Kim Byung-woo
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- Film director
- film editor
- producer
- screenwriter
Kim Byung-woo | |
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| Born | 1980 (age 44–45) Busan, South Korea |
| Alma mater | Hanyang University |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 김병우 |
| RR | Gim Byeongu |
| MR | Kim Pyŏngu |
Kim Byung-woo (Korean: 김병우; born 1980) is a South Korean screenwriter and film director.[1][2][3][4] He is best known for directing the film The Terror Live (2013).
Kim majored in Theater & Film at Hanyang University.
On October 16, 2025, it was confirmed that Kim would marry actress and singer Hahm Eun-jung in November.[5] The couple married on November 30, 2025.[6]
Career
Kim is known for making inventive and self-funded films.[7]
In 2001, he made his first five-minute short film Cry on digital video on a shoestring budget.
In 2003, he made his feature debut when he was still a theatre and film student at Hanyang University. The film Anamorphic has the main character searching for a way out after passing through gates and doors into a shadowy netherworld. He self-funded the project at the cost of US$4,000.
In 2007, his second feature Written, propelled his standing in Korean independent cinema to a new level. Written is a film within a film where the lead character is caught in a hellish predicament when his fate as a character in a script is being determined by others. The self-funded film was shot on high-definition video and cost only US$15,000 to make.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Original title | Credited as | Notes | ||
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| Director | Writer | Producer | ||||
| 2001 | Cry | - | - | - | - | Short film |
| 2003 | Anamorphic | 아나모픽 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also editor |
| 2008 | Written | 리튼 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Also editor |
| 2013 | The Terror Live | 더 테러 라이브 | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2018 | Take Point | PMC: 더 벙커 | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2025 | Omniscient Reader: The Prophecy | 전지적 독자 시점 | Yes | Yes | No | [8] |
| The Great Flood | 대홍수 | Yes | Yes | No | [9] | |
