List of Korean film directors
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  • Chang Gil-soo
  • Chang Yoon-hyun
  • Cho Jin-gyu
  • Choe Ha-won
  • Choi Dong-hun
    Choi Dong-hun
    Choi Dong-hun is a South Korean film director, best known for his gambling film, Tazza: The High Rollers. And his most recent film, Jeon Woo Chi has sold over 6 million tickets domestically...

  • Choi Ha-won
    Choi Ha-won
    Choi Ha-won is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1968 and 1990.-External links:...

  • Choi In-gyu
  • Chong Jin-u
  • Peter Chung
    Peter Chung
    Peter Kunshik Chung Peter Kunshik Chung Peter Kunshik Chung (born April 19, 1961 in Seoul, South Korea, as 정건식 (Chung Geun-sik, or alternative spelling Jeong Geun-Sik) is a Korean American animator...


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  • Jang Hun
    Jang Hun (director)
    Jang Hun is a South Korean film director. He has worked primarily with director Kim Ki-duk first with the production department, then as an assistant director, to getting a script from Mr. Kim; Rough Cut. In 2010 he directed Secret Reunion selling over 5,000,000 tickets making it the second...

  • Jang Hyun-soo
  • Jang Il-ho
  • Jang Jin
    Jang Jin
    Jang Jin was born on 28 November 1971 in Seoul, South Korea. He is a leading theatre director, playwright, movie director, screenwriter, and producer in South Korea.-Profile:...

  • Jang Jun-hwan
    Jang Jun-hwan
    Jang Jun-hwan is a South Korean film director. He is a graduate of Sungkyunkwan University. Jang's first directing job was on the short film 2001: Imagine. His feature-length debut film was the critically acclaimed cult film Save the Green Planet!...

  • Jang Sun-woo
    Jang Sun-woo
    Jang Sun-woo is a South Korean film director. Before his directorial debut, Jang made a name for himself by writing film criticism and scripts...

  • Jeon Soo-il
    Jeon Soo-il
    Jeon Soo-il is a South Korean film director, film producer and screenwriter. After graduating from the Department of Theatre & Film of Kyungsung University in Pusan, he studied Film Direction at Ecole Supérieure de Réalisation Audiovisuelle in France from 1988 to 1992...

  • Jeong In-yeop
  • Jeong Jae-eun
    Jeong Jae-eun
    Jeong Jae-eun was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1969. She is a screenwriter and film director, most noted for her debut feature film Take Care of My Cat, a story that follows the lives of a group of 5 girls moving on into the world in their own directions after graduating school.Jeong attended and...

  • Jeong Ji-yeong
  • Jeong Jin-woo
  • Jeong Yoon-chul
    Jeong Yoon-chul
    - Career :Jeong graduated from School of Film and Theater at Hanyang University. After his successful directorial debut with short film Memorial Picture, he was selected as a member of MAMPIST and studied film editing at the Australian Film Television and Radio School...

  • Joo Dong-jin

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  • Kang Je-gyu
    Kang Je-gyu
    Kang Je-gyu is a South Korean film director. He studied in Chungang University.He firstly got his prize in Korea Youth Film festival and Korea Scenario Awards in 1991.-Career:...

  • Kang Woo-suk
    Kang Woo-suk
    Kang Woo-suk is a South Korean film producer and director. He has often been called the most powerful man in Korean cinema, topping Cine21 magazine's list of '50 Most Powerful Men in Korean Cinema' for seven consecutive years from 1998 to 2004.Kang started as a director of successful comedy films...

  • Young Man Kang
    Young Man Kang
    Young Man Kang is a Korean filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California, United States. He has directed and produced The Last Eve , Soap Girl , Cupid's Mistake and Kimchi Warrior...

  • Kim Cheong-gi
    Kim Cheong-gi
    Kim Cheong-gi is a South Korean director of animated, fantasy, and science fiction films.His work, Robot Taekwon V , is considered one of the milestones of Korean animation of the 1970s...

