Starting off as an assistant director, KIM Seong-hun took his first steps in the Korean film industry as an assistant director on the romantic comedies <Oh! Happy Day> in 2003 and then 2004’s <He Was Cool>. Two years later, he tackled his first feature with <How the Lack of Love Affects Two Men>. Starring BAEK Yoon-shik and BONG Tae-gyu, the film followed a father and son who go head to head when they both fall for their new basement tenant. Following its...More

Starting off as an assistant director, KIM Seong-hun took his first steps in the Korean film industry as an assistant director on the romantic comedies <Oh! Happy Day> in 2003 and then 2004’s <He Was Cool>. Two years later, he tackled his first feature with <How the Lack of Love Affects Two Men>. Starring BAEK Yoon-shik and BONG Tae-gyu, the film followed a father and son who go head to head when they both fall for their new basement tenant. Following its mediocre returns KIM had some trouble setting up his next project but after years of honing his sophomore script, he eventually released the blackly comic action-thriller <A Hard Day> in 2014. The film debuted at the Cannes Film Festival in the Director’s Fortnight section, where it received unanimously positive reviews. Featuring LEE Sun-kyun as a dirty cop who commits a hit and run on the way to his mother’s funeral and ends up hiding the body in her coffin, <A Hard Day> was a deliriously inventive twist on the Korean thriller which put a dirty cop against a mysterious and formidable foe, played by CHO Jin-woong, who is following his every action. The film was a box office hit, selling in excess of 3.4 million tickets, and receiving numerous industry accolades, including Best Director at the Daejong Film Awards.Less