Jason Kim

In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.

Jason Kim
Born	Kim Ju-hwan 1981 (age 42–43) Seoul, South Korea
Alma mater	Georgetown University
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul	김주환
Revised Romanization	Gim Ju-hwan
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Chu-hwan

Jason Kim (born Kim Ju-hwan on 1981) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

Career

Kim, born in 1981, majored in international politics from Georgetown University in the United States. He served for three years as an interpreter in the Republic of Korea Air Force before joining Showbox's promotion department and later the film investment department. He dreams of making his own films and has made in his spare time youth drama films Goodbye My Smile (2010) and Koala (2013). He later quit his job to pursue his career in filmmaking. He spent three years working on the script of his first mainstream film Midnight Runners (2017) which became a hit in South Korea and was also screened overseas.

Filmography

• Goodbye My Smile (2010) - director
• Koala (2013) - director, screenwriter
• Retriever (short film, 2016) - director
• Midnight Runners (2017) - director, screenwriter
• The Divine Fury (2019) - director, screenwriter
• My Heart Puppy (2023) - director, screenwriter
• Bloodhounds (2023) - Netflix original series, director, screenwriter
• Officer Black Belt (2024) - Netflix original film, director, screenwriter

External links

• Jason Kim at IMDb 
• Jason Kim at HanCinema