Borned in 1966, CHOO Chang-min first worked on <Film-Making> (1997) as a production assistant and later on <City of The Rising Sun> (1998) as a script supervisor, before contributing to the screenplay of dark comedy <The Happy Funeral Director> (1999, directed by CHANG Mun-il). His first short film, <The End of April> (2000), was invited to several international film festivals. CHOO made his feature film debut with <Mapado: Island of Fortunes> (2...More

Borned in 1966, CHOO Chang-min first worked on <Film-Making> (1997) as a production assistant and later on <City of The Rising Sun> (1998) as a script supervisor, before contributing to the screenplay of dark comedy <The Happy Funeral Director> (1999, directed by CHANG Mun-il). His first short film, <The End of April> (2000), was invited to several international film festivals. CHOO made his feature film debut with <Mapado: Island of Fortunes> (2004). He found success with the elderly melodrama <Late Blossom> (2010), which took off through positive word of mouth and drew to theaters an audience that had long been neglected by the Korean film industry. This was nothing, however, compared to the critical and commercial success of his following film the period drama <Masquerade> (2012). It reached 12.3 million admissions, the second highest score ever in Korea at the time, and literally swiped the award season, winning 15 of the 24 categories at the Grand Bell Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. He came back six years later with the thriller <Seven Years of Night> (2018), based on a novel by JUNG Yoo-jung. Less