  • Kim Han-il
  • Kim Ho-sun
  • Kim Hyung-tae
  • Kim Jeong-gwon
  • Kim Jho Kwang-soo
    Kim Jho Kwang-soo
    Kim Jho Kwang-soo , also known as Peter Kim, is a South Korean filmmaker.-Career:Kim is one of South Korea's few openly gay film directors and has been involved in the production of several works with gay themes...

  • Kim Ji-woon
    Kim Ji-Woon
    Kim Ji-woon is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim Ji-woon has a history of successfully tackling a wide range of film genres, garnering a cult following among Asian films fans all over the world.-Career:...

  • Kim Ki-duk (1934-)
  • Kim Ki-duk
    Kim Ki-duk
    Kim Ki-duk is a South Korean filmmaker noted for his idiosyncratic "art-house" cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit. He is not related to the Kim Ki-duk who directed Yonggary in the 1960s...

     (1960-)
  • Kim Ki-hun
  • Kim Ki-young
    Kim Ki-young
    Kim Ki-young was a South Korean film director, known for his intensely psychosexual and melodramatic horror films, often focusing on the psychology of their female characters. Kim was born in Seoul during the Japanese occupation, raised in Pyongyang and spent time in Japan, where he became...

  • Kim Sang-jin
  • Kim Seong-soo
    Kim Seong-soo
    Kim Seong-soo is a South Korean film director, known mainly for Musa and the comedy Please Teach Me English.- As director :* Beat * Musa * Please Teach Me English * Running Wild...

  • Kim Soo-yong
  • Kim Tae-yong
    Kim Tae-Yong
    Kim Tae-Yong is a South Korean film director, actor and scriptwriter. He is best known for co-directing the critically acclaimed horror film, Memento Mori and directing the award winning film Family Ties .- Personal life :...

  • Kim Ui-seok
    Kim Ui-seok
    Kim Ui-seok is a South Korean film director. He has directed six films since 1992. His film Cheongpung myeongwol was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.-Filmography:* Gyeolhon iyagi...

  • Kim Yong-hwa
  • Kwak Jae-yong
    Kwak Jae-yong
    Kwak Jae-yong is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He studied physics at Kyunghee University. He achieved success with his debut film Watercolor Painting in a Rainy Day in 1989, but the failure of his next two movies led to eight years of unemployment before a comeback with the...

  • Kwak Ji-kyun
  • Kwak Kyung-taek
    Kwak Kyung-taek
    Kwak Kyung-taek is a South Korean film director best known for his 2001 record-breaking film Friend.- Career :Friend, a drama where conflicting criminal alliances turn old friends into enemies, set a new Korean box office record with an audience of 8 million, and he received the Holden Award for...


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  • Lee Cheol-ha
    Lee Cheol-ha
    Lee Cheol-ha is a South Korean film director known for his stylish portraits of the human experience.Born in South Korea, Lee was raised in Seoul. He eschewed the film school route, doing other hands-on work for commercial film productions. He next got a job at Sidus FNH in 1999 with his first...

  • Lee Yoon-ki
    Lee Yoon-ki
    Lee Yoon-ki , is a South Korean film director and writer. He specializes in character dramas with limited dialogue.-Filmography:*This Charming Girl , 2004*Love Talk , 2005*Ad-lib Night , 2006...

  • Lee Chang-dong
    Lee Chang-dong
    Lee Chang-dong is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and novelist. He won the 2008 Special Director's Prize at the Asian Film Awards and has been nominated for the Golden Lion and Palme d'Or. Lee served as South Korea's Minister of Culture and Tourism from 2003 to 2004.-Life and career:Lee...

  • Lee Du-yong
  • Lee Eun
    Lee Eun
    Lee Eun is a director and producer of films in South Korea.-Filmography:As director*he Night Before Strike *If the Sun Rises in the West *Oh! Land of Dream As producer*Hello Brother...

