Park Gyutae, born in 1971, was majoring in journalism at Hanyang University when he first got into contact with films in college, after he decided to join the cinema club of the college in order to learn more about movies and try his hands at making them. As he directed several shorts as part of the club activities, before long he was convinced that he should pursue a career in films. After graduating, he took his first steps into the industry when he served as production coo...More

Park Gyutae, born in 1971, was majoring in journalism at Hanyang University when he first got into contact with films in college, after he decided to join the cinema club of the college in order to learn more about movies and try his hands at making them. As he directed several shorts as part of the club activities, before long he was convinced that he should pursue a career in films. After graduating, he took his first steps into the industry when he served as production coordinator on Lee Jangho’s <The Best Comedy Of Our Lives> (1995). After that, he started to write original scripts for comedy films and received his first credit as a screenwriter in <Baby Sale> (1997), soon followed by <The Great Chef> (1999). <Hi, Dharma> (2001), with its original proposition of pitting Buddhist monks against a group of gangsters, became his first commercial success as a screenwriter. He then moved to direction with the family drama <Bunt> (2007), and five years later, <Man of the Edge> (2012), for which he penned the original script, attracted close to 4 million spectators. Apart from some script adaptation stints on <Dad for Rent> (2013) and <Daddy You, Daughter Me> (2016), he remained absent from the screens for the past decade, until he made a surprise comeback in 2022, penning and directing <6/45>, which he dubbed as a “comical version of <Joint Security Area / JSA>”, with North and South Korean soldiers in the DMZ fighting over a winning lottery ticket.Less