Park Hoon-jung

Park Hoon-jung (, born in 1975) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. Park first gained recognition in the Korean film industry for his screenwriting, having written the screenplays for directors Kim Jee-woon's I Saw the Devil (2010) and Ryoo Seung-wan's The Unjust (2010). In 2011, he made his directorial debut with the period film The Showdown, and his second film, the gangster epic New World (2013), was a critical and commercial success. Early career Park was born in 1975. Since the late 1980s, in his teens, he was already a Cinephile. In 1991, when he was in his second year of high school, he set a future goal to be a film director. However, He enrolled to natural science department in college. After repeating his first college year twice, he enlisted to mandatory military service. He then applied for a non commissioned officer and was discharged as a sergeant five years later. After five years of military leave, he naturally dropped out of college. After his military discharge, Park participated in a game scenario contest held by the Venture Association. He was elected and joined a game company as a special recruit, working on game scenarios. However, the company changed its business course to something else, and Park started another game company with the people he had worked with. Unfortunately, the business didn't go well. In the meantime, he won a synopsis contest hosted by Sidus HQ, which opened doors for him in the film industry.