Beak Woon-hak

Beak Woon-hak
Born	1962 (age 61–62) South Korea
Other names	Baek Woon-hak
Alma mater	Chung-Ang University
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul	백운학
Revised Romanization	Baek Un-hak
McCune–Reischauer	Paek Un-hak

Beak Woon-hak (born 1962) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Beak wrote and directed the thrillers Tube (2003) and The Chronicles of Evil (2015).

Career

Beak was a TV producer and an ad producer, being involved in 50 commercials from 1993 to 1996. In 1996, he was an assistant director on Channel 69 (1996) and three years later, he was involved in the scriptwriting and production of Kang Je-gyu's blockbuster Shiri (1999). His short Waist Bottle won the Grand Prize at the Shin-young Youth Film Festival in 2003.

He made his directorial feature debut with the subway-set thriller Tube (2003).

His second feature The Chronicles of Evil (2015) starring Son Hyun-joo, also a thriller, was a hit with more than 2.1 million admissions. According to Beak, the film succeeds as a thriller despite its familiar plot line is that the film "closely focuses on the emotional lines of the characters rather than the external events themselves." The Korea JoongAng Daily praises the film "is a palm-sweating thrill ride filled with unexpected plot twists - worth the watch in itself."

Filmography

• Channel 69 (1996) - assistant director
• Shiri (1999) - assistant director, script editor
• Waist Bottle (short film, 2003)
• Tube (2003) - director, screenwriter
• The Chronicles of Evil (2015) - director, screenwriter

External links

• Beak Woon-hak at the Korean Movie Database
• Beak Woon-hak at IMDb
• Beak Woon-hak at IMDb
• Beak Woon-hak at HanCinema