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Ha Gil-jong (April 13, 1941 - February 28, 1979) was a South Korean film director, screenwriter and translator. Most famous for his youth classic, The March of Fools (1975), Ha was also a very prominent social critic in his day.[2][3]

In this Korean name, the family name is Ha.
Ha Gil-jong
Born(1941-04-13)April 13, 1941
Busan, Korea
DiedFebruary 28, 1979(1979-02-28) (aged 37)[1]
South Korea
OccupationFilm director, Screenwriter
Years active1969 - 1979
AwardsBaeksang Arts Awards (1979)
Korean name
Hangul
하길종
Hanja
河吉鐘
Revised RomanizationHa Gil-jong
McCune–ReischauerHa kil-chong

Biography


He was born as the seventh child of a family with nine children in Choryang-dong, Busan, South Korea. His little brother Hah Myung-joong is an actor and film director. Ha lost his mother in 1945 and his father in 1950 when the Korean War occurred. Orphaned, Ha came to live with relatives. In 1956 he went to Seoul with one of his older brothers, and attended Jungdong High School (중동고등학교) in the following year. He befriended Kim Chi-Ha there who later became a famous activist poet.[4]

In 1960, while Ha studied French literature at Seoul National University, he met Kim Seung-ok (김승옥, novelist), Kim Hyun (김현, literature critic), Kim Chi-su (김치수, poet and critic), Lee Cheong-jun(novelist), Yeom Mu-yung (염무웅, literature critic) and Kim Ju-yeon (김주연, literature critic and scholar of German] literature). After graduation, he briefly worked for Shin Film, Ha went to the United States in 1965 to study. Ha studied fine art and photography at San Francisco Academy of Art and entered UCLA graduation school where he acquired both a MA and MFA degree. During the time, he made several short films, and one of which is The Ritual for a Soldier. With the film, he won a Mayer Grant awarded by MGM.[4]

Ha died of a stroke in 1979, aged 37.[5]


Filmography


  1. Byung-tae and Young-ja (병태와 영자 Byeongtae-wa Yeongja) (1979)
  2. The Home of Stars 2 (별들의 고향 2 Byeoldeul-ui gohyang 2) (1978)
  3. The Ascension of Han-ne (한네의 승천 Hanne-ui seungcheon) (1977)
  4. I Am Looking For A Wife (여자를 찾습니다 Yeojaleul chajseubnida) (1976)
  5. The March of Fools (바보들의 행진 Babodeul-ui haengjin) (1975)
  6. Fidelity (수절 Sujeol) (1973)
  7. The Pollen of Flowers (화분 Hwabun) (1972)
  8. The Ritual for a Soldier (병사의 제전 1969)

Awards and nominations



See also



References


  1. "씨네21 : 씨네21 : 대한민국 대표 영화전문매체 -". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2009-04-25.
  2. Kotzathanasis, Panos (26 May 2018). "[Guest Film Review] The March of Fools". Hancinema. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  3. D'Sa, Nigel (28 August 2009). "Pusan to Spotlight 2 Korean Masters". Korean Film Council. Retrieved 20 September 2019.
  4. "Ha Gil-jong (하길종)" (in Korean). KMDb. Retrieved 2009-04-25.
  5. Scanlon, Hayley (17 February 2016). "The March of Fools (바보들의 행진, Ha Kil-Jong, 1975)". Retrieved 20 September 2019.




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