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Bong Joon-ho
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South Korean filmmaker (born 1969)
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Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean film director, screenwriter, television producer, and politician. Born in Daegu in 1969, he is a citizen of South Korea and was educated at Yonsei University. He has worked in the film industry since 1999 and is a member of the New Progressive Party and the Writers Guild of America West. Bong speaks Korean and English.
His notable works include *Memories of Murder*, *Snowpiercer*, *Okja*, and *Parasite*. He has received the Palme d'Or, the Academy Award for Best Director, the Ho-Am Prize in the Arts, and the Grand Bell Awards. Additionally, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay. His works are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Parasite
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Directing · Daegu, South Korea
Bong Joon-ho (Korean: 봉준호, Korean pronunciation:[poːŋ tɕuːnho → poːŋdʑunɦo]; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean filmmaker. The recipient of three Academy Awards, his work is characterised by emphasis on social and class themes, genre-mixing, dark comedy, and sudden tone shifts. He first became known to audiences and achieved a cult following with his directorial debut film, the black…
Known for
- Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema — Self2026
- Incoherence — Paperboy's Brother2025
- The Legend of the Palme d’Or Continues — Self2025
- Sohn's Questions — Self2024
- Yellow Door: '90s Lo-fi Film Club — Self2023
- Nattering with Nah — Self2023
- Kultur-King Korea2022
- 보는 것을 사랑한다2021
- Next Entertainment, Visionary — Self2021
- Making Parasite — Self2020
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 146
- Total plays
- 423
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bong+Joon-Ho">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module
· 2018 · cited 18,190x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,787x
- Pseudo-second order model for sorption processes
· 1999 · cited 15,575x
- Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,997x
- A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 9,264x
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Quotes
- “I grew up in a middle-class family. Even in terms of real estate, the house that I grew up in is in the middle – between the semi-basement home and the rich house you see in the film. I was really close with friends and relatives from both classes.”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Place of birth
- Daegu
- Occupation
- television producer
- Educated at
- Yonsei University
- Political party
- New Progressive Party
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- Korean
- Notable work
- The Host
- Image
- Bong Joon Ho - Okja.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- date of birth
- 1969-09-14
- name in native language
- 봉준호
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- start of work period
- 1999-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Bong Joon Ho
- topic has template
- Template:Bong Joon-ho
- Commons category
- Bong Joon-ho
- member of
- Writers Guild of America West
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
Sources (9)
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Encyclopedic overview
Bong Joon Ho (Korean: 봉준호; pronounced [poːŋ tɕuːnho]; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean filmmaker. His work is characterized by emphasis on social and class themes, genre-mixing, dark comedy, and sudden tone shifts. He is the recipient of numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, two British Academy Film Awards, and five Asian Film Awards, as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards. In 2017, he was included on Metacritic's list of the 25 best film directors of the 21st century, and in 2020, he was listed as one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time and among the Bloomberg 50.
Bong first became known to audiences and gained a cult following with his feature directorial debut, the dark comedy film Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000). He later achieved widespread critical success with his subsequent films: the crime thriller Memories of Murder (2003), the monster film The Host (2006), the science fiction action film Snowpiercer (2013), which served as Bong's English-language debut, and the dark comedy thriller Parasite (2019). The latter three are also among the highest-grossing films in South Korea, with Parasite being the highest-grossing South Korean film in history.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bong Joon-ho” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.