S.K. Jhung

Director and Screenwriter

Seoul, South Korea

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About S.K.

S.K. Jhung wrote and directed 'Searching for the Elephant'
which was nominated for Grand Prix at the Warsaw International Film Festival 2009.
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His other notable writings include 'The Eternal Child', a Korean Sci-Fi Novel and 'Paraiso', an ethnography on Cuba.

Writes regularly for newspapers and magazines in Korea.

He has a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago '96 and a Masters in Public Policy from Harvard University '00.

Gender:
Male

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Pen-teu-ha-woo-seu ko-kki-ri (2009)
Film (Drama) Director The film depicts the hollow lives of affluent thirty-something young urban professionals in Seoul. The protagonists are three childhood friends, each struggling with a compulsion: schizophrenia, sex addiction, and infidelity. The revelation of their secrets exacerbates their sense of deprivation, and the three friends are inevitably led to a shocking finale when they learn that growing pains are not just distant memories of their youth. Written by Warsaw Film Festival

Education

The University of Chicago
(1993-1996)