Herald English » 2017 film independent spirit awards https://heraldk.com/en Korea Herald Business in English. Variety of Current Trending Business and Economic News about the Korean-American Community and Korea. Tue, 26 Sep 2023 00:45:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.15 Your watchfulness with AIMON can be the best defense for your baby. https://heraldk.com/en/2021/05/28/your-watchfulness-with-aimon-can-be-the-best-defense-for-your-baby/ https://heraldk.com/en/2021/05/28/your-watchfulness-with-aimon-can-be-the-best-defense-for-your-baby/#comments Fri, 28 May 2021 01:36:26 +0000 http://heraldk.com/en/?p=72951 Accidents are the main cause of injury and even death in children. People tend to relate accidents to traffic accidents or accidents in outdoor activities. However, as a matter of fact, accidental injury is the leading cause of death in kids up to 14 years old — and more than a third of these injuries happen at home. Home — the place which we regard as the safest place — hides many ‘hazards’. Kids explore their everyday environments, so it’s important to see things to make sure your home is safe. It’s true that young kids have the highest risk of being injured at home because that’s where they spend most of their time.

Home accidents are usually due to negligence of safety at home. Common causes of home-injury deaths are falls, suffocation, drowning, choking, poisoning, and burns. Even if your home is childproofed, it only takes an instant for babies and toddlers to fall, run over to a hot stove, or put the wrong thing in their mouths. Most home accidents are preventable through increased awareness, improvements in the home environment and greater product safety. In order to make your home safer, the most important safeguard is to watch young kids at all times.

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Here is a smart gadget for parents who deeply worry about the safety of their children. Just make sure your baby wears ‘AIMON Smart Band’ on her or his ankle. It collects four types of vital signs from your baby — heart rate, oxygen saturation, skin temperature, and fall detection —, and then sends it to the gateway. The gateway transmits the vital information to the cloud server or mobile application. It can also detect when your baby is crying. The gateway also displays the communication status of the system and battery with LED lights so that users can identify easily when the gadget is not working.

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Watching your child’s safety can be proactive for some measures in preventing home accidents, first aid measures and how to call for help. You can never completely ‘child-proof’ your home. You can, however, dramatically reduce the risk of injuries  and keep your child under constant supervision with ‘AIMON Smart Band’.

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Asia Journal

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]]> https://heraldk.com/en/2021/05/28/your-watchfulness-with-aimon-can-be-the-best-defense-for-your-baby/feed/ 0 Korean-American director wins big at Spirit Awards https://heraldk.com/en/2017/02/28/korean-american-director-wins-big-at-spirit-awards/ https://heraldk.com/en/2017/02/28/korean-american-director-wins-big-at-spirit-awards/#comments Tue, 28 Feb 2017 21:06:22 +0000 http://heraldk.com/en/?p=69501 Andrew Ahn flattered by comparisons of his ‘Spa Night’ to Oscar-winning ‘Moonlight’

As Hollywood was making its final preparations for the glitz, glamor — and gaffes — of this year’s Oscars, on Saturday the film world’s purveyors of lower-budget films gathered in Santa Monica, California, for the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards. Among those in attendance was Andrew Ahn, who won the John Cassavetes Award presented for the best feature film with a budget under $500,000 for “Spa Night,” and who was also a nominee for the Someone to Watch Award.

“Spa Night,” a story Ahn called “so personal” to him when it was shown at the 17th Jeonju International Film Festival in May last year, portrays a young Korean-American man discovering and coming to grips with his homosexuality after taking a job at a Korean spa. It was released in the US in August. While Ahn still pursues distribution in Korea — Korean is the primary language of the film — “Spa Night” recently began streaming on Netflix, iTunes and Amazon.
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“Now more than ever it’s so important that we support stories told by and about communities that are marginalized,” Ahn said when he took to the stage to accept the award Saturday.

Ahn expanded on this view Tuesday in a phone interview with The Korea Herald following his win. “With Donald Trump as president there’s a lot of policies and executive orders being put into place that are really scary,” he said. “Film is this really great opportunity to help people realize these laws are affecting human beings.”

Ahn recalled that when the film first screened in Los Angeles, a fellow Korean-American man asked why they had made a movie that’s not very indicative of their culture, saying, “This is only 1 out of 100 Korean-American experiences.”

Director Andrew Ahn hoists his trophy at the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday. (Screen capture from YouTube)

“But it would be so meaningful for that person,” Ahn replied, talking about the “burden of representation” he felt for not only Asian-Americans, but for the queer community as well. On Saturday, he ended his acceptance speech saying, “Finally I just have to thank my parents for understanding that their gay Korean-American son is their son. So thank you.”

Observations of similarities in theme between “Spa Night” and “Moonlight,” which on Sunday became the first film about a gay character to win the Academy Award for Best Picture, are inevitable.

“I’m very flattered and I encourage that association,” Ahn said with a laugh. “What the film (‘Moonlight’) does is so beautiful.”

Director Andrew Ahn (second from left) delivers his acceptance speech at the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday. (Screen capture from YouTube)

As Barry Jenkins, director of “Moonlight,” was also nominated as “Someone to Watch“ in 2009 for “Medicine for Melancholy,” does Ahn feel greater pressure coming off the Spirit Awards? “I don’t feel pressure so much as I am motivated to make more films, bigger films, riskier films,” Ahn told The Korea Herald.

On future projects, the director said he has begun working on an adaptation of a Korean-American novel he could not yet disclose.

But, he added, “I’m actively looking for opportunities to shoot films that take place in Korea. It’s a country I obviously have a strong connection to, but distance from (as a second-generation Korean-American).”

Director Andrew Ahn (center) accepts the John Cassavetes Award at the 2017 Film Independent Spirit Awards on Saturday. (Screen capture from YouTube)
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