  • Lee Hyun-seung
  • Lee Jae-Yong
  • Lee Jang-ho
  • Lee Jeong-hyang
  • Lee Jeong-Kuk
  • Lee Jun-ik
    Lee Jun-ik
    Lee Jun-ik is a South Korean movie director, producer and actor specialising in commercial historic movies and responsible for The King and the Clown; the highest grossing Korean film of 2005.-Director:...

  • Lee Kwang-hoon
  • Lee Kwangmo
  • Lee Man-hee
  • Lee Yong-min
  • Lee Yun-ki

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  • Park Chan-wook
    Park Chan-wook
    Park Chan-wook is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, producer, and former film critic. One of the most acclaimed and popular filmmakers in his native country, Park is most known for his films Joint Security Area, Thirst and what has become known as The Vengeance Trilogy, consisting of...

  • Park Cheol-kwan
  • Park Chul-soo
    Park Chul-soo
    Park Chul-soo is a South Korean film director, producer, screen writer and occasional actor. He was born in Daegu, South Korea. After graduating Daegu Commercial high school, Park studied at the department of Economics of Sungkyunkwan University with scholarship...

  • Park Chong-won
  • Park Gwang-choon
    Park Gwang-choon
    Park Gwang-choon is a South Korean film director and writer best known for writing and directing She's on Duty and the special effects-intensive The Soul Guardians...

  • Park Heung-shik
    Park Heung-shik
    Park Heung-shik is a South Korean film director. His credits include I Wish I Had a Wife, My Mother, the Mermaid, and Wedding Campaign, which was the closing film of the 2005 Pusan International Film Festival.-External links:*...

  • Park Heung-sik
  • Park Ki-Hyung
  • Park Kwang-hyun
    Park Kwang-hyun
    Park Kwang-hyun is a South Korean movie director.His first feature film Welcome to Dongmakgol pulled more than 8 million viewers in 2005, making it the second highest grossing movie that year after record-breaking The King and the Clown...

  • Park Kwang-su
    Park Kwang-su
    Park Kwang-su is a Korean filmmaker. He was born in Sokcho, Gangwon Province, South Korea on January 22, 1955 and grew up in Busan, South Korea. Park joined the Yallasung Film Group as a student of Fine Arts at Seoul National University...

  • Park Nam-ok

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  • Seol Tae-ho
  • Shim Hyung-rae
    Shim Hyung-rae
    Shim Hyung-rae is a South Korean former-comedian and filmmaker best known for directing the 1999 re-make of Yonggary and D-War , by far the most expensive Korean movie in history...

  • Shin Sang-ok
  • Song Hae-seong
    Song Hae-seong
    Song Hae-seong is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He made his feature film debut in 1999 with Calla, but didn't become more widely known until the success of his second film, Failan...

  • Song Il-gon
    Song Il-gon
    Song Il-gon is a South Korean film director and screenwriter known for his international award-winning early short films, and later feature films such as Spider Forest and Feathers in the Wind...


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  • Yang Ik-june
  • Yang Yoon-ho
  • Yoon Je-kyoon
    Yoon Je-kyoon
    Yoon Je-kyoon is a South Korean film director . His debut My Boss, My Hero is about a gangster who is sent back to school, while Sex Is Zero has been compared with American Pie....

  • Yoon Jong-chan
  • Yoon Suk-ho
    Yoon Suk-ho
    Yoon Seok-Ho is a South Korean television drama director.He was the director of four TV series produced by KBS that are sometimes collectively referred to as Endless Love, each containing the name of one of the four seasons in its title...

  • Yu Hyun-mok
    Yu Hyun-mok
    Yu Hyun-mok was a South Korean film director. Born in Sariwon, North Hwanghae, Korea , he made his film debut in 1956 with Gyocharo...

  • Yu Jin-seon

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