Beak Woon-hak

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Beak Woon-hak
Born1962 (age 6162)
Other namesBaek Woon-hak
Alma mater Chung-Ang University
Occupation(s) Film director,
screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul
백운학
Revised Romanization Baek Un-hak
McCune–Reischauer Paek Un-hak

Beak Woon-hak (born 1962) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Beak wrote and directed the thrillers Tube (2003) and The Chronicles of Evil (2015).

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Career

Beak was a TV producer and an ad producer, being involved in 50 commercials from 1993 to 1996. In 1996, he was an assistant director on Channel 69 (1996) and three years later, he was involved in the scriptwriting and production of Kang Je-gyu's blockbuster Shiri (1999). His short Waist Bottle won the Grand Prize at the Shin-young Youth Film Festival in 2003. [1]

He made his directorial feature debut with the subway-set thriller Tube (2003).

His second feature The Chronicles of Evil (2015) starring Son Hyun-joo, also a thriller, was a hit with more than 2.1 million admissions. [2] [3] [4]

Filmography

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References

  1. "BEAK Woon-hak". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  2. "The Chronicles of Evil (2015)". Korean Film Biz Zone. Retrieved 2016-01-03.
  3. Jin, Eun-soo (15 May 2015). "Review: Never-ending suspense in Chronicles of Evil". Korea JoongAng Daily . Retrieved 17 May 2015.
  4. Won, Ho-jung (13 May 2015). "Herald Review: Chronicles of Evil a study of moral boundaries". The Korea Herald . Retrieved 17 May 2015.