While attending Korea National University of Arts, he directed several short films, including <Dancing cop Twist Kim> (2001) and <She is Zombie> (2001). Upon graduating, he debuted with <Educating Kidnappers> (2006) and continued to work with the scenarios for <Insadong Scandal> (2009) and <Perfect Number> (2012), the latter of which was an adaptation of Japanese novel <The Devotion of Suspect X>. KIM’s next film was the controversial &l...More

While attending Korea National University of Arts, he directed several short films, including <Dancing cop Twist Kim> (2001) and <She is Zombie> (2001). Upon graduating, he debuted with <Educating Kidnappers> (2006) and continued to work with the scenarios for <Insadong Scandal> (2009) and <Perfect Number> (2012), the latter of which was an adaptation of Japanese novel <The Devotion of Suspect X>. KIM’s next film was the controversial <Another Family> (2013), which debuted at the Busan International Film Festival. Taking aim at the poor work practices of Korean corporate giant Samsung, the film, which was partly funded through crowd funding, received a lot of media attention for its direct and critical examination of the corporation. The hardships he had encountered while trying to secure investments for <Another Family> initially convinced him to return to more commercial territory, but once he learned about the real-life story of a man wrongfully accused and imprisoned for the murder of a taxi driver in Iksan in 2000, he felt compelled to address the issue in another investigative film, <New Trial> (2016). Produced and released while the actual new trial was still ongoing, the film naturally drew a lot of interest from the media and the public and pulled in 2.4 million admissions, KIM’s biggest success to date.Less