Darcy Paquet

Darcy Paquet (born 1972) is an American film critic, university lecturer, author and actor. In 2010, Paquet was awarded the Korea Film Reporters Association Award at the 15th Busan International Film Festival for his contributions in introducing Korean cinema to the world. Paquet was also the founder and organiser of Wildflower Film Awards Korea, which presents the Wildflower Film Awards. Education Paquet, a Massachusetts native, majored in Russian language at Carleton College in Minnesota and had a Master in Applied Linguistics at Indiana University. Career Having made many Korean friends in graduate school, Paquet went to Seoul in 1997 to teach English at Korea University and had planned to stay briefly before going to the Czech Republic. Since 1998, Paquet became a special advisor and English editor for the Korean Film Council.