Bong Joon-Ho

Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean film director and screenwriter.

He is a graduate of the Korean Academy of Film Arts. Bong directed multiple critically-acclaimed short films before his feature film debut Barking Dogs Never Bite in 2000. For his 2003 film Memories of Murder, he won the South Korean film industry's Grand Bell Award for best film director. He is probably best known as the director of The Host, South Korea's most successful film of all time (as of May 2007).

Like another Korean director Park Chan-wook, Bong is a partisan of Democratic Labor Party, a minor leftist party in South Korea.