Choi Ha-won

Korean spelling
Hangeul	최하원
Hanja	崔 夏 園
Revised Romanization	Choe Ha-won
McCune- Reischauer	Ch'oe Hawon
See also : Korean name

Choi Ha-won (* 1937 ) is a South Korean film director . He has directed over 25 feature films and also wrote the script for six films.

After graduating from Yonsei University with a degree in Korean literature and language , he made his first feature film, Namdeul bitale seoda (1968).

Ha-won made his most famous films with literary adaptations in the late 1960s and 1970s. The drama Dokjitneun neulgeuni (독 짓는 늙은이) was based on a short story by Hwang Soon-won. It was released in 1969 and, as a South Korean entry at the 1970 Academy Awards , could hope for a nomination for " best foreign language film ", but was ultimately not nominated. The film is about a lonely potter who one day saves the life of a young woman and then marries her; When the woman later goes away with another man, leaving the potter and their son, the potter commits suicide. As in Munyeodo (1972), the director dealt with religious themes here.

Choi sees (Jeoljeong) (1978) as his most important work . This was not like most South Korean films at the time based on a literary model, but based on an original script by Lee Hui-wu . The film Chodaebadeun saramdeul (초대 받은 성웅 들) won the 1981 award for "best film" at the Daejong Film Festival . In 1990, after his film Hwarang dae (화랑대), he retired from the film business.

The director was also a board member of the Korean Film Council and a professor at the Korean Academy of Film Arts .

Web links

• Choi Ha-won in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.koreafilm.org/feature/100_48.asp
2. ↑ ^{a b}  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )
3. ↑ http://www.koreafilm.org/feature/home_2003_10.asp
4. ↑  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Choi is the family name here, Ha-won is the first name.