He won the Grand Prize for Detective at the 8th Makdongi Screenplay Competition in 2006, and the Excellence Award for Petty Romance at the Korean Film Council′s third-quarter Screenplay Market in 2007. He made a successful directorial debut with Petty Romance (2010), and went on to earn strong acclaim for films such as The Accidental Detective (2015) and The Pirates: The Last Royal Treasure (2022).
