Park Suk-young

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Park Suk-young
Born1973 (age 5051)
Seoul, South Korea
Occupation(s) Film director, screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul
박석영
Revised Romanization Bak Seokyeong
McCune–Reischauer Pak Sŏkyŏng

Park Suk-young (born 1973) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

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Personal life

Born in 1973, Park studied Korean Literature at Sogang University and Cinema at the Columbia University in New York. He worked as an actor and assistant director in director Jeon Kye-soo's 2010 film Lost & Found before directing his first feature Wild Flowers in 2015. He followed with Steel Flower in 2015 and made his third film Ash Flower in 2016, thus completing his "Flower Trilogy" which deals with the theme of "teenagers in crisis". [1] [2] [3]

Filmography

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References

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