“Burning” has been chosen as the Korean film to be submitted as a contender for the “Best Foreign Language Film” category.

Cho Jae-young, reporter Lee Chang-dong's 'Burning' was selected as a Korean film to be shown at the 91st Academy Awards Foreign Film Division next year. 

The film promotion committee announced on the 8th, "The judges had a hassle and coordinated their opinions, and they selected" Burning "as the final entry among 10 applications for entries. 

The judges evaluated Burning as "the highest recognition of the director's artistic achievements in the world, and a work that can represent the present level of Korean film." 

"I also saw the maturity of an aesthetic and ethical eye that dissected the Korean society that I had never seen before had the potential to communicate with the universal intellectuals of the world's citizens." 

'Burning' is a work based on Japanese novel Murakami Haruki's short novel 'Burning a Barn', which depicts three men and women with a mysterious aspect. He was also invited to the Cannes Film Festival competition this year and received favorable reviews.