KONG Su-chang started his movie career in the “common people film” camp in the 1980s before crossing over to commercial filmmaking in the 1990s with fame as a talented screenwriter of thriller and war movies. <White Badge>, <The Ring Virus>, and <Tell Me Something> were among the scripts he worked on. He made his directorial debut with <R-Point>(2006), an acclaimed psycho-suspense film about the trauma of Korean veterans of the Vietnam War. This wa...More

KONG Su-chang started his movie career in the “common people film” camp in the 1980s before crossing over to commercial filmmaking in the 1990s with fame as a talented screenwriter of thriller and war movies. <White Badge>, <The Ring Virus>, and <Tell Me Something> were among the scripts he worked on. He made his directorial debut with <R-Point>(2006), an acclaimed psycho-suspense film about the trauma of Korean veterans of the Vietnam War. This was the first time a Korean movie depicted the persisting problems of the Vietnam War as a cinematic genre, not as cinematic realism. KONG’s second film was <GP 506> that deals with a mysterious murder case that takes place at an outpost on a warfront. That both of his films are about the military is a notable fact, but KONG’s “military films” are different from Hollywood war movies that highlight protagonists fighting against “unjust” outside enemies. To the director, the military seems to be a space that reveals contradictions of the society in general. His “military films” are tools to manifest the reality of division of the Korean people and the many societal contradictions of South Korea.Less