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.
[1] 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.
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