Kim Hongsun, born in 1976, received an MFA degree from the Tisch School of Film & Television of New York University. Starting his career in television, he worked as an assistant director on many prominent TV series, such as <90 Days, Time to Love> (2006), <Working Mom> (2008), <Style> (2009) and <Dae Mul> (2010). He graduated to both the director’s chair and feature films with 2012’s gritty organ dealing thriller <Traffickers>. A solid pe...More

Kim Hongsun, born in 1976, received an MFA degree from the Tisch School of Film & Television of New York University. Starting his career in television, he worked as an assistant director on many prominent TV series, such as <90 Days, Time to Love> (2006), <Working Mom> (2008), <Style> (2009) and <Dae Mul> (2010). He graduated to both the director’s chair and feature films with 2012’s gritty organ dealing thriller <Traffickers>. A solid performer at the box office, <Traffickers> also earned Kim the Best New Director Award at the Blue Dragon Film Awards. He followed it up with the equally successful Kom Woobin-led crime caper <The Con Artists> in 2014. After another thriller in <The Chase> (2017), he moved back to television with the thriller series <Voice> (2017) and <The Guest> (2018) for the cable TV channel OCN. He then contributed to the recent surge in occult horror in Korean cinema with <Metamorphosis> (2019). In 2022, he gained international visibility as he took on the direction of the Netflix original series <Money Heist: Korea – Joint Economic Area>, the Korean adaptation of the hit Spanish caper series <Money Heist>, this one set against the backdrop of a unified Korea as a group of thieves try to take control of a jointly run mint. His latest project, the action film <Project Wolf Hunting> (2022) about a prisoner transfer between the Philippines and Korea gone wrong, premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival as part of its Midnight Madness program.Less