Bong Joon-ho
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- This is a Korean name; the family name is Bong.
Bong Joon-ho | |
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Hangul: |
봉준호
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Hanja: |
奉俊昊
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Revised Romanization: | Bong Jun-ho |
McCune-Reischauer: | Pong Chunho |
Bong Joon-ho (b. September 14, 1969 in Seoul) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He is a graduate of the Korean Academy of Film Arts. Bong directed multiple critically-acclaimed short films before his feature film debut Barking Dogs Never Bite in 2000. For his 2003 film Memories of Murder, he won the South Korean film industry's Grand Bell Award for best film director. He is probably best known as the director of The Host, South Korea's most successful film of all time (as of January 2007).
Like another Korean director Park Chan-wook, Bong is a partisan of Democratic Labor Party, a minor leftist party in South Korea.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Director
- Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
- Memories of Murder (2003)
- The Host (2006)
[edit] Writer
- Phantom: The Submarine (1999)
- Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
- Memories of Murder (2003)
- Antarctic Journal (2005)
- The Host (2006)
[edit] References
- (Korean) Naver biographical information