Cho Geun-hyun | |
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Born | South Korea |
Occupation |
Art director film director |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 조근현 |
Revised Romanization | Jo Geun-hyeon |
McCune–Reischauer | Cho Kǔn-hyŏn |
Cho Geun-hyun is a South Korean art director and film director. Cho is an award-winning art director before he switched to directing. His directorial debut, the hit drama thriller 26 Years (2012) with over 2.9 millions admissions, was voted Best Korean Film by Twitter users held by KOFIC in December 2012. He was internationally recognized for his second feature Late Spring (2014), which won a total of six awards, including Best Foreign Feature at the 23rd Arizona International Film Festival, Best Film at the 14th Milan International Film Festival Awards and Best Asian Narrative Film at the 13th Asian Film Festival of Dallas in 2014.