You learn something new every day as they say and it was only recently, when I came across this article by chance (HERE), did I discover that black actors in Korean films and television shows are a very recent thing. How recent? Since 2010.
Yeah it’s that recent.
To be honest it didn’t even cross my mind, but Korea being such a homogeneous country, unlike the U.S. or most of Europe or South America, I suppose that it should not be all the least surprising. But the guy in the image at the top has making history, in a way.
He’s Sam Okyere and he is, by all accounts, only the second black actor to appear in a Korean film – a comedy thriller called…
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