CHO Hwa-seong is the representative of film art designer who bring to his films sensitivity that cannot be identified as any country or of any historical period. He made his debut in the late 1990s, but his heyday started in the mid-2000s. By working consecutively on the gore thriller I Saw The Devil(2010) and the Manchurian Western <The Good, the Bad, the Weird>(2008), he broke the preconception over genre image. He is best known for Sympathy for Lady Vengeance(2005), ...More

CHO Hwa-seong is the representative of film art designer who bring to his films sensitivity that cannot be identified as any country or of any historical period. He made his debut in the late 1990s, but his heyday started in the mid-2000s. By working consecutively on the gore thriller I Saw The Devil(2010) and the Manchurian Western <The Good, the Bad, the Weird>(2008), he broke the preconception over genre image. He is best known for Sympathy for Lady Vengeance(2005), whose set was unrealistically beautiful. He is credited for raising the movies degree of finish by a notch with his space work that conveyed the main characters unstable psychological state through retro-style arts of red and purple. In his subsequent works, <Black House>, <Woochi>, and <Private Eye>, he introduced a unique artistic concept of using a romantic style in a horror movie and an SF style in a history flick. He founded a studio, [HwaSeong Production Degign Company], which produced six art directors, and exercises great influence on Korean movie production.
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