Ahn Pan-seok

Ahn Pan-seok
Born	1961 (age 55–56) Seoul, South Korea
Alma mater	Sejong University
Occupation	Television director, film director
Years active	1991-present
Korean name
Hangul	안판석
Hanja	安判碩
Revised Romanization	An Pan-seok
McCune–Reischauer	An Pan-sŏk

Ahn Pan-seok (born November 1961) is a South Korean television director. Ahn directed the Korean dramas Roses and Bean Sprouts (1999), Ajumma (2000), Behind the White Tower (2007), A Wife's Credentials (2012), Secret Love Affair (2014), and Heard It Through the Grapevine (2015). He also directed the film Over the Border (2006).

Ahn Pan-seok was born in Seoul in 1961. He graduated from Sejong University with a degree in English Language and Literature. In 1986, he and fellow cinephiles from Sejong collaborated on the 22-minute short film In Praise of Idleness; the crew consisted of Yoo Ha as the director, Kim Sung-su as cinematographer, Ahn handled the lighting, and poet Jin Yi-jeong wrote the screenplay.

Ahn was hired by MBC's drama production division in 1987, then worked as an assistant director on Humble Men in 1991 and My Mother's Sea in 1993. He made his directorial debut in 1994 with Love Greetings, part of the single-episode anthology MBC Best Theater; he would go on to direct eight Best Theater episodes throughout the 1990s.

His first series as a production director (or "PD") was the weekend morning drama Partner (1994-1998), which was followed by the popular family dramas Roses and Bean Sprouts (1999) and Ajumma (2000-2001), and the romantic comedy I Love You, Hyun-jung (2002). He resigned from MBC in 2003 and became a freelancer, working on A Problem at My Younger Brother's House for SBS.

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