Friday, August 2, 2024

Kim Soo-yong

Kim Soo-yong (1929 –2023) was a South Korean film director.

Kim made his debut in 1958 with A Henpecked Husband. He directed more than 100 movies through 1999, the last being Scent of Love (2000).

He made many popular commercial films over the past decades, such as Sad Story of Self Supporting Child (a.k.a. Sorrow in the Heavens) (1965) as well as some 50 literary movies based on popular Korean novels such as The Sea Village (1965) and Mist (1967).

Kim died on 3 December 2023, at the age of 94.

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