Born in 1971. He graduated from the Department of Film at the Seoul Institute of the Arts and then studied film directing at the National Film School in Łódź, Poland. His short film The Picnic (1999) won the Jury Prize in the Short Film Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, and his feature Flower Island (2001) won the Young Critics′ Award at the Venice Film Festival. His other directorial works include Spider Forest (2004), Magicians (2006), Time of the Dance (2009), and Always (2011).
