From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters and this is the business.

When I was doing Okja Press in Korea, a show asked me who I'd want to work with here.

And I mentioned I Chongdong.

They're like, oh, never thinking that I'd ever get to work with him because he does full Korean language films.

Like, I was like, oh, I'm not going to do it.

I'm just admire him.

And then I got a phone call. And the strangest part was, he was like, can you come to Korea anytime soon? And I was like,

I'm actually headed to Korea tomorrow. You may know Stephen Young from the Netflix movie Okja or AMC's

The Walking Dead. In the new Korean language film Burning, he plays Ben, a mysterious well-to-do

outsider who may or may not have a habit of setting things on fire. Today we look at the moody

movie Burning from two perspectives. Director Li Cheng Dong tells us, with the help of a translator,

why and how he made the transition from writing novels to making

films when he was in his 40s. He also talks about why, despite its rich cinematic history,

Korea has never had a film nominated for Oscar. Burning is the first Korean picture ever to make

it onto the short list for best foreign language film, but it didn't make the final cut.

Then actor Stephen Young, who played Glenn on the Walking Dead, tells us how he found himself

at a crossroads once his character met his end. And he talks about speaking Korean like a native

in Burning, despite having grown up in the United States. But first on the news banter, a burning expasse on Brian Singer.

Stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my associate in banter, Matt Bellany, of the Hollywood reporter.

Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

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