Park Kwang-su

Park Kwang-su was born in 1955 in Sokcho, in Gangwon. A sculpture student at Seoul National University, he came to film through a Super 8 group, then joined the Seoul Film Group, linked to the student movement against the dictatorship. He later studied directing at a film school in Paris and, on his return, was an assistant to Lee Jang-ho. Regarded as a central figure of the Korean New Wave, he was in 1993 the first filmmaker in the country to found his own production company.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaChilsu and Mansu칠수와 만수Park Kwang-su · 1988Cinema