Award-winning South Korean director Kim Ki-duk dies with Covid-19

Kim Ki-duk. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, file)

South Korean director Kim Ki-duk, who won the top award at the Venice Film Festival in 2012 but later faced allegations of trying to force an actress into shooting off-script sexual scenes, has died at the age of 59.

The Baltic News Service cited Latvia-based Russian documentary filmmaker Vitaly Mansky, president of an international documentary film festival in Riga, as saying Kim died after falling ill there with Covid-19.