Park Kwang-hyun (film director)

Bae-jong
배종
Born
Park Kwang-hyun

(1969-08-21) August 21, 1969 (age 55)
EducationHongik University - Visual Design
Occupation(s)Film director, commercial director
Years active2002-present
Korean name
Hangul
배종
Revised RomanizationBae-jong
McCune–ReischauerBaejong
Birth name
Hangul
박광현
Revised RomanizationBak Gwang-hyeon
McCune–ReischauerPak Kwanghyŏn

Bae-jong (Korean배종; born Park Kwang-hyun on August 21, 1969)[1] is a South Korean commercial and film director.[2] He is best known for co-writing and directing the 2005 critical and commercial hit Welcome to Dongmakgol.

Early life

Park Kwang-hyun grew up in the countryside with his grandmother. When he was in primary school, he began watching his first films, like Superman and Robot Taekwon V, and fell in love with the art of cinema. He would talk about films with his friends all day, and go to the movie theater any chance he got.[3]

Career

For his college degree, Park studied Visual Design at Hongik University.[4] The Hongdae area is known as one of the most diverse and important spots in Korea when it comes to music and arts, many indie bands go through Hongdae clubs before becoming famous, and many artists, designers and writers emerged from this environment.[3]

After graduation, Park started his own company with a few friends, and went on to become one of the most acclaimed figures in the CF (Commercial Film) field. He shot several famous commercials with top stars, from Kyobo Life with Choi Min-sik, to the McDonald's "Don't bet your life" series with Shin Ha-kyun and Im Won-hee.[4][3]

While going to work, he kept writing his own script, in the hope that one day it would turn into his first feature. Then, all of a sudden, he approached playwright/filmmaker Jang Jin in 2001, saying he was a fan and wanted him to read his script. Jang welcomed young Park into his production company Film It Suda, which featured mostly theater-trained actors and directors. He was the oddity in Jang's group, the sole "style man" out of all those people mostly concerned with dialogue and situation-based drama or comedy.[3]

In 2002 Park directed My Nike (내 나이키), considered the best short film in the Film It Suda omnibus No Comment (묻지마 패밀리). Told from the POV of a young junior high school student (Ryu Deok-hwan) from an urban lower-middle-class family whose greatest desire in the world is to own a pair of Nike sneakers, its authentic but droll character observations remain surprisingly warm and touching. Underlying them is a sense of pathos about class differences based on consumption patterns of the '80s, when Korea was first becoming an out-and-out consumer society and its people were beginning to be defined by what they buy and own.[5] My Nike had a wonderful sense of nostalgia, based on Park's own childhood memories as a teenager growing up in 1980s Korea and tinted with fantasy (with an homage to E.T.).[3]

Jang Jin was so impressed with Park's cinematic humanism he gave him a script for a new project, an adaptation of one of his stage plays, Welcome to Dongmakgol. Set during the Korean War in 1950, soldiers from both the North and South, as well as an American pilot, find themselves in a secluded village, its residents largely unaware of the outside world.[6] Park's first feature film Welcome to Dongmakgol attracted more than 8 million viewers in 2005, making it the second highest-grossing movie that year and among Korean box office's highest of all time.[3]

Park's long-gestating second feature was originally titled Kwon Bob (권법), with Jo In-sung cast as a high school student with superhuman strength who battles injustice in a small town, but it was delayed when investor CJ Entertainment pulled out after the box office failure of Sector 7 in 2011. The project was revived in 2013, and the sci-fi fantasy blockbuster, retitled The Fist, is the largest Korea-China co-production yet with 30% of the US$20 million budget coming from the China Film Group and Pegasus & Taihe Entertainment.[7][8]

Filmography

Short film

Short films credits
Year Title Credited as Ref.
English Korean Director Writer Producer
2002 No Comment — My Nike 묻지마 패밀리 — 내 나이키 Yes No No
2017 The Fist (2016) Yes No No
2017 Spiderman 거미맨 Yes No No Part of JTBC All Spectators Program
2018 My Dream Class Yes No No

Film

Feature films credits
Year Title Credited as Ref.
English Korean Director Writer Producer
2005 Welcome to Dongmakgol 웰컴 투 동막골 Yes Yes No
2017 Fabricated City 조작된 도시 Yes No No

Web series

Web series credits
Year Title Role Notes Ref.
English Korean
2022–2023 Island 아일랜드 Director Part 1–2 [9]

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations
Year Group Category Nominated Work Result
2002 New York Festival International Advertising Awards Gold Medal Park Kwang-hyun Won
Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival Silver Lion, Fast Food category Won
2005 26th Blue Dragon Film Awards Best Film Welcome to Dongmakgol Nominated
Best New Director Nominated
Best Screenplay Nominated
Audience Choice Award for Most Popular Film Won
4th Korean Film Awards[10] Best Film Welcome to Dongmakgol Won
Best Director Won
Best New Director Won
Best Screenplay Won
2006 42nd Baeksang Arts Awards Best New Director Welcome to Dongmakgol Nominated
29th Golden Cinematography Awards Best New Director Welcome to Dongmakgol Won
43rd Grand Bell Awards Best Film Welcome to Dongmakgol Nominated
Best New Director Nominated
Best Screenplay[a] Nominated

Notes

  1. ^ Jang Jin, Park Kwang-hyun, and Kim Joong

References

  1. ^ He shares a name with actor Park Gwang-hyun (born October 11, 1977) creating some confusion over the director's date of birth as listed in the IMDb.
  2. ^ "Cine21 Database — Bae-jong".
  3. ^ a b c d e f "K-FILM REVIEWS: 웰컴 투 동막골 (Welcome To Dongmakgol)". Twitch Film. January 16, 2006. Archived from the original on January 5, 2013. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  4. ^ a b "Director Park Gwang-hyun, 'Welcome to my movies'". KBS Global. December 7, 2005. Archived from the original on February 19, 2013. Retrieved 2012-12-17.
  5. ^ Kim, Kyu Hyun. "No Comment". Koreanfilm.org. Archived from the original on 2015-09-16. Retrieved 2012-08-05.
  6. ^ "웰컴 투 동막골 (Welcome To Dongmakgol) Press Screening Report". Twitch Film. 20 July 2005. Archived from the original on 5 January 2013. Retrieved 2012-11-18.
  7. ^ Lee, Hyo-won (17 June 2013). "CJ E&M Unveils Largest-Ever Korea-China Co-Production". The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 2014-01-30. Retrieved 2014-02-08.
  8. ^ Kim, Hee-eun (1 March 2014). "Yeo Jin-goo makes a Fist". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on 2014-02-28. Retrieved 2014-03-02.
  9. ^ Shim Eom-kyung (September 28, 2021). "김남길·이다희·차은우·성준, '아일랜드' 출연 확정…2022년 방송[공식]" [Kim Nam-gil, Da-hee, Cha Eun-woo, and Seong-jun confirmed to appear in 'Island'... Broadcast in 2022 [Official]]. Spotify News (in Korean). Archived from the original on October 5, 2021. Retrieved September 28, 2021 – via Naver.
  10. ^ "Welcome To Dongmakgol wins best picture award". KBS Global. 5 December 2005. Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 2012-12-17.

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