Hanyang University graduate KIM Sang-jin, who was born in 1967, got his start in the Korean film industry in the early 1990s, working as an assistant director on films such as <Who Saw the Dragon's Claws?> (1991) and <Teenage Love Song> (1991) before working on the KANG Woo-suk film <Two Cops> (1993) and <How to Top My Wife> (1994). The following year he kicked off his directing career with the genre title <Millions in My Account>, which he quick...More

Hanyang University graduate KIM Sang-jin, who was born in 1967, got his start in the Korean film industry in the early 1990s, working as an assistant director on films such as <Who Saw the Dragon's Claws?> (1991) and <Teenage Love Song> (1991) before working on the KANG Woo-suk film <Two Cops> (1993) and <How to Top My Wife> (1994). The following year he kicked off his directing career with the genre title <Millions in My Account>, which he quickly followed with <The Rules of a Gangster> (1996). In 1998 he directed <Two Cops 3>, the final film in KANG’s franchise.

KIM’s time to truly shine came in 1999, with the release of his anarchic youth comedy <Attack the Gas Station>, now seen as one of the defining films of the early days of the Korean film renaissance. Establishing his own brand of frenzied comedy and storming the charts at the same time, KIM embarked on a series of hit comedies. With leading man CHA Seung-won, KIM topped the charts again and again with gang comedy <Kick the Moon> (2001), prison comedy <Jail Breakers> (2002) and horror comedy <Ghost House> (2004). After expanding his activities into financing, for the hit period film <King and the Clown> (2005), KIM returned to the director’s chair for the geriatric crime comedy <Kidnapping Granny K> (2007), the sequel <Attack the Gas Station 2> (2010) and sports dramedy <Pitch High> (2011). After a longer than usual hiatus, KIM returned with the summer road comedy <Three Summer Night> in 2015.Less