Jason Kim

{{Short description|South Korean film director and screenwriter}}

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| name = Jason Kim

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| birth_name = Kim Ju-hwan

| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1981}}

| birth_place = Seoul, South Korea

| occupation = Film director, screenwriter

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| alma_mater = Georgetown University

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| hangul = 김주환

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| rr = Gim Juhwan

| mr = Kim Chuhwan

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Jason Kim (born 1981), birth name Kim Ju-hwan ({{Korean|hangul=김주환}}), is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.{{cite web|title=Jason KIM|url=http://koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/films/index/peopleView.jsp?peopleCd=20112387|website=Korean Film Council|accessdate=7 May 2018}}

Career

Kim, born in 1981, majored in international politics from Georgetown University 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.{{cite web|url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/kwave/2017/08/16/3001000000AEN20170816001900315.html|title=Midnight Runners to open in 12 foreign countries|accessdate=7 May 2018|date=16 August 2017|publisher=Yonhap News Agency}}

Filmography

Goodbye My Smile (2010) - director
Koala (2013) - director, screenwriter{{cite web|last=Schwartz|first=William|title=[HanCinema's Film Review] Koala|url=https://www.hancinema.net/hancinema-s-film-review-koala-106147.html|website=Hancinema|accessdate=7 May 2018|date=20 May 2017}}
Retriever (short film, 2016) - director
Midnight Runners (2017) - director, screenwriter
The Divine Fury (2019) - director, screenwriter{{cite web|last=Lee|first=Lily|title=[Lily's Take] Park Seo-joon and Woo Do-hwan Unite in New Movie|url=https://www.hancinema.net/lily-s-take-park-seo-joon-and-woo-do-hwan-unite-in-new-movie-117071.html|website=Hancinema|accessdate=7 May 2018|date=28 March 2018}}
My Heart Puppy (2023) - director, screenwriter{{cite web|url=https://n.news.naver.com/entertain/movie/article/003/0011659279 |title= 차태현·유연석 새 영화 '멍뭉이' 3월1일 개봉|trans-title= Cha Tae-hyun and Yoo Yeon-seok's new movie 'Puppy' to be released on March 1st|author= Son Jung-bin |work= Newsis |publisher=Naver |date=January 26, 2023|access-date=January 26, 2023|language=ko}}
Bloodhounds (2023) - Netflix original series, director, screenwriter
Officer Black Belt (2024) - Netflix original film, director, screenwriter

References

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Category:1981 births

Category:Living people

Category:South Korean film directors

Category:South Korean screenwriters

Category:Georgetown University alumni