CHO Eung-sung started out as a screenwriter for the educational TV channel EBS before moving to Daewon Entertainment, where he was put in charge of supervising the marketing in Korea of a number of Japanese animation films such as <The Cat Returns> (2002) and <Castle in the Sky> (1986). Thereafter, he became a producer of sports documentary, starting with the baseball documentary program <Dugout> for TV channel KBSN. He later gained his first recognition for...More

CHO Eung-sung started out as a screenwriter for the educational TV channel EBS before moving to Daewon Entertainment, where he was put in charge of supervising the marketing in Korea of a number of Japanese animation films such as <The Cat Returns> (2002) and <Castle in the Sky> (1986). Thereafter, he became a producer of sports documentary, starting with the baseball documentary program <Dugout> for TV channel KBSN. He later gained his first recognition for the trilogy of documentary films he produced, each revolving around Japanese citizens of Korean descent practicing a different sport: <One for All, All for One> (2013), <Strangers on the Field> (2014) and <A Crybaby Boxing Club> (2014). It is however his next film, <Moo-hyun, Tale of Two Cities> (2016), which looks back at the political career of the late Korean president ROH Moo-hyung, that became his biggest hit to date. Released by sheer luck just when Korean people were discovering a corruption scandal involving former president PARK Geun-hye, many felt nostalgia for ROH who had tried to tackle the issue of corruption among the political elite, and so the movie attracted close to 200,000 viewers, making it one of the most successful Korean documentaries of all time. For this film, CHO was named Best Producer by the then newly-established Producers Guild of Korean Awards, and it was rereleased the following year in a final cut version. In a move that surprised many, CHO came back in 2017 with a documentary about stray cats and the hostility they face in Korea, in comparison to way they are treated in Taiwan and Japan. The film marked his first time as a director.Less