Roh Gyeong-tae | |
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Born | 1972 (age 51–52) |
Occupation(s) | Film producer, director, screenwriter |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 노경태 |
Revised Romanization | No Gyeong-tae |
McCune–Reischauer | Ro Kyŏng-t'ae |
Roh Gyeong-tae (born 1972) is a South Korean film producer, director and screenwriter. [1]
Born in 1972, Roh studied at KAIST and was a former stockbroker at Sam-Sung Securities Company. He later graduated with Master of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute. [2]
Roh made numerous experimental short films before he debuted with his first feature film The Last Dining Table in 2006. He emerged as a major talent with his second feature Land of Scarecrows (2008) which won and shared the New Currents Award with Masahide Ichii's Naked of Defenses at the 2008 Busan International Film Festival. [3]
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