Lee Kwang-hoon

Lee Kwang-hoon (born 1959) is a South Korean filmmaker who has directed four feature-length films.

Lee Kwang-hoon
Born1959
NationalitySouth Korean
OccupationFilmmaker
Known forGhost in Love
Korean name
Hangul
Revised RomanizationI Gwanghun
McCune–ReischauerRi Kwanghun

Education and career

Lee was born in South Korea in 1959, and studied at Sogang University for his Bachelor of Arts and in Ohio State University to get his Master of Arts. His first movie Doctor Bong was the biggest success in box office in Korea in 1995.[1]

Lee's 1999 film Ghost in Love (Jaguimo) was one of the leading films in the "new wave" of Korean cinema[2] around the turn of the millennium designed to produce blockbusters to rival Hollywood.[3]

In 2008 Lee was involved in controversy when he accused Kim Tae-kyun, the director of Crossing, of plagiarism.[4]

gollark: It depends what you want to do.
gollark: I mostly use TypeScript (JS with types), because my projects are web-based and I have no sanity.
gollark: As some person once said, "quidquid latine dictum sit altum videtur".
gollark: Now there's a lot more stuff called "physics", "mathematics" and "economics" so more specialization happens.
gollark: That was probably easier back when those fields were somewhat smaller.

References

  1. http://www.hancinema.net/korean_Lee_Kwang-hoon.php
  2. Leong, Anthony C. Y. (2003). Korean cinema: the new Hong Kong: a guidebook for the latest Korean new wave. Trafford Publishing. p. 139. ISBN 978-1-55395-461-3.
  3. Gateward, Frances K. (2007). Seoul searching: culture and identity in contemporary Korean cinema. SUNY Press. p. 55. ISBN 978-0-7914-7225-5.
  4. Han, Sunhee (7 August 2008). "S. Korea picks 'Crossing' for Oscars". Variety. Retrieved 25 January 2010.


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