South Korean independent animation filmmaker Hur Bum-wook, director of the acclaimed features On the White Planet and Pig That Survived Foot-And-Mouth Disease, died on July 28. He became interested in animation as a teenager after attending a special program of National Film Board of Canada shorts at the Seoul Animation Center and later studied animation at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. His first feature, On the White Planet (2014), brought him international attention when it won the Grand Prix for Best Feature at the Holland Animation Film Festival. Pig That Survived Foot-And-Mouth Disease was selected for 35 international festivals and was nominated at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards. In a memorial statement, the Seoul Independent Film Festival remembered Hur as a filmmaker who demonstrated “the unyielding spirit and adventurous drive of Korean animation through every work he made.”