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Kang Hyeong-cheol

カン・ヒョンチョル　/　かん・ひょんちょる

Film director from South Korea

January 1, 1974 (age 52)　・　Jeju Island, Jeju Province, South Korea

Jeju Province
film director
screenwriter

My Take

Kang Hyeong-cheol earns my admiration the hard way: his debut, Scandal Makers, was the top-grossing Korean film of its year, and he followed it with Sunny, another massive hit, before taking Best Director at the Grand Bell Awards. That is not luck; it is a director who genuinely understands the temperature of an audience's heart. What I value is that he wins us over not through showy auteurism but through finely observed human warmth, the kind that makes you laugh and then quietly tear up. Born on Jeju Island, I like to imagine that sea-island sensibility feeding the tenderness running through his work.

Overview

Kang Hyeong-cheol is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. His first two films Scandal Makers (2008) and Sunny (2011) have been the highest grossing Korean films of their respective years, and are both among the highest grossing Korean films of all time. Kang won Best Director at the 48th Grand Bell Awards in 2011.

Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.

1. Profile

Name (English): Kang Hyeong-cheol
Name (Japanese): カン・ヒョンチョル
Reading: かん・ひょんちょる
Born: January 1, 1974 (age 52)
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Capricorn / Tiger
Origin: Jeju Island, Jeju Province, South Korea
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: film director / screenwriter

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Yong In University

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

5. Works & records

Category	Title	Role	Year
Notable work	Speedy Scandal	—

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%92%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%83%AB

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