The best movies in the world today are from ... Korea?

Amazingly, quietly, almost secretly - Korean cinema has become the most interesting and thoughtful in the world - why is this? I have to plead guilty here, I don't know the names of most of the directors or stars of the recent great Korean films, so I don't even know if it's one or two people or many who are responsible for this renaissance - but I'm thinking about the terrific films Mother, Oasis, The Host, Poetry, two of these made by Lee Chang-dong(?) - and now add a third of his to the list: Secret Sunshine - why don't more people know this film or his work? Secret Sunshine like his other works is a masterpiece, a tender and unflinching examination of a woman undergoing great suffering [ spoilers ] loss of husband and son - and how she copes and survives, without a bit of schmaltz or fakery, Lee takes follows her to the depth of despair, it's one of the greatest acting performances ever, as she at times is sweet and whimsical and tender, and then howls in misery - just an enormous range of emotion in one film. Most dramatic part of the movie for me is her battle with her faith - drawn to a church revival meeting, the greatest scene in the movie, beginning with her silent and stolid ending with her sobbing as those around her pray, then she joins a faith group but soon loses her faith, and all of her bearings, after meeting with the man imprisoned for killing her son. Smart, scary, built on scene after scene of smart writing, tremendous acting by a wide range of characters, camerawork that captures the life in a small but modern and growing city - terrific movie that just will never find a wide audience, has barely been distributed in u.s. as far as I know. Wake up!