...”So if Parasite’s win simply means it will make it that much easier for international films to build up more curiosity among contemporary filmgoers for material outside Hollywood, then it is a good thing”....
Not a good thing when you recognize the Asian infiltration of Hollywood and our other Institutions are to use these to re-shape this nation’s identity and take us where all roads lead to China.
I have enjoyed Korean films and miniseries for good long while so I just see international recognition as organic and deserved. There has been a sort of Western cult following of such things.
Chinese billionaire tentacles in things like Hollywood is a separate matter.
And large swaths of Korean entertainment is actually banned in China for political reasons. (A 2017 US missile defense deal prompted it.)
https://www.vox.com/latest-news/2017/3/3/14795636/china-south-korea-pop-culture-kpop-attacks-thaad
Both "infiltration" and "Asian" are wrong. It is the Chinese Communist Party, not Asians in general, that is using its financial muscle to influence Hollywood and English language film-making in general to tone down anything that offends or criticizes them.
They are not infiltrating, they are just overtly using money to buy influence.