Miky Lee, Vice Chairwoman of South Korea’s CJ Group, will obtain the Worldwide 2022 Directorate Emmy Award.
The Worldwide Academy of Tv Arts & Sciences award might be offered to Lee on the fiftieth Worldwide Emmy Awards Gala, on November 21 in New York Metropolis.
“Miky Lee is in a category of her personal, a visionary chief who has harnessed her distinctive enterprise acumen and love of her nation’s tradition by tirelessly spearheading the worldwide phenomenon of the Korean wave for over twenty 5 years”, stated Bruce L. Paisner, President and CEO of the Worldwide Academy. “The entire world witnessed her dedication to our business and Korea when she, together with the creators of Parasite, enthusiastically accepted the Oscar for her firm’s award-winning movie Parasite, a historic milestone for Korean content material.”
Lee is thought for her work in strengthening CJ’s presence, beginning with the funding with DreamWorks SKG in 1995. She was the important thing driving drive behind Okay-pop’s world success, creating and rising KCON, the Okay-culture competition that celebrates Korean tradition and music. In 2019, she was government producer of Parasite, the primary international language movie in historical past to win the Greatest Image Oscar. Since 2020, she has been serving as vice chair of the board of trustees of the Academy Museum of Movement Footage.
Headquartered in Seoul, CJ ENM engages in media content material, music, movie, performing arts, and animation. Greatest identified for the current a number of Academy Award-winning Parasite, CJ ENM’s credit additionally embody the tv sequence Crash Touchdown on You, Guardian: The Lonely and Nice God, Hospital Playlist and movies Snowpiercer, Miss Granny, BAFTA profitable Handmaiden, and the Tony Award-winning Broadway manufacturing Kinky Boots.
