Jason Kim

Jason Kim (born Kim Ju-hwan on 1981) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.[1]

In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.
Jason Kim
Born
Kim Ju-hwan

1981 (age 39–40)
Seoul, South Korea
Alma materGeorgetown University
OccupationFilm director, screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul
Revised RomanizationGim Ju-hwan
McCune–ReischauerKim Chu-hwan

Career

Kim, born in 1981, majored in international politics from Georgetown University in the United States. He served for three years as an interpreter in the Republic of Korea Air Force before joining Showbox's promotion department and later the film investment department. He dreams of making his own films and has made in his spare time youth drama films Goodbye My Smile (2010) and Koala (2013). He later quit his job to pursue his career in filmmaking. He spent three years working on the script of his first mainstream film Midnight Runners (2017) which became a hit in South Korea and was also screened overseas.[2]

Filmography
  • Goodbye My Smile (2010) - director
  • Koala (2013) - director, screenwriter[3]
  • A City of Sadness 2 (omnibus, 2016) - director
  • Retriever (short film, 2016) - director
  • Midnight Runners (2017) - director, screenwriter
  • The Divine Fury (2019) - director, screenwriter[4]

References
  1. "Jason KIM". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  2. "Midnight Runners to open in 12 foreign countries". Yonhap News Agency. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  3. Schwartz, William (20 May 2017). "[HanCinema's Film Review] Koala". Hancinema. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  4. Lee, Lily (28 March 2018). "[Lily's Take] Park Seo-joon and Woo Do-hwan Unite in New Movie". Hancinema. Retrieved 7 May 2018.



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