Kim Hyun-seok (filmmaker)
| Kim Hyun-seok | |
|---|---|
| Born |
June 7, 1972 South Korea |
| Alma mater |
Yonsei University Chung-Ang University |
| Occupation | Film director, screenwriter |
| Years active | 1995-present |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김현석 |
| Revised Romanization | Gim Hyeon-seok |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Hyŏn-sŏk |
Kim Hyun-seok (born June 7, 1972) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kim wrote and directed YMCA Baseball Team (2002), When Romance Meets Destiny (2005), Scout (2007), Cyrano Agency (2010), and C'est Si Bon (2015). He also directed 11 A.M. (2013), and wrote If the Sun Rises in the West (1998) and Joint Security Area (2000).
Born in 1972, Kim Hyun-seok was a college student studying business administration at Yonsei University when he wrote the screenplay for A Good Day to Fall in Love. It was instantly turned into a 1995 film directed by Kwon Chil-in. His second screenplay Agency, written while Kim was doing his mandatory military service, won him Best New Screenwriter at the prestigious Grand Bell Awards, but it was never made into a film.
After that, Shim Jae-myung welcomed him to her production company Myung Films, and he wrote If the Sun Rises in the West (1998), which was directed by Lee Eun and starred Im Chang-jung and Ko So-young as a baseball umpire and an actress who fall in love. Kim also worked as assistant director on that film and Kim Ki-duk's The Isle (2000), as well as co-screenwriter on Park Chan-wook's Joint Security Area (2000).
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