Darcy Paquet (born 1972) is an American film critic, university lecturer, author and actor. In 2010, Paquet was awarded the Korea Film Reporters Association Award at the 15th Busan International Film Festival for his contributions in introducing Korean cinema to the world. Paquet was also the founder and organiser of Wildflower Film Awards Korea, which presents the Wildflower Film Awards.
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Education
Paquet, a Massachusetts native, majored in Russian at Carleton College in Minnesota and earned a master's in applied linguistics at Indiana University.
Career
After making many Korean friends in graduate school, Paquet went to Seoul in 1997 to teach English at Korea University and planned to stay briefly before going to the Czech Republic.
Since 1998, Paquet has served as a special adviser and English-language editor for the Korean Film Council.
In 1999, he created the website Koreanfilm.org to introduce Korean films. From 2003 to 2011, he also wrote a monthly column for the Korean film weekly Cine21.
In 2009, Paquet published a book, New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves, about the changes in Korean cinema from the 1980s to 2000s.
At the 15th Busan International Film Festival in 2010, Paquet received the Korea Film Reporters Association Award for his contributions to promoting Korean cinema to the world.
Paquet has been the English subtitle translator for numerous Korean films, some examples include:
Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) by Bong Joon-ho
Memories of Murder (2003) by Bong Joon-ho
The Host (2006) by Bong Joon-ho
Mother (2009) by Bong Joon-ho
Ode to My Father (2014) by Yoon Je-kyoon
Assassination (2015) by Choi Dong-hoon
The Handmaiden (2016) by Park Chan-wook
The Age of Shadows (2016) by Kim Jee-woon
The Day After (2017) by Hong Sang-soo
Parasite (2019) by Bong Joon-ho
Decision to Leave (2022) by Park Chan-wook
Next Sohee (2022) by Jung Ju-ri
Broker (2022) by Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Dream Songs (2022) by Cho Hyun-chul
Hopeless (2023) by Kim Chang-hoon
Cobweb (2023) by Kim Jee-woon
Concrete Utopia (2023) by Um Tae-hwa
He was appointed an honorary citizen of Busan in 2020 for "his contributions to the city's film education."
Personal life
Paquet met his wife Yeon Hyeon-sook in 1998 and they married after dating for three years. They have two sons.
