Kwak Jae-yong (born 22 May 1959) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. He studied physics at Kyung Hee University. He achieved success with his debut film Watercolor Painting in a Rainy Day in 1989, but the failure of his next two movies led to eight years of unemployment before a comeback with the smash-hit film My Sassy Girl in 2001. He is known for his limitless fondness of love stories set in a mix of different genres.

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Kwak Jae-yong
Born	(1959-05-22) 22 May 1959 (age 63)
Alma mater	Kyung Hee University
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul	곽재용
Hanja	郭在容
Revised Romanization	Gwak Jae-yong
McCune–Reischauer	Kwak Chaeyong

Filmography

• Watercolor Painting in a Rainy Day (1989) – director & writer
• Autumn Trip (1992) – director & writer
• Watercolor Painting in a Rainy Day 2 (1993) – director & writer
• My Sassy Girl (2001) – director & writer
• The Romantic President (2002) – writer
• The Classic (2003) – director & writer
• Windstruck (2004) – director & writer
• Ark (2004) – story
• My Girl and I (2005) – writer
• Daisy (2006) – writer
• My Mighty Princess (2008) – director & writer
• Cyborg She (2008) – director & writer
• All About Women (2008) – writer/cameo appearance
• Meet Miss Anxiety (2014) – director
• Crying Out in Love (2016) – director & writer
• Time Renegades (2016) – director
• Colours of Wind (2017) – director & writer
• A Year-End Medley (2021) – director

External links

• Kwak Jae-yong at IMDb
• Kwak Jae-yong at the Korean Movie Database
• Kwak Jae-yong at HanCinema