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Park Chan-wook
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South Korean film director, screenwriter and film producer (born 1963)
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Park Chan-wook is a South Korean screenwriter, film director, film producer, and film critic. Born in Seoul on August 23, 1963, he began his work period in 1992. He is a member of the New Progressive Party and speaks Korean. Chan-wook was educated at Sogang University and has one child.
His notable works include *Sympathy for Lady Vengeance*, *Oldboy*, *Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance*, and *Joint Security Area*. He has received the Golden Lion, the Grand Jury Prize of the Venice Film Festival, the Jury Prize, and the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix. Additionally, he was nominated for the European Film Award for Best Non-European Film. His works are held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art.
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Film & TV
Directing · Seoul, South Korea
Park Chan-wook (Korean: 박찬욱; pronounced [pak̚tɕʰanuk̚]; born 23 August 1963) is a South Korean filmmaker and former film critic. Widely regarded as a leading figure in South Korean and 21st-century world cinema, he is known for films that blend crime, mystery, and thriller elements with other genres. His films are noted for their cinematography, framing, black humour, and often brutal subject…
Known for
- Mr. Kim Goes to the Cinema — Self2026
- Cérémonie de palmarès du 79e Festival de Cannes — Self2026
- Han Kang Chronicles: A Tale of Seven Lives — Self2025
- New Old Boy : Dir. Park — Self2025
- 인생이 영화2025
- I Haven’t Done Anything — Self2023
- Nattering with Nah2023
- Kultur-King Korea2022
- Modern Korea — Self (archive footage)2019
- Making of The Handmaiden2018
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 160
- Total plays
- 585
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The ERA‐Interim reanalysis: configuration and performance of the data assimilation system
· 2011 · cited 20,708x
- CBAM: Convolutional Block Attention Module
· 2018 · cited 18,179x
- Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation Using Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks
· 2017 · cited 16,959x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,964x
- ROBINS-I: a tool for assessing risk of bias in non-randomised studies of interventions
· 2016 · cited 15,446x
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1963-08-23 ) 23 August 1963 (age 62) , Seoul , South Korea
- Other name
- Bakridamae ( 박리다매 )
- Alma mater
- Sogang University , Seoul, South Korea
- Occupations
- Film director producer screenwriter
- Years active
- 1988–present
- Works
- Filmography bibliography
- Spouse
- Kim Eun-hee ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1990 )
- Relatives
- Park Chan-kyong (brother)
- Awards
- Full list
- Honours
- Bogwan Order of Cultural Merit (2002), Eun-gwan Order of Cultural Merit (2022), Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2026)
- Hangul
- 박찬욱
- Hanja
- 朴贊郁
- Rr
- Bak Chanuk
- Mr
- Pak Ch'anuk
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Park
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- South Korea
- Place of birth
- Seoul
- Occupation
- director
- Educated at
- Sogang University
- Political party
- New Progressive Party
- Languages spoken
- Korean
- Notable work
- Joint Security Area
- Field of work
- film
- Image
- 박찬욱 - 어쩔수가없다.jpg
- Height
- 1.69
- Number of children
- 1
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- Commons category
- Park Chan-wook
- date of birth
- 1963-08-23
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Park Chan-wook
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Non-European Film
- name in native language
- 박찬욱 (Park Chan-wook)
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Encyclopedic overview
Park Chan-wook (Korean: 박찬욱; pronounced [pak̚ tɕʰanuk̚]; born 23 August 1963) is a South Korean filmmaker and former film critic. Widely regarded as a leading figure in South Korean and 21st-century world cinema, he is known for films that blend crime, mystery, and thriller elements with other genres. His films are noted for their cinematography, framing, black humor, and often brutal subject matter.
After two unsuccessful films in the 1990s which he has since largely disowned, Park came to prominence with his acclaimed third directorial effort, Joint Security Area (2000), which became the highest-grossing film in South Korean history at the time and which Park himself prefers to be regarded as his directorial debut. Using his newfound creative freedom, he would go on to direct the films forming his unofficial The Vengeance Trilogy: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002), a financial failure that polarized critics, followed by Oldboy (2003) and Lady Vengeance (2005), both of which received critical acclaim and were financially successful. Oldboy in particular is regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, and helped establish Park as a well-known director outside his native country.
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