Woo min-ho

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 우민호
Revised
Romanization 		U min-ho
McCune-
Reischauer 		U Minho

Woo Min-ho (* 1971 ) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter .

Life

Woo is a graduate of Chung-Ang University in film . During his time at Goldsmiths, University of London , he made his first short film, Who Killed Jesus? .

He is best known for his thriller Inside Men - The Revenge of Justice (2015). With over 9.1 million tickets sold, it is the most successful film in South Korean cinema history without a youth rating. For the film he received the prestigious Daejong film award in the categories of best director and best screenplay . In 2018, The Drug King, his next film about a crime syndicate, came out in Busan . In October 2018 filming began on the novel The Man Standing Next about the assassination attempt on Park Chung-hee , which was released in January 2020.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WOO Min-ho. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC, accessed February 1, 2019 .
  2. ^ Song Soon-jin: Is the Era of 10-million-admissions Opening for R-rated Movies? R-rated Movie Market Expands with INSIDE MEN. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC, February 11, 2016, accessed on January 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Winners Of The 53rd Grand Bell Awards Revealed. In: Soompi . December 27, 2016, accessed January 31, 2019 .
  4. ↑ INSIDE MEN Director and Star Reunite for CHIEFS OF NAMSAN. In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC, accessed February 1, 2019 .
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Woo is the family name here, Min-ho is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Woo, min-ho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 우민호 (Hangeul); U, Min-ho (revised romanization); U, Minho (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean film director
DATE OF BIRTH 1971