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Korean to join world's most celebrated directors for New York tribute

Park Chan-wook, already considered by many film buffs to be Korea's greatest director, has received more foreign recognition of his talents.

He has been asked to join some of the world's most celebrated filmmakers to participate in making Emmanuel Behbihy's new movie "New York Je T'Aime" (New York, I love You), a collection of vignettes, each five minites or less, depicting different aspects of New York City.

The new movie, which is set to be released early next year, is a sequel to "Paris Je T'Aime", a collection of 18 shorts by 21 directors from all over the world, each set in a different Parisian neighborhood.

Besides Park Chan-wook, the other 11 participating directors include Fatih Akin, who won the Berlin Film Festival's top Golden Bear award for "Head-on" in 2004 and Wang Xiaoshuais who produced "Beijing Bicycle", winner of the Berlin's Silver Bear Award in 2001.

Park Chan-wook gained recognition thanks to his trilogy "Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance" (2002); "Oldboy" (2003), the Cannes' Grand Prize-winner; and "Sympathy for Lady Vengeance'" (2005).

His latest feature "I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK". recently won this year's Alfred Bauer Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival.

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