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Filmmaker · South Korea

Yu Hyun-mok

Died in 2009

Yu Hyun-mok was born on 2 July 1925 in Sariwon, in Hwanghae, today in North Korea. According to the catalogue of the Berlinale Forum, he studied Korean literature at Dongguk University from 1947 and was an assistant, notably to Lee Gyu-hwan, before directing his first feature film in 1956. His films, which critics link to Italian neorealism, dealt with social and political subjects that brought him into difficulty with the military regime. He taught film at Dongguk from 1963 and died in Seoul on 28 June 2009.

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