Jason Kim (born Kim Ju-hwan on 1981) is a South Korean

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

and

screenwriter A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. ...

Career

Kim, born in 1981, majored in international politics from

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

in the United States. He served for three years as an interpreter in the Republic of Korea Air Force before joining Showbox's promotion department and later the film investment department. He dreams of making his own films and has made in his spare time youth drama films ''Goodbye My Smile'' (2010) and ''Koala'' (2013). He later quit his job to pursue his career in filmmaking. He spent three years working on the script of his first mainstream film '' Midnight Runners'' (2017) which became a hit in South Korea and was also screened overseas.

Filmography

*''Goodbye My Smile'' (2010) - director *''Koala'' (2013) - director, screenwriter *''Retriever'' (short film, 2016) - director *'' Midnight Runners'' (2017) - director, screenwriter *''

The Divine Fury ''The Divine Fury'' () is a 2019 South Korean action horror film written and directed by Kim Joo-hwan. It stars Park Seo-joon, Ahn Sung-ki and Woo Do-hwan. The film was released on July 31, 2019. Plot The film tells the story of Yong-hoo (Park ...

'' (2019) - director, screenwriter * ''

My Heart Puppy ''My Heart Puppy'' () is a 2022 South Korean film directed by Jason Kim, starring Yoo Yeon-seok and Cha Tae-hyun. The film revolves around two men who are going to be separated from their family-like pet dog, and their journey to find a new own ...

'' (2023) - director, screenwriter * ''

Bloodhounds The bloodhound is a large scent hound, originally bred for hunting deer, wild boar and, since the Middle Ages, for tracking people. Believed to be descended from hounds once kept at the Abbey of Saint-Hubert, Belgium, in French it is called, ''l ...

'' (2023) - Netflix original series, director, screenwriter

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* * 1981 births Living people South Korean film directors South Korean screenwriters Georgetown University alumni {{SouthKorea-film-director-stub