Hong Sangsoo was born in Seoul in 1960. He entered Chung-Ang University in 1980 majoring in theater direction before switching his major to film, and subsequently studied film at the California Institute of the Arts and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since his first feature film, The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (1996), he has released a total of 34 feature films and made several short films. His 35th feature film, Nowhere to Lay My Eyes, has been invited to the international competition section of the Locarno Film Festival, marking his fifth time in the section following Our Sunhi (2013), Right Now, Wrong Then (2015), Hotel by the River (2018), and By the Stream (2024).
