KIM graduated from the Department of Theater and Cinema in Hanyang University. He was cinematographer on the short film Hibernation (1998, JUNG Yoon-chul) and several feature films, such as Flower Island (2001, SONG Il-gon) and Wanee & Junah (2001, KIM Yong-kyun). His directorial debut, For `HANA` (2003), concentrated on Korean-Japanese students of the Chosen school in Japan. In Our School , he deals with the issues of Korean residents in Japan with more serious and c...More

KIM graduated from the Department of Theater and Cinema in Hanyang University. He was cinematographer on the short film Hibernation (1998, JUNG Yoon-chul) and several feature films, such as Flower Island (2001, SONG Il-gon) and Wanee & Junah (2001, KIM Yong-kyun). His directorial debut, For `HANA` (2003), concentrated on Korean-Japanese students of the Chosen school in Japan. In Our School , he deals with the issues of Korean residents in Japan with more serious and considerate point of view than his previous work. KIM next made the documentary <Our School> (2007), about 3rd and 4th generation Koreans living in Japan, before going back to mainstream sets as a director of photography for <The Sword with No Name> (2008), <Be With Me> (2010) and <Two Weddings and a Funeral> (2012). Continuing his focus on Koreans that have grown up in Japan, KIM made the baseball-themed documentary <Strangers on the Field>, which debuted at the Busan International Film Festival in 2014 and started as a pitching project in Jeonju in 2010.
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