fear of the coronavirus but the fear of children being stigmatized with being told that asian children are coming back from school crying because they were singled out and made fun of they were insulted and called names so we didn't feel like celebrating that it's been very tough the thought of it suddenly turned grew up in this neighborhood a melting pot known for its 960 s. high rise apartment blocks and dozens of east asian stores and restaurants the

freshman is of chinese and commode into st and says he'd never really experienced racism opened in paris until a week ago. it was upon him it. took the metro and as i sat down the person next to me got up and moved away and then he covered his mouth and nose with a scar i realized it was a form of xenophobia and fear i was sad and shocked because it's far from being an isolated case accounts of prejudice avoidance and slows a piling up in france stalking the needs. here in southeastern paris the city's main chinatown which is home to large numbers of france's ition community the usually bustling neighborhood seems a bit subdued many residents a wary of speaking on camera but some are clearly rattled by incidents off with this abuse amid fears of the corona by a medium what a friend of mine who's asian was taunted and called

a virus in the metro that's not very nice but. our customers wanted to know if our waiters had chinese nationality even though ours is a vietnamese restaurant seeing asian faces didn't reassure them that the mc has really given free rein to racism against asians something which in france was not really talked about and not taken seriously the issue was revoked aerated across the french media on the banks of the river sent. journalist lynn london has been following accounts by french issuance of being targeted using the now popular hash type i am not a buy it was. like it's the fridge. she has long campaign that gets and racism in france but nothing prepared her for these responses to an article on the coronavirus in china she translates into english you shouldn't have weird beast this is normal they would do anything in that country the country is overcrowded to

nature is doing its work this is horrible like people they have no empathy we're just talking about sick people remember and then they would say say racist things like the virus is just a pretext to be hateful it will be a clear session was trying to do with little and has been speaking out against the heat on talk shows and on social media she's also hit out at sections of its own profession for example for this infamy tree headline in the local newspaper warning of a yellow alert so far france has recorded only a few cases of the corona bite was if the numbers go up the fear is the prejudice could spread just the smallest. over in china before the doctor walked off the new year holiday was extended to slow the spread of the corona virus we never know with a look at the streets of feeding a city of 22000000 visitors on the 1st day back across with you tomorrow.

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progress when we all accept the history of slavery as all of our history. our documentary series slavery routs starts march 9th on t w. m d. a big not full south korea's film industry and a bad night for netflix as paris wins for all scots and the film world recognizes the courts of movies made in asia against all expectations limits. as netflix is left disappointed. and as workers in china trickle back to their job sites on monday president engine pink assures them that won't be any mass layoffs in the wake of the corona crisis but many companies and factories remain closed. and the

japanese entrepreneur shows how to tackle the plastic bottle epidemic one app at a time. this is business as are you update on asian and global business news here on the w m d a how to office south korean movie parasites who made history at the oscars last night by becoming the 1st ever non english language movie to win best picture that was one of 4 awards won by a movie that only cost $11000000.00 to make it is taken in close to $170000000.00 at the box office now that figure is likely to shoot up dramatically on the back of its triumph in los angeles last night south korea has one of the most lucrative movie markets in the world grows box office revenue was one point $6000000000.00 in $2800.00 the 5th biggest in the world behind the u.s. china japan and the u.k. and just over half of that revenue comes from domestic korean movies featuring.