KWAK Sin-ae, born in 1968, started her career as a film journalist for the magazine KINO, but it is in 1999 that she joined the film industry, as a promotion coordinator for the critically acclaimed <Happy End> (1999) by JUNG Ji-woo, her husband. She then worked as the marketing manager of film production company LJ Films for most of the 2000s, handling the promotion of works as diverse as KIM Ki-duk’s award-winning <Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter And Spring> (20...More

KWAK Sin-ae, born in 1968, started her career as a film journalist for the magazine KINO, but it is in 1999 that she joined the film industry, as a promotion coordinator for the critically acclaimed <Happy End> (1999) by JUNG Ji-woo, her husband. She then worked as the marketing manager of film production company LJ Films for most of the 2000s, handling the promotion of works as diverse as KIM Ki-duk’s award-winning <Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter And Spring> (2003), dark comedy <A Bloody Aria> (2006) and prison melodrama <Maundy Thursday> (2006). She then left LF Films to make her producing debut with JUNG’s <Modern Boy> (2008). After a short spell at ShinCine, she was named co-CEO of video games and film company Barunson E&A, of which she would be in charge of the film production activities. As such, she has executive produced rom-com <Couples> (2011) and fantasy drama <VANISHING TIME: A BOY WHO RETURNED> (2016). She also offered some work to her brother KWAK Kyung-taek, as she proposed him to direct her own project <RV: Resurrected Victims> (2015). In 2018, she made the headlines for having made <Stay with Me> (2017), the first film to make use of both VR and 4DX technologies.Less