HAN Dong-wook has long been involved in film production but he spent a long time working in production positions before ascending to the director’s chair. That career began as an assistant director on RYOO Seung-wan’s <Arahan> in 2004. He also served as an AD on RYOO’s next film <Crying Fist> before performing the same task on <Hey Man> and <Never Belong to Me> in 2006. Three years later he was involved in the 2nd unit production team of the spr...More

HAN Dong-wook has long been involved in film production but he spent a long time working in production positions before ascending to the director’s chair. That career began as an assistant director on RYOO Seung-wan’s <Arahan> in 2004. He also served as an AD on RYOO’s next film <Crying Fist> before performing the same task on <Hey Man> and <Never Belong to Me> in 2006. Three years later he was involved in the 2nd unit production team of the sprawling art film <Cafe Noir> and then made his own short the same year. Featuring LEE Byung-hun, <A Trip To The Heart-Warming Country of Korea> eventually screened at the Asiana International Short Film Festival. In 2010 he joined RYOO’s team as an AD once more on the <The Unjust>. He worked twice more as an assistant director on the back to back gangster films <Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time> (2012) and <New World> (2013) before finally landing his first directing gig. Financed by Next World Entertainment and released during the Lunar New Year in 2014, <Man in Love>, a romance-gangster hybrid, was a solid performer for the debut filmmaker. The film featured HWANG Jung-min, who HAN had worked with before on <The Unjust> and <New World>, as a mild-mannered gangster who falls for the daughter of one of the debtors he must shake down for payment.Less