LEE Won-tae is an author, screenwriter, film producer and film director. After more than ten years of experience as a producer on TV network MBC, he quit his job and founded the company Wontak in collaboration with writer Kim Tak-hwan, with the aim to publish novels and provide screenplays and treatments to film studios. Together, they came up with the concept of “movels”, namely novels that are written with their movie adaptations already in mind. The first such project ...More

LEE Won-tae is an author, screenwriter, film producer and film director. After more than ten years of experience as a producer on TV network MBC, he quit his job and founded the company Wontak in collaboration with writer Kim Tak-hwan, with the aim to publish novels and provide screenplays and treatments to film studios. Together, they came up with the concept of “movels”, namely novels that are written with their movie adaptations already in mind. The first such project that they have carried out is <The Magician>, which hit theaters in 2015. LEE Won-tae also produced rom-com <Spellbound> and led the development of <Papa> (2012) and <Gabi> (2012), while also pitching a few concepts of TV programs. In 2017, he moved to film directing with <MAN OF WILL>.Less