Kim Young-tak (; born 1976) is a South Korean

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

and

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. Kim wrote and directed the

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'' Hello Ghost'' (2010). The comedy was a local hit - the 9th highest grossing Korean film in 2010, and won him the Best New Director (Film) at the 47th

Baeksang Arts Awards The Baeksang Arts Awards (), also known as the Paeksang Arts Awards, are awards for excellence in film, television and theatre in South Korea. The awards were introduced in 1965 by Chang Key-young, the founder of the newspaper ''Hankook Ilbo'', ...

in 2011. In 2018, Kim released the thriller novel ''Gomtang'' about a timetraveller who travels from 2063 to Busan of 2019 and is confronted with series of murders there. While initially published online, it was also published physically in two volumes.

Filmography

*''A Bold Family'' (2005) -

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*'' BA:BO'' (2008) -

*'' Hello Ghost'' (2010) -

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Slow Video ''Slow Video'' () is a 2014 South Korean comedy film written and directed by Kim Young-tak, starring Cha Tae-hyun and Nam Sang-mi. It is the second Korean film to be fully financed by American studio 20th Century Fox. Plot Yeo Jang-boo possesse ...

'' (2014) - director, screenwriter

Bibliography

* Gomtang (곰탕, 2018) * Gomtang 2 (곰탕 2, 2018)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * * 1976 births Living people South Korean film directors South Korean screenwriters {{SouthKorea-film-director-stub