Jason Kim

In this Korean name, the family name is Kim.

Jason Kim (born 1981), birth name Kim Ju-hwan (Korean: 김주환), is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.^[1]

Jason Kim
Born	Kim Ju-hwan 1981 (age 43–44) Seoul, South Korea
Alma mater	Georgetown University
Occupation(s)	Film director, screenwriter
Korean name
Hangul	김주환
Revised Romanization	Gim Juhwan
McCune–Reischauer	Kim Chuhwan

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.^[2]

Filmography

• Goodbye My Smile (2010) - director
• Koala (2013) - director, screenwriter^[3]
• Retriever (short film, 2016) - director
• Midnight Runners (2017) - director, screenwriter
• The Divine Fury (2019) - director, screenwriter^[4]
• My Heart Puppy (2023) - director, screenwriter^[5]
• Bloodhounds (2023) - Netflix original series, director, screenwriter
• Officer Black Belt (2024) - Netflix original film, director, screenwriter