Bong Joon ho

Bong Joonho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His films include South Korean hits Memories of Murder , based on a truelife serial murder case, monster movie The Host , and his first Englishlanguage film, science fiction adventure Snowpiercer .

Bong Joonho was born in Daegu in 1969 and decided to become a filmmaker while in middle school. His father was a designer and his grandfather was a noted author. He majored in sociology in Yonsei University in the late 1980s and was a member of the film club there. He was then a fan of Edward Yang, Hou Hsiaohsien and Shohei Imamura. In the early 1990s, he completed a twoyear program at the Korean Academy of Film Arts. While there, he made many 16mm short films. His graduation films Memory Within the Frame and Incoherence were invited to screen at the Vancouver and Hong Kong international film festivals. He also collaborated on several works with his classmates most notably as cinematographer on highly acclaimed short 2001 Imagine, directed by his friend Jang Joonhwan. Aside from cinematography on Hur Jaeyoungs short A Hat, Bong was also lighting director on an early short Sounds From Heaven and Earth by Choi Equan, and The Love of a Grape Seed.

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