Jo Jin-kyu

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Jo Jin-kyu
Born1960 (age 6364)
Occupation(s) Film director
television director
Korean name
Hangul
조진규
Revised Romanization Jo Jin-gyu
McCune–Reischauer Cho Chin-kyu

Jo Jin-kyu (born 1960) is a South Korean film director. Jo's directorial debut was the hit gangster comedy My Wife Is a Gangster (2001). He returned to the series with My Wife Is a Gangster 3 in 2006. [1] In 2016, he directed a joint Korean-Chinese film Sweet Sixteen (2016) starring Joo Won. [2] [3]

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References

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