Born in 1970, KANG Hae-jung is a producer with a keen sense of popular culture and hands-on approach to her work. Although she was a member of the film club when she was studying at Korea University, she first considered working in the film industry upon seeing a flyer for an independent film workshop. This is where she met RYOO Seung-wan, who would become her husband. She started her career in 1995, as she was making the promotion material for repertory cinema Core Art Hall,...More

Born in 1970, KANG Hae-jung is a producer with a keen sense of popular culture and hands-on approach to her work. Although she was a member of the film club when she was studying at Korea University, she first considered working in the film industry upon seeing a flyer for an independent film workshop. This is where she met RYOO Seung-wan, who would become her husband. She started her career in 1995, as she was making the promotion material for repertory cinema Core Art Hall, in Seoul. After some more working experience at marketing company Film Room and later at Cinema Service, she joined Fun & Happiness Film in 2000 where she was in charge of the promotion of numerous films by the company’s CEO KIM Mi-hee. Since she wanted to learn how to produce movies, she received the opportunity to work as production coordinator on the set of <Ardor> and was later promoted to production manager for <Flying Boys>. She founded in 2005 production company Filmmaker R & K with her husband RYOO Seung-wan. Her early projects, <The City Of Violence> and <Dachimawa Lee>, both directed by RYOO, were box office flops. Following a three years’ hiatus, she returned to film production by picking up a novice director, GWON Hyeok-jae, and fostering <Troubleshooter> from planning and development to completion. She also co-produced and took charge of marketing RYOO’s new film, <The Unjust>. With the success of these two films, she was given the Woman Filmmaker of the Year Award in 2010. Her following films, <The Berlin File> and <Veteran>, also directed by RYOO, racked up seven million and thirteen million admissions respectively, the latter being the biggest success of her career.Less