After graduating from Daegu Commercial High School, Park studied Economics on scholarship at Sungkyunkwan University.
Women, sex and repressed urbanites continued to be main themes of Park's movies throughout his career, although his style of expression frequently altered between outrageous and subtle.
It portrays a family's experience as they hold a traditional three-day funeral for an elderly man killed after falling off a bicycle.
After a prolonged absence from the industry, he returned to directing in the early 2000s with controversial, erotic dramas, most notably the explicit Green Chair (2003), which was inspired by the real-life affair between a high school boy and a woman in her 30s.
He also shot low-budget dramas about a man's relationship to sex, including Red Vacance Black Wedding (2011) and B-E-D (2013).