South Korea - 2025 ACF Fall

Tossup

A director from this country created an elderly woman who writes poetry while amassing money to cover up her grandson’s crime. (10[2])A film from this country (10[1])ends with a detective (10[1])returning to a culvert in farmland (10[6])before staring (10[7])into (10[2])the (10[1])camera (10[13]-5[1])after (10[4])a child (10[4]-5[1])fails (10[4]-5[1])to describe (10[3])a killer. (10[6]-5[3])In a (10[1])film (10[1])from (10[2])this (10[2]-5[1])country, (10[6])a (10[1])vegetarian (10[2]-5[1])actor ate (10[1])a live octopus (10[1])and performed (-5[1])an (10[1])extended-take (10[2]-5[1])hallway (10[1])fight. (10[2])In a film from this country, (10[2]-5[2])a character comments on his (10[1])driver’s “subway (10[1])smell.” (10[8]-5[1])A film (10[1])from this (10[2])home country (10[4]-5[1])of (10[2])the (10[1])original Oldboy depicts a (-5[1])poor (10[2])family (10[2])using a housekeeper’s (10[1])peach allergy (10[2])to (10[1])infiltrate a rich household. (10[3])For 10 (10[1])points, name this home country of Parasite’s director, (10[2])Bong Joon-ho. (10[1])■END■ (10[8])

ANSWER: South Korea [or Republic of Korea or ROK or Hanguk or Tehan-minguk; prompt on Korea; reject “North Korea” or “Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” or “DPRK”] (The first line refers to Poetry by Lee Chang-dong. The unnamed director is Park Chan-wook.)

