Born in 1973, Lee Hanjong graduated from the Seoul Institute of The Arts in film before debuting as an assistant director for <Scent of Love>, directed by Kim Sooyong. With his short <Lucked Out>, he won the Grand Prix at the Daegu Independent Short Film Festival and a Jangling Coin Award at the Jeongdongjin Independent Film Festival. He followed this up with the short <Working Day> (2014), about a police officer on his last day on the job who volunteers to ...More

Born in 1973, Lee Hanjong graduated from the Seoul Institute of The Arts in film before debuting as an assistant director for <Scent of Love>, directed by Kim Sooyong. With his short <Lucked Out>, he won the Grand Prix at the Daegu Independent Short Film Festival and a Jangling Coin Award at the Jeongdongjin Independent Film Festival. He followed this up with the short <Working Day> (2014), about a police officer on his last day on the job who volunteers to respond to a suicide attempts. After presenting <Blues with Me> (2015) at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Lee worked on the middle-length fantasy comedy musical <DAEMUGA>, which follows a young man struggling to land a job who decides to take a 10-week intensive course at a private shamanism school. The film is notable for blending shamanist lyrics and rap music for its exorcism scenes. Lee decided to expand on this idea for his feature debut of the same name, which was released in 2022.Less