Bong Joon-ho
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| Bong Joon-ho | |
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| Hangul: |
봉준호
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| Revised Romanization: | Bong Jun-ho |
| McCune-Reischauer: | Pong Chunho |
Bong Joon-ho (b. September 14, 1969 in Seoul) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He is a graduate of the Korean Academy of Film Arts. Bong directed multiple critically-acclaimed short films before his feature film debut Barking Dogs Never Bite in 2000. He is probably best known for his 2003 film Memories of Murder, for which he won the South Korean film industry's Grand Bell Award for best film director.
Like another Korean director Park Chan-wook, Bong is a partisan of Democratic Labor Party, a minor leftist party in South Korea.
[edit] Filmography
[edit] Director
- Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
- Memories of Murder (2003)
- The Host (2006)
[edit] Writer
- Phantom: The Submarine (1999)
- Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
- Memories of Murder (2003)
- Antarctic Journal (2005)
[edit] References
- (Korean) Naver biographical information
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