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Mike Lee, South Korea’s affluent businesswoman behind ‘Parasite’


February 13, 2020

The woman who stepped up to make the final acceptance speech when Bong Joon-ho’s satire Parasite — about the gap between rich and poor — won the Oscar for Best Picture is herself a member of South Korea’s wealthiest family. Miky Lee, an heiress turned media mogul, is the executive producer of the first non-English-language film to secure the Academy Awards’ top …

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