Director CHO Dong-ho spent his early years in the industry as part of the directing team for the works of filmmaker KIM Sung-su. He participated in late 90s classics such as Beat (1997) and City of the Rising Sun (1998), as well as KIM’s subsequent films Musa: The Warrior (2001) and Please Teach Me English (2003). CHO was also the assistant director on the submarine thriller Phantom: The Submarine in 1999. In 2006 he made his debut as a filmmaker with the romantic fantasy ...More

Director CHO Dong-ho spent his early years in the industry as part of the directing team for the works of filmmaker KIM Sung-su. He participated in late 90s classics such as Beat (1997) and City of the Rising Sun (1998), as well as KIM’s subsequent films Musa: The Warrior (2001) and Please Teach Me English (2003). CHO was also the assistant director on the submarine thriller Phantom: The Submarine in 1999. In 2006 he made his debut as a filmmaker with the romantic fantasy The Restless, starring JUNG Woo-sung and KIM Tae-hee. Seven years later, he followed this up with the action thriller Running Man, starring SHIN Ha-gyun, which has the distinction of being the first Korean film fully financed by a foreign studio (20th Century Fox).Less