Born in 1970 in Seoul, LEE Soo-yeon first graduated in educational technology before studying film at the Korean Academy of Film Arts and later at the Film Graduate School of Chung-Ang University. After directing several short films in the latter half of the 1990s such as <Survival Game> (1995), <Refrigerator Story> (1998) and <La> (1998), she won the Excellence Award for Best Picture (2nd prize) at the Seoul Independent Film Festival as well as at the Busan...More

Born in 1970 in Seoul, LEE Soo-yeon first graduated in educational technology before studying film at the Korean Academy of Film Arts and later at the Film Graduate School of Chung-Ang University. After directing several short films in the latter half of the 1990s such as <Survival Game> (1995), <Refrigerator Story> (1998) and <La> (1998), she won the Excellence Award for Best Picture (2nd prize) at the Seoul Independent Film Festival as well as at the Busan International Short Film Festival with her medium-length drama film <The Goggles> (2000). She made her feature debut in 2003 with the psychological horror film <The Uninvited> (2003), notable for being the first film to cast Gianna JUN after <My Sassy Girl> (2001) propelled her to international stardom. Despite the mixed reception, the film allowed her to pick up Best New Film Director at the Baeksang Arts Awards. She would spend the next seven years working on a project for her second feature that she would eventually abandon, deeming it too ambitious. Apart from the short <The Rabbit> (2008) and the segment <E.D. 571> in anthology film <Modern Family>, to which also contributed SHIN Su-won and HONG Ji-young, she had to wait until 2017 to return to the big screen, with the psychological thriller <Bluebeard> (2017). Starring CHO Jin-woong as the lead, it established a new opening record for a Korean film released in March. Less