A graduate from the Seoul National University’s Sculpture Art College, OH Seung-wook entered the film industry as an assistant director on PARK Kwang-su’s <To the Starry Island> in 1994. But he really made his mark when he co-wrote <Green Fish> (1997), the gangster drama with HAN Suk-kyu that was LEE Chang-dong’s first film. OH next wrote the landmark melodrama <Christmas in August> in 1998. Directed by HUR Jin-ho, the film also starred HAN and is now...More

A graduate from the Seoul National University’s Sculpture Art College, OH Seung-wook entered the film industry as an assistant director on PARK Kwang-su’s <To the Starry Island> in 1994. But he really made his mark when he co-wrote <Green Fish> (1997), the gangster drama with HAN Suk-kyu that was LEE Chang-dong’s first film. OH next wrote the landmark melodrama <Christmas in August> in 1998. Directed by HUR Jin-ho, the film also starred HAN and is now considered a classic of modern Korean cinema. The next year he wrote PARK Kwang-su’s film <The Uprising>. In 2000 he wrote yet another script, but this time he also had the opportunity to direct it. The result was <Kilimanjaro>, an off-kilter but acclaimed crime drama starring AHN Sung-ki and PARK Shin-yang. Alas, the film was not a success and he went back to screenwriting, penning the 2002 thriller <H> and later helping out with 2004’s period biopic <Rikidozan: A Hero Extraordinary>. It would be many years before he returned as a director, but in the meantime he worked as a professor at the Korean Academy of Film Arts, shepherding many of the new names leading the industry, such as JO Sung-hee. His sophomore film finally came in 2015. Distributed by CGV Arthouse, <The Shameless> features KIM Nam-gil as a detective who falls for the murder suspect, played by JEON Do-yeon, and was invited to the Un Certain Regard lineup of the Cannes Film Festival.Less