Do-yeon Jeon won the best actress award at the Cannes film festival for this role, making her the first Korean actor to win an acting award at Cannes.
South Korea's Official Submission to the Best Foreign Language Film Category of the 80th Annual Academy Awards (2008).
Director Lee has said that he intentionally began the film with a shot of the sky and ended it with a shot of the ground
This film is part of the Criterion Collection, spine #576.