Born in 1929, KIM Soo-yong is a legendary senior figure in Korea’s film industry. He made his debut in 1958 with <A Henpecked Husband> and directed more than 100 movies through 1999 with <Scent of Love>. He made many popular commercial films of the past decades, such as <Sorrow in the Heavens>(1965) as well as some 50 literary movies based on popular Korean novels such as <The Seashore Village>(1965) and < The Foggy Town>(1967). In his later y...More

Born in 1929, KIM Soo-yong is a legendary senior figure in Korea’s film industry. He made his debut in 1958 with <A Henpecked Husband> and directed more than 100 movies through 1999 with <Scent of Love>. He made many popular commercial films of the past decades, such as <Sorrow in the Heavens>(1965) as well as some 50 literary movies based on popular Korean novels such as <The Seashore Village>(1965) and < The Foggy Town>(1967). In his later years, Kim Soo-yong served as an administrator in various capacity. He was the first movie director to serve as the president of the prestigious [The National Academy of Arts]. As the chairman of Korea Media Rating Board from 1998 for six years, he helped relax the censorship criteria on movies. Thanks to this, movies with highly sexual contents such as <Lies> by [JANG Sun-woo] and <Too Young to Die> by [PARK Jin-pyo] could be released without much commotion.Less