Bae Yong-kyun

Bae Yong-Kyun (Korean: 배용균; born 1951) is a South Korean film director, painter, and professor. He is best known for his 1989 film Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?

In this Korean name, the family name is Bae.
Bae Yong-kyun
Born1951 (age 71–72)
Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk-do, South Korea
NationalityKorean
Occupation(s)film director, painter, professor
Known forWhy Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?
Bae Yong-kyun
Hangul
배용균
Hanja
Revised RomanizationBae Yong-gyun
McCune–ReischauerPae Yonggyun

Life and career

Bae is a painter by training. He holds a doctorate and serves as an art professor in South Korea.

In the early 1980s, Bae began production on the film Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? without any experience in the Korean film industry and using amateur actors. Production lasted for almost ten years, with Bae directing, writing, filming, editing and financing the film by himself.[1] The film won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno Film Festival and was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival.[2] It was the first South Korean film to receive theatrical distribution in the United States.

Bae wrote and directed one other film, The People in White (Korean: 검으나 땅에 희나 백성, romanized: Geomeuna dange huina baekseong, 1995).

References
  1. Maida, Gaetano Kazuo (Summer 1994). "Ox-Herding Pictures". Tricycle. Retrieved 7 April 2023.
  2. "Festival de Cannes: Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East?". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-08-02.


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