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In 2017/18 he was at the center of a #MeToo scandal after an actress he had been working with filed a sexual assault case against him. The case was partially dismissed for lack of physical evidence and he got away with a modest fine. But more evidence of his violence towards women surfaced later the same year when three actresses made new accusations on investigative news show "PD's Notebook," which was broadcast on Korean public broadcaster MBC. His career in South Korea effectively ended at that point. The Latvian news portal Delfi said Kim arrived in Latvia in November 2020 with the intention of buying a house and applying for alien residency status. Edith Sepp, CEO of the Estonian Film Institute, told that Kim approached the organization in September, keen to submit a new film entitled "Rain, Snow, Cloud and Fog," a co-production between Korea and Estonia that would have shot in the latter. Though he was late with the application, the director intended to apply again in January 2021. Kim Ki-duk died of coronavirus in a hospital in the Latvian capital of Riga on December 11, 2020. [Variety].

At one point wanted to remake his film Bad Guy (2001) with an American cast, eyeing Brad Pitt for the role of the titular bad guy.

Not to be confused with Kim Ki-duk, another South Korean director who was famous for being the first to crack the U.S. market with his "Yongary, Monster from the Deep" (1967).