Kong Su-chang

Kong Su-chang
Born	1961 (age 55–56) South Korea
Alma mater	Hanyang University
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul	공수창
Revised Romanization	Gong Su-chang
McCune–Reischauer	Kong Su-ch'ang

Kong Su-chang (born 1961) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Kong started as a screenwriter and is behind hits such as White Badge (1992), The Ring Virus (1999) and Tell Me Something (1999). He debuted with the military-themed R-Point (2004), and then The Guard Post in 2008.

Born in 1961, Kong Su-chang graduated from the Korean Literature Department at Hanyang University. Upon graduating, he joined 'Jang San Got Mae', an independent film union and wrote screenplays, such as O Dreamland (1989) and The Night Before the Strike (1990).

Kong is known as a talented screenwriter of thriller and war movies, such White Badge (1992), The Ring Virus (1999) and Tell Me Something (1999). His adaptation of the novel White Badge: A Novel of Korea by Ahn Jung-hyo into the screenplay for White Badge was acclaimed as the best Vietnam War film in Korea.

His directorial feature debut is the military-themed R-Point (2004), which Kong wanted as an anti-war movie, delves into the innermost psyche of soldiers who have to fight for their lives in the face of inexplicable threats and horror on a remote battlefield in Vietnam in 1972. His second feature, The Guard Post (2008), also military-themed is set at the Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea.

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