Kwak Jae-yong

{{Short description|South Korean film director}}

{{BLP sources|date=June 2019}}

{{family name hatnote|Kwak||lang=Korean}}

{{Infobox person

| image = Kwak Jae-yong.2011.jpg

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|05|22|df=y}}

| occupation = Film director,
screenwriter

| alma_mater = Kyung Hee University

| module = {{Infobox Korean name|child=yes|headercolor=transparent

| hangul =곽재용

| hanja = {{linktext|郭|在|容|}}

| rr = Gwak Jae-yong

| mr = Kwak Chaeyong

}}

}}

Kwak Jae-yong (born 22 May 1959) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He studied physics at Kyung Hee University. He achieved success with his debut film Watercolor Painting in a Rainy Day in 1989, but the failure of his next two movies led to eight years of unemployment before a comeback with the smash-hit film My Sassy Girl in 2001. He is known for his fondness of love stories set in a mix of different genres.