
Birthday:
08-22-1968
(56 years)
Birthplace:
South Korea
Biography
1998년 일본영화학교 졸업. 김성수 감독의 조감독 출신으로 충무로에서 오랜 경험을 쌓아오다 를 통해 데뷔했다. 2005년 부산국제영화제 폐막작으로 선정된 는 결혼하지 못한 시골 총각들의 이야기를 코믹하게 그려 특유의 우직하고 힘찬 연출 스타일을 보여주었다. 은 온, 오프라인을 넘나들며 일어나는 실시간 살인사건을 다룬 새로운 소재의 스릴러 영화. 산동네라는 변두리의 배달부와 다방 레지 등의 이야기를 통해, 사회에서 소외 받고 있는 3류 인생들의 삶과 현실을 리얼하게 그려낼 예정이다. 단편 (1997) -제23회 금관영화제 심사위원특별상(1997) -인디포럼 98 공식 상영작(1998) -미국 넥스트 프레임 학생영화제 본선(1999) M/V 조감독(1999) M/V 조감독(2000) M/V 조감독(2002)
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Act like Director Goo
event2023 star_border 6.6
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A story of how Park Kang's life is changed on Christmas day. Park Kang is a popular actor, but he is also a scandal maker. His manager is Jo Yoon and they are also long-time friends. One day, Park Kang's ex-girlfriend Soo-hyun suddenly appears in front of Park Kang.
The Battleship Island
Act like Interpreter
event2017 star_border 7.1
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During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to escape.
Money
Act like Audit Team Leader
event2019 star_border 6.9
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Get caught up in the tale of a new stock broker who dreams of becoming rich. Those dreams make him susceptible to a stock market scam that threatens to get him in trouble.
Hitman: Agent Jun
Act like Orphanage director
event2020 star_border 7.2
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A failing webtoon artist finds he's drawn a target on his own back after publishing a story containing real secrets from his former life as a superspy.
Asura: The City of Madness
Act like Detective Guk
event2016 star_border 6.8
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A shady cop finds himself in over his head when he gets caught between Internal Affairs and the city’s corrupt mayor.
Best Friend
Act like Director of the Press
event2020 star_border 7.7
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Daekwon is the team leader of the surveillance team on the verge of getting a demotion. His mission is to be as an unemployed head of a household and monitor the politician's family who's been house arrested right after arrival from abroad for 24 hours a day with his team. Members of the surveillance team, who have moved into the next door disguised as a neighbor, discover secrets one by one, through monitoring all the sounds and behaviors of suspicious family members, from requests for a radio show to midnight rustling noises…
The Warrior
event2001 star_border 7
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In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Korea then) sent a delegation of many diplomats, soldiers and a silent slave to make peace with the new Chinese government. However, this delegation got charged as spies and sent in exile to a remote desert.
12.12: The Day
Act like Hwang Byeong-geun
event2023 star_border 7.5
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After the assassination of President Park, martial law has been declared. A coup d’état bursts out by Defense Security Commander Chun Doo-gwang and a private band of officers following him. Capital Defense Commander Lee Tae-shin, an obstinate soldier who believes the military should not take political actions, fights against Chun Doo-gwang to stop him. The conflict between the two grows while military leaders are holding their decision and Defense Minister is gone. In the midst of chaos, the spring of Seoul that everyone longed for heads to unexpected direction.
Mad Sad Bad
Act like Head of Department
event2014 star_border 7.7
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Ryoo Seungwan, Han Jiseung, Kim Taeyong got together to make a 3D omnibus film. It's a 3D vision of terrible realities never far from popular culture today. The stages of its episodes are different with one another. Tragedies and fantasies unfold in the city, the woods, and the future. The 3D technique is used in scenes where the characters have fancies to get over suffering in reality. It's interesting to watch 3D scenes directed by representative directors of Korea, and it's noteworthy in terms of industry that this try displays the possibilities and realities of 3D film in Korea, as well. It's the new vision of KAFA's project, KAFA+
The Plan Man
Act like Japanese researcher (uncredited)
event2014 star_border 7
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The Plan Man is about a man who lives everything according to plan until he meets a woman who wasn't a part of it.
