KIM Tae-kyun is a veteran director with eight commercial feature films under his belt. In a career ranging from the early-1990s, he has tried his hand at a variety of genres within the realm of commercial filmmaking. <The Adventures of Mrs. Park>(1996) and <Shall We Kiss?>(1998) were romantic comedy, while <Volcano High>(2001) was a proactive experimentation in Korea’s budding special effect technologies. The movie introduced a number of young actors and...More

KIM Tae-kyun is a veteran director with eight commercial feature films under his belt. In a career ranging from the early-1990s, he has tried his hand at a variety of genres within the realm of commercial filmmaking. <The Adventures of Mrs. Park>(1996) and <Shall We Kiss?>(1998) were romantic comedy, while <Volcano High>(2001) was a proactive experimentation in Korea’s budding special effect technologies. The movie introduced a number of young actors and actresses who would grow up to be the leading men and women of many Korean movies later, namely, [KWON Sang-woo], [JANG Hyuk], [KONG Hyo-jin], and [SHIN Mina]. <Higanjima>(2009) was an attempt at attracting Japanese investment and actors into Korean projects. <Crossing>(2008) and < A Barefoot Dream>(2010) were Korea’s official entry for the Academy Awards for the category of best foreign-language films. KIM has shifted his long directorial focus from genre movies, and is now working on warm dramas. KIM next served as one of the producers on <INGtoogi: Battle of Internet Trolls>, a feature length work of his alma mater, the Korean Academy of Film Arts. He returned to the director’s chair with two films in 2014, first the erotic drama-thriller <Innocent Thing>, with JANG Hyuk, and later with <Bad Sister>, a Korea-China co-production made for the Mainland Chinese market.Less