Born in 1968, LEE Eugene first worked as a creative director for an advertising agency, a job that allowed her to sometime be involved in the promotion of movie releases. After turning in her resignation letter, she moved into the film industry when she became head of the production department at Bom Film Productions in 1999, first producing <The Uninvited> (2003) and <Untold Scandal> (2003) and later serving as executive producer on the anthology <Three… Ex...More

Born in 1968, LEE Eugene first worked as a creative director for an advertising agency, a job that allowed her to sometime be involved in the promotion of movie releases. After turning in her resignation letter, she moved into the film industry when she became head of the production department at Bom Film Productions in 1999, first producing <The Uninvited> (2003) and <Untold Scandal> (2003) and later serving as executive producer on the anthology <Three… Extremes> (2004), the classic crime drama <A Bittersweet Life> (2005) and the melodrama <You Are My Sunshine> (2005). She then decided to go solo by founding Zip Cinema in 2006, through which she produced movies such as <Woochi> (2009) by CHOI Dong-hoon. Together with PARK Jin-pyo she produced a crime thriller, <Voice of a Murderer> (2007), winning the Best Woman in Film Award in the process. She also co-produced <Happiness> by HUR Jin-ho and <Antique> (2008) by MIN Kyu-dong, focusing on casting and marketing. LEE collaborated on the pre-production of KIM Jee-woon’s Hollywood project <The Last Stand> (2013). Building on the success of <Woochi>, which sold six million tickets, LEE cast GANG Dong-won again for the lead role in <Haunters> (2010). In 2012, she had another hit with the romantic comedy <All About My Wife> (2012), which attracted almost five million viewers. Her next work <Cold Eyes> (2013), is a thriller revolving around the surveillance section of a police precinct. She then gave director E J-young the chance to make his comeback in mainstream film with the family drama <My Brilliant Life> (2014). Her company was also behind the mystery thriller <The Priests> (2015) that defied box office trends to welcome 5.4 million moviegoers and put the occult horror genre on the map in the Korean industry. She has reached in 2016 her biggest success so far with the action drama <Master>, which scored 7.1 million admissions. Her more recent successes include the historical financial drama <Default> (2018), the anti-romcom <Crazy Romance> (2019), and the timely confinement-themed zombie film <#ALIVE> (2019), which helped Korean theaters recover from the slump caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and went on to be a popular released on Netflix.
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