LEE Eun is a producer and film director who built MK Pictures, a representative production company in Korea, with Jaime SHIM, the CEO of Myung Films. While Jaime SHIM and SHIM Bo-kyoung primarily pursued production and marketing at MK Pictures, LEE Eun was more deeply engaged in film financing. During the 1980s, working as a representative of the famous indie film collective, Changsankot Mae, he engaged in the social film movement by co-producing <The Night Before Strike&g...More

LEE Eun is a producer and film director who built MK Pictures, a representative production company in Korea, with Jaime SHIM, the CEO of Myung Films. While Jaime SHIM and SHIM Bo-kyoung primarily pursued production and marketing at MK Pictures, LEE Eun was more deeply engaged in film financing. During the 1980s, working as a representative of the famous indie film collective, Changsankot Mae, he engaged in the social film movement by co-producing <The Night Before Strike>, which addressed labor movements. The movies of MK Pictures, which dealt with Korean modern history and social issues, are reflections of LEE's experiences and philosophy. During the early days of MK Pictures, he was in charge of joint producing movies such as <The Contact> and <Joint Security Area/JSA> while also being active as a director himself. When MK Pictures merged with director KANG Je-kyu' Film Production, KANG Je-kyu Film later and was listed on Kosdaq as MK Pictures, LEE was in charge of production investment on <The President's Last Bang>, <A Bloody Aria> and <Forever the Moment>, and directly produced <The Isle>, <Desire>, and <Once Upon a Time in Seoul>. His interest in socially conscious filmmaking was kept up by his development of <A Little Pond>, which cinematized the <Nogunri incident>. When MK Pictures demerged, he went back to the CEO position of the old MK Pictures, Myung Films in 2010. Since then, LEE successfully financed their projects such as <Leafie, a Hen into the Wild> and <Architecture 101>. After the remarkable success of these films, LEE and SHIM established Myung Films Culture Foundation in 2012, a non-profit organization to nurture Korean cinema and the Korean film industry on a more firm ground. As the first step of the foundation, they opened a film institute to provide future film professionals more education opportunities through open lectures by masters of Korean filmmaking in various fields. Currently, LEE is the president of the Korean Film Producers Association (KFPA). Less