Boomerang Family
Act like Wedding Photographer
event2013 star_border 7
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Based on an original written by Cheon Myeong-gwan, a 48 year-old movie director moves into the house where his mother and 50 year-old brother lives until his sister moves in with her niece.
Inside Men
Act like Film Producer
event2015 star_border 7
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A disgruntled henchman teams up with an ambitious prosecutor to bring down a leading presidential candidate and the news editor behind him who is truly pulling the strings.
Veteran
Act like Police Head in Charge of the Jurisdiction
event2015 star_border 6.9
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When an old collaborator gets severely injured, a veteran policeman tries to figure out the way to bring to justice the ultimately suspected aggressor, a spoiled young executive, heir to a mega corporation, who believes he is above the law.
Be with Me
Act like Student leader
event2010 star_border 5.4
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Seo-hee, Nam-hee and Lan. These three girls happen to read their tarot cards. Tarot cards tell them once-in-a-life-time opportunities will be coming to each of them simply by holding tarot cards and chanting magic spells. And the magic spells are nothing but their own names! Once their names are said, very special events begin to unfold.
The Unjust
Act like Public Defender
event2010 star_border 6.5
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An honest cop has to compromise with his principles when he is told to find a scapegoat for a high-profile serial killer case in exchange for a big promotion.
Eating Existence
Act like Kim Kwang Bae (10 ep.)
event2015 star_border 2.5
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Yoo Yang faces daily challenges working in customer service and tries to make it through each day without too many scars. She’s a part of the so-called Sampo Generation, a new generation of young professionals who eschews courtship, marriage and childbirth because of the tremendous social and economic pressures facing them. Yang instead takes great delight in food and loves to go around to find and eat great food. But when Yang meets the devilishly good-looking Park Byeong, who shares her attitude and also inexplicably finds her irresistible, will her attitudes about life and love change?
Panda and Hedgehog
Act like Lee Jong Gap (16 ep.)
event2012 star_border 5.8
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Ms Panda and Mr Hedgehog is a South Korean romantic comedy television series starring Lee Donghae of Super Junior and Yoon Seung-ah. It was broadcast on Channel A from August 18, 2012 to October 7, 2012. The story is about Go Seung-ji, a prickly patissier who teams up with Pan Da-yang, an easygoing pastry shop owner, to open a successful new cafe.
S.I.U.
Director (16 ep.)
event2011 star_border 5.6
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Sung-Bum is a hot-tempered detective who relies on his intuition to crack cases. He rarely comes across a case that he cannot solve. The body of a police officer is then discovered in a burned out car near an abandoned building. Drugs are also found near the dead officer. To catch the killer the police department sets up a special investigation unit for the case. Sung-Bum takes part in the investigation. Ho-Ryong is a young, confident man who works as a criminal profiler. He trained with the F.B.I. in the United States. Ho-Ryong is also assigned to the special investigation unit. Ho-Ryong relies on evidence rather than instinct. Detective Sung-Bum takes an immediate dislike for Ho-Ryong.
Wedding Campaign
Director (16 ep.)
event2005 star_border 6
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A 38-year-old single man, Hong Man-Taek is a petty farmer still living with his mother. Seeing a neighbor married to an Uzbekistan bride and frightened by the fact that his own grandson will never get married, Man-Taek's grandfather decides to send Man-tek to Uzbekistan to find a bride.
Off-Line
Director (16 ep.)
event2008 star_border 3
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A restaurant delivery boy witnesses the murder of his crush during an internet chat session. He becomes the prime suspect and must catch the real murderer before the police catch him.
Yadang: The Snitch
Director (16 ep.)
new_releases Release: April 23, 2025
Drug-criminals take advantage of commutation by passing over the insider’s information bought from ‘Ya-Dang’. Cops and prosecutors, on the other hand, make performances by using the information. There is a triangle in Korean drug-crime scene: police, prosecutors and the game changer, ‘Ya-Dang’.
City of the Rising Sun
Assistant Director (16 ep.)
event1999 star_border 7.3
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Do-chul is a boxer who never wins a game. While trying to make some money, he gets involved with Hong-ki, a small-time crook. They somehow make friends and hang around together, but their views toward life and the world are almost opposite.
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