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Buzzes

Player	Team	Opponent	Position	Value
Dylan Steptoe	Guelph A	McMaster C	20	10
Camden Walker	WashU Grolars	Purdue B	20	10
Aaron Wang	Cornell A	RIT A	25	10
Julian Moody	Tufts A	Boston University B	29	10
Winston Zuo	UC Santa Barbara	USC B	35	10
Will Jones	Michigan State D	Michigan State B	35	10
Sam Kung	UNC C	Tusculum A	35	10
Kelvin Ni	NYU A	NYU B	35	10
Eugene Kim	Purdue D	Illinois Champaign	35	10
Ben Stras	Wisconsin C	Wisconsin A	35	10
Janghyun Lee	Berkeley Little Prince	UCSC	37	10
Tobias Smerdon	Toronto G	Toronto B	37	10
Kevin Yang	Illinois Blue	Rose-Hulman A	37	10
Francis Dinh	Illinois Canada	Iowa B	37	10
Johnny Myers	Williams B	MIT B	37	10
Jaehyun Park	Boston University A	Williams C	37	10
Brendan Liaw	British Columbia A	Washington Chinook	37	10
Christian Humeniuk	McMaster A	Brock A	38	10
Sean Gao	Toronto E	Toronto F	38	10
Davis Johnson	Purdue A	Iowa A	39	10
Ethan Ririe	UCSD B	USC A	40	10
John Rootham	Ottawa D	McGill E	40	10
Michael Xu	McMaster B	Queen's A	40	10
Indigo Chen	Waterloo C	Toronto C	40	10
Brody Johnson	Louisville B	Michigan B	40	10
Harry Barsan	Louisville C	Pittsburgh	40	-5
Liam Rojas	Virginia A	William & Mary B	40	10
Arhith Dharaendra	Georgia Tech B	Georgia A	40	10
Towery McNeil	Mississippi State A	Sewanne	40	10
Yuxuan Lu	Vanderbilt A	Montevallo	40	10
Evan Roberts	Vanderbilt C	Alabama A	40	10
James Bramley	Durham C	Edinburgh B	40	10
Michael Shipman	Cambridge D	Imperial C	40	10
Atom Lucenet	Imperial D	Southampton	40	10
Brayden Whitlow	George Mason C	Princeton	41	10
Hitansh Malaviya	Rutgers C	George Mason B	41	10
Aarav Vasanthan	Rutgers A	Vassar B	41	10
Harri Slaughter	Cardiff	Warwick	41	10
Michael Zheng	UCLA F	Claremont C	43	10
Ishan Pachauri	UCLA C	UCSD A	43	10
Conner Yamnitz	WashU Grizzlers	Illinois Urbana	43	10
Blake Johnson	Boston College A	Williams A	43	10
Andreas Ktori	Durham A	Sheffield A	43	-5
Connor Kahn	NCSU A	Liberty B	44	10
Cara Leonard	William & Mary C	Virginia Tech A	44	10
Aarnav Vyas	Illinois Orange	Chicago B	44	10
Brooks Phillips	Auburn A	Auburn C	44	-5
Jason Cottle	Clemson C	Clemson A	44	10
Taran Knutson	Michigan A	CWRU C	46	10
Nishad Joshi	Kentucky	WVU A	46	10
Vishrut Pisupati	Imperial B	Cambridge A	46	10
Ellen Ge	Toronto A	Toronto D	48	10
Meredith Wiper	CWRU B	Michigan C	48	10
Jeffery Austin	UNC D	Virginia Tech C	48	10
Mohamed Algraiw	MIT A	Brandeis Beethoven	48	-5
Dylan Tanouye	Tufts B	Harvard	48	-5
Kevin Liu	Texas	Washington Atlantic	48	10
Daniel Chen	Emory A	Auburn B	48	10
Devin Tharp	Chipola College	Georgia Tech C	48	10
Logan Patil	Georgia Tech F	Tennessee A	48	-5
Kingsley Chen	McGill A	Carleton B	50	10
Alex Feller	Minnesota	Michigan Tech	51	10
June Miller	Florida A	Florida Tech A	52	10
Angelo Pan	CWRU A	Ohio State D	52	10
Sai Yarlagadda	Ottawa B	Ottawa C	53	10
Omer Korkmaz	Johns Hopkins	Rowan	53	-5
Yiwei Jiang	NYU C	Vassar A	53	10
Tobias Cortes	Indiana A	William Woods University A	54	10
Anthony Xu	Amherst A	Vermont A	54	10
Alan Fan	Washington Steelhead	Arizona State B	54	10
Stan Entwistle	Edinburgh C	York	54	10
Edwin Griffith	Birmingham	Cambridge E	54	10
Irene Wu	Cornell D	Cornell B	54	10
Trey Lewis	South Carolina A	Georgia Tech D	55	10
Shreyansh Satapurthy	UCLA D	Claremont B	56	10
Summer Solis	JMU B	Duke A	56	10
Yvonne Pan	Amherst B	Brown B	56	-5
Leandro Zhang	Columbia A	Lehigh A	58	10
Jerry Lin	Vanderbilt B	Tennessee Tech	61	10
Annoshae Mirza	Berkeley Archer Queen	Berkeley Boss Bandit	63	-5
Brady Hagan	Ohio State B	Michigan State C	64	10
Joshua Iyo	UNC B	Liberty A	65	10
Pranav Jothi	Georgia Tech A	Georgia Tech E	65	10
Andrew Miller	Binghamton A	Binghamton C	65	-5
Daniel Kim	Maryland A	Stony Brook	66	10
Liam Buck	St. Thomas	Iowa State	67	10
Alan Zhang	British Columbia C	Washington Masu	67	10
Rohit Chintala	Maryland B	Lehigh B	73	-5
Arthur Zhang	Purdue C	Indiana B	73	10
Jonathan Schnipper	Brandeis Mozart	Dartmouth A	73	10
Jack Disbury	Durham D	Edinburgh A	73	-5
Anne Fjeld	Alberta A	Washington Coho	78	10
William Edwards	Tennessee A	Georgia Tech F	80	10
Yechan Park	Berkeley Boss Bandit	Berkeley Archer Queen	81	10
Jacob Cohen	UCLA A	UCLA E	81	10
Terrence Han	UCLA B	UC Irvine	81	10
Malcolm Meyn	McGill C	Carleton A	81	-5
Heidi Moyer	ERAU Daytona A	South Florida A	81	10
Alex Wong	Rutgers D	Maryland C	81	10
Ben Weng	Macalester	Wisconsin B	81	10
Micah Lauzon	Dartmouth B	Tufts C	81	10
Uriah Lee	Sheffield B	Edinburgh D	81	10
Nicholas Decker	George Mason A	Columbia B	83	10
Nicholas Nguyen	Florida B	Florida Tech B	85	10
Honor Mountford	Cambridge C	Oxford	85	10
Juan Landaeta	Florida State A	UCF A	87	10
Peter Zeng	Ohio State A	CWRU D	87	10
James Wan	Penn	Rutgers B	87	10
Carson Kessler	Washington Pink	Alberta B	87	10
Harrison Greenlee	Washington State	Washington Sockeye	87	-5
Dirk Hay	Louisville D	Michigan D	88	10
Owen Gibbs	Boston College B	Dartmouth C	88	10
Kieran Freed	Rochester	ESF	89	10
Jake Scoville	RIT B	Binghamton B	93	-5
Kevin Nolan	NCSU B	JMU A	94	10
Matthew Bray	Auburn C	Auburn A	94	10
Joe Paterson	Michigan State A	WVU B	95	10
Jack Meyers	Brown B	Amherst B	95	10
Josh Morris	Bristol	LSE	98	10
Danny Han	Stanford B	Berkeley Skeleton King	100	10
Susanna Liao	Waterloo A	Toronto I	100	10
Kayla Drajpuch	Brandeis Bach	Brown A	101	10
Thomas Vukovic	Toronto H	Waterloo B	105	10
Emily Kadolph	Virginia Tech B	VCU A	105	10
Harry Sexton	Edinburgh A	Durham D	105	10
George Matsumura	Washington Chum	Boise State	107	10
Ritisha Dey	Stanford A	Berkeley Mighty Miner	115	10
Violet Page	Binghamton C	Binghamton A	115	10
Nicolaus Derikx	Carleton A	McGill C	117	10
Elise Economou	Pittsburgh	Louisville C	118	10
Nicholas Ryan	Lehigh B	Maryland B	118	10
Sam Millenbach	Rowan	Johns Hopkins	118	10
Kaitlyn Farrin	Brandeis Beethoven	MIT A	118	10
Wren Horne-Sarkees	Harvard	Tufts B	118	10
Simarya Ahuja	Washington Sockeye	Washington State	118	10
Charlie Castleton	Sheffield A	Durham A	118	10
Isaiah Schmid	Binghamton B	RIT B	118	10

Summary

Tournament	Edition	TUH	Conv. %	Neg %	Average Buzz
UK (North)	UK	5	100%	40%	79.60
UK (South)	UK	7	100%	0%	57.71
Northern California	US	4	100%	25%	83.25
Southern California	US	7	100%	0%	54.14
Eastern Canada (1)	US	4	100%	25%	65.00
Eastern Canada (2)	US	9	100%	0%	51.78
Florida	US	4	100%	0%	76.25
Great Lakes	US	11	100%	9%	65.36
Lower Mid-Atlantic	US	9	100%	0%	59.00
Upper Mid-Atlantic	US	12	100%	17%	68.50
Midwest	US	9	100%	0%	42.44
North	US	4	100%	0%	58.50
Northeast	US	12	100%	25%	72.83
Pacific	US	8	100%	13%	74.50
Southeast	US	12	100%	17%	54.58
Upstate NY	US	5	100%	40%	80.20