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Yoon Jong-bin (Korean: 윤종빈; born December 20, 1979) is a South Korean film director.

Yoon Jong-bin
Born	(1979-12-20) December 20, 1979 (age 42) Busan, South Korea
Education	Chung-Ang University - Filmmaking
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul	윤종빈
Hanja	尹鐘彬
Revised Romanization	Yun Jong-bin
McCune–Reischauer	Yun Jongbin

Career

Yoon Jong-bin's Chung-Ang University graduation thesis film was The Unforgiven, which portrayed masculine codes in the Korean military with honesty and sensitivity. And despite its rough edges due to technical limitations and a low budget, the film was a smash hit at the 2005 Busan International Film Festival and won several awards, including the NETPAC. It went on to travel to a number of festivals, winning awards and international critical acclaim.[1][2]

His sophomore effort Beastie Boys (also known as The Moonlight of Seoul) showed another side of men -- male hosts who serve female clients in discreet salons tucked into the affluent fashion districts of southern Seoul.[3][2]

In his third film Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time, Yoon tackled corruption among prosecutors and customs officers and their collusion with the mob in 1980-1990s Busan.[4][5] Unlike his first two films, Yoon's gangster saga was popular at the box office and became one of the biggest domestic hits of 2012.[6][7]

Yoon further explored the themes of injustice and violence in his fourth film Kundo: Age of the Rampant, a tale of 19th-century Joseon bandits who waged war against the nobility and corrupt government officials.[8] When asked where he drew his inspiration from, Yoon answered, "I tapped into movies that I used to love as a child. Rather than making an intellectual film, I wanted to get hearts racing."[9] By not giving the protagonist "hero-like characteristics," Yoon said he wanted to say through the film that "it is not the special or talented people, but very ordinary people who can change the world, especially when gathered en masse."[10]

Yoon has worked with close friend and fellow Chung-Ang University alumnus Ha Jung-woo in all four of his features.

Filmography

Feature films

Year	Film	Director	Screenwriter	Producer	Actor
2004	Identification of a Man	Yes	Yes
2005	The Unforgiven	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
2008	The Moonlight of Seoul	Yes	Yes
	Nowhere to Turn				Yes
2012	Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time	Yes	Yes		Yes
2013	The Berlin File				Yes
2014	Kundo: Age of the Rampant	Yes		Yes
2015	A Violent Prosecutor			Yes
2016	A Quiet Dream				Yes
2018	The Spy Gone North	Yes	Yes
2019	Money			Yes
2020	The Closet			Yes

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2022	Narco-Saints	Yes	Yes		Netflix original series

Awards

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Results	Ref.
2018	26th Korea Culture and Entertainment Awards	Best Director	The Spy Gone North	Won	[11]
	2018 Korea Best Star Awards	Director Award		Won	[12]

References

External links

• Yoon Jong-bin at Cyworld
• Yoon Jong-bin at the Korean Movie Database
• Yoon Jong-bin at IMDb
• Yoon Jong-bin at HanCinema
• Yoon Jong-bin at Korean Film Biz Zone

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