Park Chan-ok

Park Chan-ok
Born	1968 (age 48–49) Gurye County, South Jeolla Province, South Korea
Alma mater	Hanyang University Korea National University of Arts
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Years active	1995-present
Korean name
Hangul	박찬옥
Revised Romanization	Bak Chan-ok
McCune–Reischauer	Pak Ch'an-ok

Park Chan-ok (born 1968) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. She wrote and directed Jealousy Is My Middle Name (2003) and Paju (2009).

Born in 1968, Park Chan-ok majored in Theater and Film Studies at Hanyang University, then attended graduate school at Korea National University of Arts. She began her career in the independent film scene with production company Generation Blue Films, directing several award-winning short films. Her shorts include Cat Woman & Man (1995), To Be (1996) which won First Prize at the 1st Women's Film Festival in Seoul as well as the Audience Award at the Hanover Film Festival, Heavy (1998) which won the Sonje Award at the 3rd Busan International Film Festival, and Performance Experience (1999). She also served as assistant director on Jung Ji-woo's short A Bit Bitter (1996) and Hong Sang-soo's Virgin Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors (2000).

Park made her feature film debut with Jealousy Is My Middle Name, which drew critical acclaim and won the New Currents Award at the 7th Busan International Film Festival in 2002, Best Screenplay at the 24th Blue Dragon Film Awards, and the Tiger Award at the 32nd International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2003. Starring Moon Sung-keun, Bae Jong-ok and a star-making turn from Park Hae-il, the complex relationship drama is about a graduate student who starts working for the magazine editor-in-chief that his girlfriend dumped him for, while both men circle around a freelance photographer/veterinarian. Calling it an "impressive debut," Variety compared Park to her mentor Hong Sang-soo, one of Korea's leading auteurs, regarding the film's incisive portrayal of human emotions and its ironic, subtly humorous but insightful dialogue, but described her filmmaking style as "less detached."

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