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Filmmaker · South Korea

Jang Sun-woo

Jang Sun-woo was born in Seoul on 20 March 1952. According to the JoongAng Daily, he was expelled from school in his youth and turned to Buddhism before entering the anthropology department of Seoul National University. A critic and screenwriter, he moved into directing in 1986, with a realism mixed with sarcasm. One of his films received the Alfred Bauer Prize in Berlin in 1994, and several of his works from the late nineties caused scandal. After the costly failure of a 2002 film, he left Seoul in 2005 for Jeju Island.

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