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Bong Joon Ho on 'Parasite' Golden Globes nods and the Jessica Jingle TikTok that tickled him

It was a busy weekend for "Parasite" director Bong Joon Ho. He was in the clouds as he earned the first Golden Globes nominations of his career for his searing, genre-blending social thriller about a Korean family that infiltrates the household of a wealthy family.

Prior to boarding a cross-Atlantic flight on Sunday, he'd celebrated the news that he, the film and longtime muse Song Kang Ho had won awards from the L.A. Film Critics Assn.

By the time his

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