Bong Joon-ho

This is a Korean name; the family name is Bong.

Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho at the Independent Spirit Awards in Los Angeles, March 5, 2010
Born	September 14, 1969 (1969-09-14) (age 42) Daegu, South Korea
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter

Korean name
Hangul	봉준호
Hanja	奉俊昊
Revised Romanization	Bong Jun-ho
McCune–Reischauer	Pong Chunho

Bong Joon-ho (Hangul: 봉준호; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

1 Biography
2 Filmography
- 2.1 Director
- 2.2 Writer
3 Awards
- 3.1 Recurring Cast in Bong Joon-ho's Films
4 See also
5 References
6 External links

Biography

He was born in Daegu in 1969 and decided to become a filmmaker while in middle school, perhaps influenced by an artistic family (his father was a designer and his grandfather was a noted author.) He majored in sociology in Yonsei University in the late 1980s and was a member of the film club there. He liked Edward Yang, Hou Hsiao-hsien and Imamura Shohei at the time. In the early 1990s, he completed a two-year program at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. While there, he made many 16mm short films and his graduation work Memory in the Frame and Incoherence was invited to screen at the Vancouver and Hong Kong international film festivals.

In 1994 he directed the short film White People. His first feature film Barking Dogs Never Bite, part comedy and part cruel social satire, in 2000 had a low box office record but he became widely known in his home country for the next film Memories of Murder, based on the true story of the country's first known serial murders, in 2003. He attained both commercial success and critical acclaim through this film. The Host in 2006 was seen by a record ten million people in the country and was well received by the Cannes Festival. An amusing anecdote is told of him about The Host. In high school, he saw an unusual creature hanging down from a Han River bridge in Seoul and decided to make a monster film.

In 2008, he participated in the omnibus movie Tokyo ! (segment "Shaking Tokyo") with Michel Gondry and Leos Carax.

His most recent film is Mother, the story of a mother who struggles to save her son from a murder accusation, which premiered in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes Film Festival in 2009. He is planning to direct Le Transperceneige, an adaption of Jean-Marc Rochette and Jacques Loeb's graphic novel of the same name.

In 2011, Bong was announceded as a member of World Dramatic Jury for 27th Sundance Film Festival. He has been announced as the head of the jury for the Caméra d'Or section of the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]