CHO Kyung-hun was a member of a comic appreciation club led him to come into contact with animation, which immediately became his passion. Having heard that many animation works were subcontracted in Korea, he set out to work in that industry and went to the Hankyoreh Cultural Center, which had just started offering a new animation curriculum. There, he created with other students an independent animation collective, Animal. Among them was director GOO Bong-hee, with whom CHO...More

CHO Kyung-hun was a member of a comic appreciation club led him to come into contact with animation, which immediately became his passion. Having heard that many animation works were subcontracted in Korea, he set out to work in that industry and went to the Hankyoreh Cultural Center, which had just started offering a new animation curriculum. There, he created with other students an independent animation collective, Animal. Among them was director GOO Bong-hee, with whom CHO would later join hands to formally establish the animation house Studio Animal in 2000. Their first film together was a Flash animation called <Revenge Impossible> that was put online in 2001. Among the shows they have since produced are the animated series <Medical Island> in 2003, <Ghost Messenger> in 2010 and <Hanging on!> in 2014. They also ventured into video games and webtoons, and notably contributed animated cinematics to the phenomenon Korean MMO video game Maple Story. In 2020, CHO directed and edited the animation feature <Beauty Water> (2020), adapted from an episode of OH Seong-dae’s webtoon <Tales of the Unusual>. The film was screened at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, the Annecy International Animated Film Festival and the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival.Less