After first working on the production of <Teenage Coup d’Etat> in 1991, PARK Hae-jyun worked in a number of different capacities in the Korean film industry throughout the 1990s. He did lighting and editing on the 1993 mid-length feature <Goodbye Seoul Sinpa> and later worked as a cinematographer on <Lament> in 1997. He next scripted KANG Je-gyu’s 1999 blockbuster <Shiri>. That opportunity led to him to writing and directing his first film, <The...More

After first working on the production of <Teenage Coup d’Etat> in 1991, PARK Hae-jyun worked in a number of different capacities in the Korean film industry throughout the 1990s. He did lighting and editing on the 1993 mid-length feature <Goodbye Seoul Sinpa> and later worked as a cinematographer on <Lament> in 1997. He next scripted KANG Je-gyu’s 1999 blockbuster <Shiri>. That opportunity led to him to writing and directing his first film, <The Legend of Gingko> (2000), which was a sequel to KANG’s <The Gingko Bed> (1996). In 2002 he made his sophomore feature, the comedy <Oh! Lala Sisters>, while also working on the investment of PARK Jin-pyo’s <Too Young to Die>. His third feature was the romantic drama <How To Keep My Love>, which came in 2004. Next for PARK was the drama <You & You> in 2009. For PARK’s fifth film, he teamed up with Showbox to deliver the period action-comedy <The Huntresses>, starring HA Ji-won, KANG Ye-won and GAIN. Despite the Joseon Era Charlie’s Angels-like concept and the big cast, production delays and a lack of interest led to its under-performing at the box office in 2014. Nevertheless, the film was invited to screen at Montreal’s Fantasia Film Festival later that year.Less