Park Kwang-su

Template:Short description Template:Family name hatnote Template:Infobox person Park Kwang-su (born January 22, 1955) is a South Korean filmmaker. He was born in Sokcho, Gangwon Province and grew up in Busan. Park joined the Yallasung Film Group as a student of Fine Arts at Seoul National University. Upon graduation, he founded and led the Seoul Film Group which was dedicated to renewing Korean film culture and closely tied to the student protest movement. The Seoul Film Group was a significant part of the independent film movement and a strong voice speaking out against the military dictatorship. Park studied film at the ESEC film school in Paris, then returned to Korea to work as an assistant director to Lee Chang-Ho. He made his own first feature in 1988, and in 1993 became the first Korean filmmaker to found his own production company.

Park is considered the leader of the "New Korean Cinema" movement and one of Korea's most distinguished filmmakers. His films have garnered critical acclaim and he has received numerous domestic and international awards for his films.

Influence: the emergence of the New Korean Wave

With the formation of new French and German cultural centers in Seoul, screenings of foreign art films were held, which eventually led to the creation of cinema clubs in which film was discussed and studied. Names such as Park Kwang-su, Chung Ji-young, Kim Hong-joon, and a number of other directors, producers and film critics were exposed to a world of international cinema and eventually branched off in order to create films and documentaries that showed Korean culture and history through the viewpoint of the people, predominantly the working class. Some of these short films and documentaries were produced by the Seoul Film Collective which was launched in 1982 and made up of Seoul National University graduates including Park Kwang-su, Jang Sun-woo and other directors. That Summer (1984), which focused on labourers from rural areas working in Seoul, and Suri-se (1984), which touched upon agricultural issues in southwestern Korea, are just two of the works that the Seoul Film Collective produced.

The New Korean Wave was made possible by two developments: a partial relaxation of censorship and the second change in film policy. Due to the relaxation of censorship, filmmakers such as Park Kwang-Su had more freedom to produce films that were originally prohibited by the government during the early censorship periods. The second film policy made it easier for independent producers like Park to enter the Korean film industry. Rather than trying to fill the “quotas” to produce mediocre Korean films, Park and other independent film producers were able to collaborate on quality films that pushed for social change. Without these policy changes, Park Kwang-Su would not have been able to make such films such as Chilsu and Mansu, which was a catalyst to the wave of New Korean Cinema. “While all of Park's movies are firmly rooted in the political history of his country, he belongs to a group of international filmmakers whose work transcends their specific political situations to address, with great artistry, more universal issues of human freedom.”

Filmography

Films

Feature films credits

Year	Title		Credited as				Ref.
	English	Korean	Director	Screenwriter	Producer	Other
1986	Lee Jang-ho's Baseball Team	이장호의 외인구단	Lee Jang-ho	Chi Sang-hak	Lee Jang-ho	Assistant Director
1988	Chilsu and Mansu	칠수와 만수	Park Kwang-su	Choe In-seok	Lee Woo-suk		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1990	Black Republic	그들도 우리처럼		Template:Plainlist		Editor	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1991	Berlin Report	베를린 리포트		Park Kwang-su	Seo Byeong-gi		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1993	To the Starry Island	그 섬에 가고싶다		Park Kwang-su	Park Kwang-su		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1995	A Single Spark	아름다운 청년 전태일		Template:Plainlist	Yoo In-taek		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1996	Beautiful Youth Jeon Tae-il	전태일의 비밀		Park Kwang-su Kim Yun-tae			citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1997	Wild Animals	야생동물 보호구역	Kim Ki-duk	Kim Ki-duk	Kwon Ki-yeong	Executive Producer	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
1999	The Uprising	이재수의 난	Park Kwang-su	Park Kwang-su	Yoo In-taek		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2003	If You Were Me	여섯개의 시선	Template:Plainlist	Template:Plainlist	Lee Hyeon-seung		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2007	Meet Mr. Daddy	눈부신 날에	Park Kwang-su	Park Kwang-su Park Chae-woon	Jeong Hoon-tak Oh Ki-min		citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Short films

Short films credits

Year	Title		Credited as		Ref.
	English	Korean	Director	Screenwriter
1982	Black Republic	그들도 우리처럼	Park Kwang-su	Park Kwang-su	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
	Pannori Arirang	판놀이아리랑 출연진	Template:Plainlist
1999	www.whitelover.com	빤스 벗고 덤벼라	Park Kwang-su	Park Kwang-su	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2000	2000 Digital Short Films by Three Filmmakers 2000	디지털 삼인삼색 2000			citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

See also

• Cinema of Korea

External links

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• Interview with Park Kwang-Su at CineKorea (archived)

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